The most horrifying pastime in history

For slaves to fight with lions, tigers, or even dogs, . you will have to shudder with these deadly pastimes!

The most savage pastimes in the world

1. Death game

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Gladiator fights with lions.

This is an extremely popular pastime in the Roman period. You may have seen it in similar scenes!

The extremely violent and brutal game was organized in a large scale in the Roman arena with crowded audiences filled with deadly bloody scenes. They shouted, excited at the bloodshed of 'players'.

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Interesting games against people are always interesting to viewers.

This game is considered the most brutal pastime in history and lasts for hundreds of years. Players are called gladiator (gladiator), they are slaves, prisoners of war, criminals . and forced to join this death game.

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The war between people and tigers.

The most frightening is the form of competition between gladiators with different types of beasts (lions, tigers, .). They were only armed with simple weapons and had to fight to survive or die in this environment.

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People and animals struggle to survive.

A truly scary survival battle is considered to be the most interesting hobby (like football now)!

Although it is a pastime, its price is extremely expensive, changing the life of the player. In a war there can only be one winner, so they must fight to death.

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There is always someone to die.

The reward for the winner is just a bit of gold and fame, but they will have to plunge into another game and at some point will become a loser.

A barbaric game that makes fun for kings and aristocrats makes us feel goose bumps.

2. Viking cricket

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The Vikings are the most aggressive and aggressive people in the world.

This is a Viking race game, a race of people known for the most violent history. Therefore their pastime is equally horrifying.

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Viking gladiators.

This game is similar to the rules of today's cricket game, only the loser will be deprived of the life by the winner.

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This game is extremely dangerous and the loser will have to lose his life.

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There is a story about two Egil and Thord soldiers who fought Skallagrim for a day and ran out of strength, they were killed soon after.

3. Ullamaliztli of the Aztecs

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A ball match.

Aztec civilization has always hidden mysteries until today, this culture also exists an extremely scary game created by the Aztecs themselves: Ullamaliztli.

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The player tries to put the ball into the goal.

This game is almost like basketball, or football today, each team (2 to 5 people) must bring a ball through a fixed circle.

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They use their hips and elbows instead of legs and arms.

Due to the simple rules of the game, players are often 'comfortable' using their ways as long as they bring the ball to their destination. So sometimes its price is the player's life.

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A football field of the Aztecs.

It is also used for players to bet on their lives (to find the lost team to . sacrifice). This sport was popular in the Americas at that time. Many tribes or even Mayans enjoy it.

4. Play the medieval ball

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A risky game in the Middle Ages.

This game is very similar to some games today when the two teams will try to reserve a ball, but since there are no clear rules on the number of teams and the rules of the game, it often leads to fierce competition. can be deadly.

The goal is still up to 3.2 km, so players have to be extremely difficult to get the ball to the finish, unfortunate accidents often happen when they trample and steal the ball.

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The Middle Ages were the 'dark' period of human history.Life is like hell in this period.

A quite dangerous and violent sport, right?

In addition, this period considered torturing people as a hobby of crazy nobles. They devised all forms of barbaric and terrible torture and took the pain of others to entertain!

The forms of torture such as dropping victims into Moray eel lake that had it torn apart and eating meat were also considered elegant pleasures at the time!

In the 6th century BC, Greek tyrants - Phalaris often turned nine Brazen Bull prisoners. Brazen Bull is a bronze cow, with a side door or a back designed by Perillos in Athens

The victim's tragic screams will sound like a roaring cow and make the aristocrats excited.

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A form of torture that makes scary pleasures.

The victim will be fed into the cow's abdomen and baked inside, and with a special design, the prisoners' painful screams will be similar to the roaring cow.

5. Polo head of Mongolia

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Mongolians use games to practice fighting and solidarity skills.

It is scary when a sport uses . a footballer, Unlike today's Polo and some other places (using a ball or a goat to make a ball) this game becomes a pastime of Mong soldiers Ancient under Genghis Khan.

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This game is very popular during the Genghis Khan period and in a more frightening form than elsewhere.

They made it scary when they used to bring the prisoners to behead and behave . shadow! The barbaric game does not stop there, if while playing the ball "skull" is broken. A new "ball" will have to be replaced.

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The Mongols were the most elite and aggressive army at that time.

This is considered the favorite pastime of Mongolian soldiers, helping them to train their combat skills and assert themselves.

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A barracks of Mongolian soldiers.