Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and yesterday was a sad day.
The historic heart of Paris, the Notre Dame Cathedral, caught fire.
The building began construction in the late 12th Century, making it one of the oldest
buildings in a city in the world.
While the spire collapsed and the roof was severely damaged structurally the Notre Dame
Cathedral still stands and the fire has stopped burning.
Thank goodness.
To pay our respects to this beautiful building, we are going to be talking the Top 10 Scary
Notre Dame Urban legends – before we get into the video, I want to ask if you guys
have ever been to France, and if you haven’t, what is the oldest building you have visited.
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10 - The Fire Starter We are at an interesting point in history
where we can pinpoint the birth of an urban legend.
Each major fire in history – The Great Fire Of London in 1666 and the Chicago Fire of
1871, for example – have their own urban legends attached …. It is said that the
fire of London started at a Thomas Farriner’s bakery and the Chicago fire was said to have
been started by a cow kicking a lantern over…
What will they say of the 2019 Notre Dame fire?
So far terrorism and arson have been ruled out, but that hasn’t stopped tongues wagging
that the fire was an act of anarchy.
It is thought that the fire broke out at 6.50pm in the attic of the cathedral, likely because
of restoration work – although reports in French media say that there wasn’t any work
taking place at the time as the contractors leave the property at 5pm.
As of the scripting of this video, the origin of the fire is unknown, which of course has
lead people to speculate that it may have untoward origins….
A church in the heart of a city catches fire….
Some people immediately blame a devil.. leaving or otherwise.
9 - The Hunchback When most people think of Notre Dame, we think
of the Hunchback.
Originally a gothic novel by Victor Hugo about a deformed Bell Ringer of the Cathedral who
falls in love with a Gypsy Girl who takes pity on him.
Long story short, a bad member of the Clergy, Follo, gets jealous and decided to hang her.
Quasimodo dies of starvation as he cradles her body for weeks until he can cradle no
more.
Disney takes a bit of a softer approach… but The Esmeralda, Quasimodo and Follo drama
is still present and correct.
As a novel and a Disney movie, a lot of people assumed that the story of the Hunchback of
Notre Dame isn’t real… but it turns out that it is based on a real life man.
The memoirs of 19th Century British Sculptor, Henry Simpson was at the cathedral working
on a renovation project when he met a hunched stonemason who loved his work but shyed away
from contact with others.
He was given the nickname Mon Le Bossu, which means the hunchback in French…suggesting
he wasn’t well treated by others, like in the story.
8 - The Pagan City Below Urban legend has it that the Cathedral of
Notre Dame was built on the ruins of a pagan city, which may be why it is such a great
area of mysticism.
Paganism has been associated with witchcraft and satanism, and although I think that is
kind of nonsense, a lot of people are very distrustful of the old religion.
Anyway, it seems that one of the holiest buildings in the world, the Notre Dame Cathedral was
built on a sacred sight dating back to roman times…the secrets that lay buried under
the floorboards, well… we can inly imagine.. but some say this is what gives the building
an air of magic.
7 - The Spikes This story isn’t pretty….
One of the many ghost stories surrounding the Cathedral of Notre Dame involves a mysterious
woman who came to visit the Cathedral in 1882.
It seems that she requested to climb one of the towers, but she was refused because she
was unchaperoned….
God forbid a lady climb tower alone….
But actually…in this instance, the guards made the right call in denying her entry,
albeit for the wrong reasons.
The persistent young woman found an elderly lady to accompany her, but when she reached
the top, she revealed her true intentions – she jumped from the top and was impaled
on spikes below.
It is said that her ghost has been witnessed among the towers gargoyles – frightening
people who think there is a real woman on the roof.
6 - Baba Vagna France, or more specifically Paris, has undoubtedly
had a rough ride of things in the past few years.
Charlie Hebdo, The Bataclan murders, and more recently the civil unrest in the community
with the rise of Gillet Jeaune, militant anti government protestors.
And now… a fire literally striking the heart of Paris?
The city of love is fast becoming a city of pain… but Parisians will not be cowed!
They keep on rising up stringer each time, as the world shows them their support.
That being said, many have claimed that the lasted blow to Paris is in line with the blind
mystic Baba Vanga’s predictions for country.
Baba Vanga accurately predicted 9/11 and the death of Princess Diana, and she has also
said that France will fall to a Muslim Brotherhood and that Europe will become a wasteland.
She also said that humans will develop a freeze ray and find a new energy source in Venus…and
Mars will attack us one day…so, I don’t know… pinch of salt anyone?!
