He was 17 when he started chopping heads! Didn't stop till he was in his eighties. Wtf!
这哥们儿17岁就开始砍脑袋了!一直干到八十多岁都没停。我勒个去!
FitLaw41,041 赞2025/8/4
Crazy that back then you could make a living just chopping heads. Everything has gotten so complicated now.
离谱的是,那时候光靠砍脑袋就能谋生。现在干啥都变得太复杂了。
Icy_Consideration409495 赞2025/8/3
Good union job too. Great benefits.
而且还是工会编制的好差事。
Velorian-Steel186 赞2025/8/5
He had a real axe to grind about the work equipment though
不过他对干活用的装备确实一肚子怨气(双关:axe to grind 意为“有私人恩怨/抱怨”)。
kansai2kansas85 赞2025/8/4
He was definitely ahead of his peers at the time
当年他绝对是走在同龄人前面的(双关:ahead 意为“领先/身首异处”)。
PistachioOfLiverTea33 赞2025/8/3
He had a good head on his shoulders and never stuck his neck out
他脑子挺灵光的,而且从不乱出头(双关:stuck his neck out 意为“冒险/被砍头”)。
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He was head and shoulders above the rest.
他确实比其他人高出一大截(双关:head and shoulders above 意为“出类拔萃/头和肩膀)。
Appropriate_Fly_671115 赞2025/8/4
Always knew how to split his workload down.
他总能把工作拆解得井井有条(双关:split 意为“拆分/劈开”)。
CakeSeaker17 赞2025/8/4
He sharpened his people skills.
他把搞人际关系那套练得炉火纯青(双关:sharpened 意为“磨练/磨快”)。
Telita4552 赞2025/8/5
Not sure about that. He had to chop heads well past retirement age to make ends meet
这我可不敢苟同。他都退休好久了还得接着砍头才能勉强糊口。
Legitimate-Lab717344 赞2025/8/5
Maybe he just had a love of the game.
也许他纯粹就是热爱这份事业吧。
JohnnyDerpington49 赞2025/8/4
Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life
做你热爱的事,那你这辈子就没一天是在“上班”。
Colt-AR16 赞2025/8/3
Catholic church is one of the best!!!
天主教会简直牛逼炸了!!!
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He averaged 7.5 per year. What did he do with the rest of his time?
他一年平均就干7.5次。剩下的时间他都干啥去了?
Gwave72118 赞2025/8/4
Started building super cars
开始搞起了超级跑车
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Gwave7221 赞2025/8/5
0- beheaded in 2.0 seconds
0到斩首,只需2.0秒。
Dangerous_Stretch_6739 赞2025/8/3
Umbrella maker according to Wikipedia
维基百科上说他是做雨伞的。
Glittering_Fennel97337 赞2025/8/4
So he protected heads during his off time? Wild lol
所以他闲暇时间还得负责保护大家的脑袋?这也太野了吧哈哈哈。
Guilty_Bathroom_302359 赞2025/8/3
Sharpened the blade!
把刀磨得快一点呗!
ScissorsPalace24 赞2025/8/4
There was a book on a German executioner i read a long time ago. I can't recall the title, but remember that it was based on his diary. This executioner lived around the 1500s, but considering the Catholic Church still hasn't entirely left the Middle Ages (I was born into it), and that Europe developed unevenly in many parts of the continent, I can't imagine much had changed about the job. Chopping off heads was only part of his job. He also served as a chief torturer (or inquisitioner), and was required to know a lot about human anatomy so he didn't kill his suspects. They weren't completely backwards either, and knew to a certain extent that a person being tortured will say just about anything, so he had to be a savvy inquisitor. But where Catholics differed in their practice of torture (especially at the height of the Inquisition) was in the belief that they were doing the poor person a favor by torturing the evil out of them (if your eye offends you, pluck it out and all that). The executioner was shunned by his community due to his practice, but he took pride in what he did. You need skills to chop a head off properly, so there was a lot of practice involved and even a sort of apprenticeship. And because of his medical knowledge, he served as a sort of poor man's surgeon at times. So this made the executioner a rather indispensable member of society despite the rather barbaric (by our standards) nature of his main line of work.
