If you think that people in the past were less eccentric than they are today, remember their traditions and the fashion of the time. It will become clear to you that modern people are not even that strange.
If we examine the past from the point of view of modern society, are habits that our ancestors had, extremely unusual. They probably will future generations thus laugh at our habits. Of course, we cannot do this with certainty to claim, but you can read 8 bizarre things our ancestors did, and make sure that today's world is not upside down as we may think.
8. Carriage for bathing
People in the 18th and 19th centuries did not know beaches, as we know it today, so they had to use bathing machines, which look like carriages. These were pushed into the water, and the bathers swam without being observed by prying eyes.
7. 'Living Alarm Clocks'
From the middle of the 18th century until the 1950s, people knew the profession 'live alarm clocks' – the task of the person who performed this profession, was yes in the morning it wakes up people who had to get up early. They did this in different ways. It is not entirely clear who woke up the 'living alarm clocks', but there is a belief that they did they didn't even go to sleep before work.
6. Shoes with a high heel chopines
Chopines, also known as pianella, are high platform heels that were off the floor raised to about 50 centimeters. Women wore them to prevent to get their clothes dirty. Because it was difficult to walk in them, they needed staff assistance.
5. Suits for boys
From the 16th century to the 1920s, they had to boys between the ages of four and eight to wear dresses. And they did it because costs – there are dresses easier to outgrow than other pieces of clothing. This one tradition was also popular in royal families.
4. Bleeding against all diseases
This way treatment was popular until beginning of the 20th century. Bleeding was performed for treatment of every disease and often caused more harm than good, as this procedure is even more difficult for the patient weakened.
3. Rocks as toilet paper
The list things, which people used before the invention of toilet paper, is very long – plant leaves, corn cobs, coconut shells, sheep's wool, mushrooms... But the ancient Greeks are the most of us surprised – stones, pebbles or pieces of pottery were used as toilet paper.
2. Postmortem photographs
Another custom, which is very unusual, but in the 19th century served as a way, how to preserve the memory of deceased loved ones. As a rule, the bodies of the deceased were placed in such a way that looked alive in the photo – they sat in natural poses, eyes were drawn on the eyelids.
1. Biphasic sleep
Europeans who lived in the middle ages, were the initiators biphasic sleep. The first sleep started at sunset and lasted until midnight, when people woke up and stayed awake since two to three hours. Some prayed or read during this time, others spent this time with family. Then they went to another sleep that lasted until sunrise.