5 - The Organist Louis Vierne was a revered composer and organist,
but something about his life seemed to have been kissed by misfortune.
Despite having a blossoming career in music, having been awarded the title of lead organist
at the Notre Dame cathedral, he was marked tragedy.
His eyesight plagued him, indeed he nearly lost it as a result of Glaucoma…he had an
accident during which he nearly had to have his leg amputated, but the real tragedy involved
his children.
His son Andre died in 1913 of tuberculosis and four years later, his eldest son Jacques
killed himself.
This deeply effected Louis, who wrote a piece for his dead son.
Louis Vierene died at the Cathedral of Notre Dame while he was playing his 1750th Organ
concert.
It is said he had a heart attack at the keys shortly after performing the ode to his dead
son.
The organist is said to haunt the vast organ of Notre Dame to this day.
Not all of the drama takes place IN Notre Dame, but with the Cathedral in the background…
and the Cathedral de Notre Dame served as the iconic backdrop to one of the more enduring
legends of Paris – we have the Human Butcher at number 4
It seems an opportunistic butcher operated on the Rue Chanoinesse, at the base of the
cathedral.
Often people who could not afford to get married inside the cathedral would do so along this
street with the holy building in the background.
Because of the footfall brought around by the landmark, the Rue Chanoinesse was busy
and plenty of people were milling around…plenty of people to prey on.
This is exactly what a local butcher did.
He would slit the throats of people caught alone at night, often students of Notre Dame.
He would the use the corpses for their meat, filling his pies with them.
Sound familiar?
It is said that the butcher was also a popular pastry chef who made pies for high flying
Parisians, including King Charles the 6th.
It is said that eventually the police found out what was happening, they found the cellar
and the tools used to skin the corpses and cut up their flesh.
The butcher confessed and was burned alive in a cage for his crimes.
It is said that this story served as the original inspiration for Sweeny Todd.
3 - The Devil Notre Dame Cathedral was built over the course
of nearly 200 hundred years between 1163 and 1345.
Being a cathedral, it is obviously a holy space… but perhaps it isn’t quote so holy
as we think.
It may have partially been the work of the devil.
The Cathedral de Notre Dame is beautiful in many ways, and one of the most obvious ways
lay in its intricate ironwork.
Monsieur Biscornet was a young metal smith who wanted to prove himself and probably also
find fame.
Biscornet was tasked with providing the metal work for the beautiful Christian monument
in the heart of Paris.
Well…. he did it.
He slaved away by the hot fires of his metal workshop and created something breathtaking…in
record time.
In the middle ages, to create what Biscornet created was quite the feat.
But the story goes that the man was struggling , he wasn’t sleeping, he wasn’t eating…until
one night there was a knock at his door.
It was the devil himself come to bargain with the metalworker.
It is said that the devil answered Biscornet’s plea for help and created the work for him,
in exchange for his soul.
It is said the man was found unconscious on the floor, with two completed ornate doors
beside him…
finish as if by magic.
The rumours spread like the wildfire of hell itself, not helped by the fact that biscornet
died shortly after his project was complete.
Some even say that Biscornet was the devil himself.
Why?
Well… the blue is in his name – bis or bi means two…cornet means horns.
Two horns.
DEVIL!
The legend continues at number 2 The Devil’s Doors and the Holy Water
So what of the ornate doors then?
They are indeed still admired 700 hundred years after they were installed…but on the
grand opening of the grand Notre Damn Cathedral…well… they wouldn’t budge.
An ancient legend has transformed into a more enduring modern one… the doors are said
to be cursed.
As the doors were installed the locks refused to work….
Until priests threw Holy Water on the door… then it is said the locks sprang forth and
opened by themselves!
Hmm.
1 - The Crown of Thorns Many of us will know the story of Jesus.
The holy man and son of god was said to have been crucified by the romans, but not before
he was mocked, and forced to carry his own cross through the streets while wearing a
crown made of thorns that cut into his head, and made him bleed.
It is said that he was still wearing that crown when he was nailed to the cross, and
indeed he died with it still on his head.
So what happened to that crown?
Well, according to the French, it is housed in the Notre Dame Cathedral.
So, what happened to it in the fire?
Well it is said that Jean Marc Fournier, a French Priest who also helped the wounded
in the Bataclan Attack, rushed in to the burning building to save the 2000 year old relic,
along with the Blessed Sacrament.
It is said that other relics were saved when firefighters formed a human chain inside the
burning building.
French President Emmanuel Macron said : the worst had been avoided thanks to firefighters
"although the battle is not yet totally won".
He vowed that "we will rebuild Notre-Dame together".
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