Well he worked for the pope so probably church shit
反正他给教皇干过活,估计搞的都是教会那一套破事儿。
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Executioners could be quite busy especially if the convict needs to be interrogated before the execution. You gotta give him hope without making him relax. Also an executioner would make a good personal guard
A little off-topic but I read on here once that executioners were typically a job that was passed down in the family, and if I remember correctly, the families would attempt to marry families of other executioners
Executioners were pretty much social outcasts although well paid. They would often form tight-knit family units
行刑官虽然工资高,但基本算是社会边缘人。他们通常只能抱团形成那种紧密的家族关系。
Navandis_Gaming17 赞2025/8/4
It wasn't that they attempted to marry in the same job field, they were literally oucasts and lowest of the low in terms of social status. Nobody in their right mind would marry into an executioner family. On the flip side, it was a well paid job as not many would willingly go into that line of business.
That’s not really how it worked though. This wasn’t so much a job as a class of people. The executioner, and their families, were viewed as a different class of people and tainted. Touching the executioner or their family, eating with them, interacting with them, was very taboo and then you were tainted as well. They would shop at different times, go into public early in the day or late at night. The trade was therefore kept within families.
Imagine how chill of a job that must be. If my math is correct that’s only approximately 8 executions per year.
想象一下这工作得有多清闲。如果我没算错,一年也就差不多8次行刑吧。
Specialist-634340 赞2025/8/3
He probably did a lot of torturing between executions. I think torture was a combo job. edit: I was wrong, he was an umbrella maker and the executing people thing was a side gig.
他在行刑间隙估计没少干折磨人的勾当。我觉得“行刑官兼拷问官”这俩职位是捆绑销售的。
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Crazy, his side gig was decapitating humans. Wonder how his first few executions went
太疯狂了,他的副业竟然是砍人脑袋。真好奇他头几次行刑是怎么过来的。
SATerp29 赞2025/8/3
He probably sold a lot of umbrellas to the people in the front of the attendees, sorta like with Gallagher.
他估计卖了不少伞给前排观众,有点像 Gallagher 那种路数。
DickUrkel6918 赞2025/8/3
People hated the town executioner for killing their loved ones. You'd always have a target on your back and have to live a non social life.
Wonder which crimes merited being beaten to death; I've never heard of that method before.
好奇什么样的罪行会被判杖毙;我以前从没听说过这种刑罚。
gentlybeepingheart36 赞2025/8/3
I looked it up. I'm too lazy (and poor) to get into actual academic databases for this, but according to [this Wikipedia page ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_the_Papal_States) * multiple murders
* robbing a shopkeeper
* murders and arson
* murder and robbery
* murder and larceny
* "treacherous murder" All the murders seem to be a variety of types of victims (Relatives, shopkeepers, "a jew," pregnant wife, civil servants) so I'm not sure what the methodology of determining the type of execution method actually was. Other murderers during the same time were drawn and quartered or simply hanged, so it might have just been up to whoever did the sentencing.
A very long life for the time, and even by today's standards. The devil indeed takes care of his own...
在那个年代,这绝对是高寿了,就算按现在的标准看也一样。恶魔确实会护着他自己的人啊……
ashleyshaefferr40 赞2025/8/4
No people quite regularly lived to that age. The high rate of infant mortality really skewed stats
并没有多少人真能活到那个岁数。
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...and impoverished people, which were the majority
……还有占人口绝大多数的穷苦人。
Mister_Time_Traveler173 赞2025/8/4
Add on: on display at the Rome Museum of Criminology at Via del Gonfalone Mastro Titta was barred from entering "the city" (he lived in Trastevere) except for those times when his services were desired. Ostensibly, this was for his own protection, to guard him from the attentions of vengeful relatives, but also, undoubtedly, there was fear, superstition, and distaste for his occupation.
补充一下:罗马犯罪博物馆(位于 Via del Gonfalone)里有相关展品。
马斯特罗·蒂塔(Mastro Titta)被禁止进入“市区”(他住在特拉斯提弗列),除非是需要他“出工”的时候。表面上,这是为了保护他,防止他被寻仇的家属盯上,但毫无疑问,人们对他这个职业也充满恐惧、迷信和厌恶。
hollowcrowds30 赞2025/8/5
I swear I saw this on display in Castel Sant'Angelo a couple of years ago. You can see (what looks like) blood spatter on it still.
我发誓几年前我在圣天使堡见过这玩意儿。你甚至还能看到(看起来像)血迹溅在上面。
Natural-Ad558216 赞2025/8/3
It was completely white when he started the job!
他刚干这行的时候,这东西可是全白的!
pirsq154 赞2025/8/3
That's 1 execution every 7 weeks for 69 years. Pretty cushy job...
算下来69年里平均每7周执行一次死刑。这份工作挺清闲的啊……
Yeetball8684 赞2025/8/3
Depending on the region, they were generally seen as pariahs in normal life and had to carry out torture as well. Not as cushy as it seems.
根据地区不同,他们平时基本都被当成过街老鼠,还得兼职搞刑讯逼供。没你想的那么清闲。
7elevenses36 赞2025/8/4
"had to"
“被迫”
NoWater859517 赞2025/8/4
Your profile pic matches that comment so well.😆
你的头像和这条评论简直绝配。😆
mh98540 赞2025/8/4
Executioners did a lot more than just kill people. A typical executioner was also responsible for all the jobs deemed necessary-but-morally-dirty. Executioners were responsible for interrogating/torturing suspected criminals, carrying out public punishments other than death (floggings, pillory, etc.), handling the bodies of people who had committed suicide, carrying out medical procedures, and more. If you want to read about it, *The Faithful Executioner* by Joel Harrington is a great resource.
I never knew the pope had an executioner. Can’t say I’m surprised, though. Thanks for sharing. This is fascinating.
我从没听说过教皇还有个专职刽子手。不过说实话,我一点儿也不觉得意外。
BaidenFallwind51 赞2025/8/4
The Vatican still has a jail even today, but it's usually for temporary holding. Sentences are usuall carried out in Italy as per an arrangement.
梵蒂冈直到今天都还有监狱呢,不过通常只是用来临时关押。根据协议,刑罚大多还是交给意大利那边执行。
Effective_Judgment4134 赞2025/8/4
That's not the pope's personal executioner, that title is misleading. This was the executioner of the Papal States which consisted of large parts of what is now central Italy.
Why would the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, need an executioner? (This is a rhetorical question)
堂堂天主教会的领袖教皇,凭什么需要个刽子手?
ZgBlues31 赞2025/8/4
The Pope was not just the head of the Catholic Church, he was (and still is) the head of state of his own country, which functioned just like any other monarchy. This collection of territories in central Italy were called [Papal States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States) and they lasted for 11 centuries, before disappearing in 1870 with the unification of Italy. Around 1850s these Papal States had a population of some 3.1 million people, and they had capital punishment for a variety of crimes, just like all the other European countries at the time. The unusual thing about Bugatti was his longevity and his body count - the guy spent 68 years on the job, and killed 500+ people, at a time when most other state executioners would execute maybe 2-3 people per year.
Get out of here with your historical context. You're ruining a perfectly good opportunity for redditors to be angry about Christianity, damnit!
别在这儿甩你的历史背景了。妈的,你把大家在红迪(Reddit)上喷基督教的兴致全给毁了!
flossanotherday39 赞2025/8/3
Express tickets to god
通往上帝的特快专递。
Subject-Vermicelli5231 赞2025/8/5
Fun fact, Giovanni's robe was white when he started.
有趣的小知识:乔瓦尼刚入行的时候,那件长袍可是白色的。
Adventurous-Sky935914 赞2025/8/4
That’s only like 7 beheadings a year.
那也就一年大概砍7个头吧。
SaltCuresHam14 赞2025/8/3
What a pro life institution
真是一家“珍爱生命”的机构啊。
Temulo12 赞2025/8/4
The village
村里人。
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Nofucksgivenin202110 赞2025/8/4
If you do the math, he wasn’t this terrifying executioner. If he started when he was 17 and continued through till his, let’s go with just 80, that’s 22.995 days of work,divided by his executions at 514, that brings us to only one every 44.7 days- let’s end on 45 days. So every 45 days or so he lopped off a head. If I’m off on my math someone correct me cuz math is not my strong suit. I’m a makeup artist. I color for a living. Edit/ cuz now I wanna know please someone correct me, I am probably wrong. I am always wrong.