Les Panotéens : Ces Gens aux Immenses Oreilles ont-ils Existé ?

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00:00 As far as we can remember, people have tried to invent stories about humans, with a strange look.

00:07 What is even stranger is that over the years, people have even claimed to have proof of the existence of these mythical humanoids.

00:15 This is the case of the Gorgads, a tribe that lived on islands near the Atlantic coast of Africa.

00:21 The first mention of this people in literature dates back to the first century.

00:26 Not much is said about the men of the tribe, but the women, they were really special.

00:32 They were said to have hair all over their bodies.

00:35 Today, scientists are almost certain that people could have confused monkeys with these humanoids.

00:41 A general from Carthage claimed to have landed on these islands at the time and described these men as being very fast runners.

00:49 This supports the idea that these testimonies would be about primates and not men.

00:55 It is normal to think that monkeys would have fled after seeing men for the first time, right?

01:01 The location of the Gorgads and their islands of origin is uncertain and has been described in different ways by the writers over time.

01:09 Pliny the Elder, a Roman herudist of the first century, spoke of another strange tribe.

01:16 This people was that of the Astomys.

01:18 Like the Gorgads, they were said to be very hairy and lived in the upper delta of the Ganges, near the current northern border of India.

01:26 It is not so much their appearance that made them unique.

01:29 Pliny wrote that these creatures did not eat or drink at all.

01:34 Not because they did not want to, but because they did not have a mouth.

01:39 They fed on themselves by sniffing the smell of plants and apples.

01:44 A strong smell could also be very dangerous for them.

01:48 As for their body, it is said that they were slender and greasy.

01:52 Mainly because they did not eat food.

01:55 It is difficult to believe that these people existed at some point.

01:59 However, historical facts could explain this mysterious behavior of sniffing.

02:04 Some specialists believe that the tribes located near the mountains of the Himalayas brought fruits and perfumed vegetables during their travels.

02:13 Indeed, the fact of sniffing something pleasant can help to fight altitude sickness.

02:20 In the past, travelers thought that the noses were caused by a bad wind.

02:25 And tried to face it by smelling onions, dried apples, apricots or garlic.

02:31 Pliny the Elder seems to have a lot of fun writing about strange species of humanoid appearance.

02:39 In his writings, he also mentions a tribe of headless people, with their faces in the chest.

02:46 They were also very popular in medieval tales and known as "Acephals".

02:51 They lived in the mountainous and wooded regions of North Africa, surrounded by wild animals such as the lions of the Atlas, elephants and other vipers.

03:02 Herodotus, a Greek writer of the century BC, also mentions this people in his stories.

03:09 But as he is known both as the father of history and the father of the boars, I would not join these fables so quickly if I were you.

03:18 Like many other myths surrounding mythical creatures, there is a part of truth in these descriptions.

03:25 People who travel in the desert, like the Tuaregs, traditionally wear clothes that cover them entirely, with spaces in the fabric reserved for their eyes and nose.

03:36 This tradition protects them from the heat and sand during their journey through the desert.

03:41 It is therefore not surprising that these clothes were able to make the authors of antiquity believe that these people had no heads.

03:50 The next mythical group was like the dogs of the Bassets. Not because they had a very good smell or because they snorted on the couch all day,

03:58 but because they had ears so long that they could cover their entire body at night.

04:03 They were nicknamed the Panothéens and it was said that they were a tribe of giants from mysterious and cold islands.

04:10 They slept, snoring in their big ears, and some said that they could even help them fly.

04:18 And then there are these strange stories of monopods. You may have already guessed what they look like.

04:24 Monopods were creatures of ancient mythology who only had one big foot.

04:29 The word "monopod" also means "one foot" in Greek.

04:34 They were also called the Skiapods, which means "shade feet".

04:38 Indeed, according to some stories, these people had feet so big that they could use them as an umbrella to hide from the sun.

04:46 They simply lay on their backs, feet in the air, in case they were caught by the Chalea to ride, no matter the heat.

04:55 The Pieds were mentioned for the first time in a play in 414 BC.

05:02 Other travelers have left stories about their encounter with monopods in India, and they describe these people as having only one leg.

05:11 But a leg with which they could easily jump to move.

05:16 No list of strange creatures in the human form would be complete without the mermaids.

05:22 They are described as mythical creatures who lived in the seas and are generally represented as having the bust of a woman and a fish tail under the tail.

05:33 According to the cultures, the mermaid represents the life and fertility, the danger and the ruin.

05:40 The oldest legend of the mermaid is that it was ascended to the first millennium BC.

05:45 In this story, the goddess of Hercetos wanted to live under the waters, but her father did not allow her, but did not renounce her beautiful features.

05:54 They therefore opted for this half-human, half-aquatic appearance.

05:59 There are also popular tales about mermaids at the beginning of Great Britain, but without illustration.

06:06 In the tales of sailors, mermaids can symbolize both luck and disaster.

06:11 As the sailors spent a lot of time at sea and sometimes had nothing to do, it is not surprising that they began to believe in figures that controlled the weather.

06:20 Mermaids were considered both attractive and dangerous.

06:24 Like the sea itself, reflecting the unpredictable and throbbing nature of the waters.

06:29 We have no proof of the existence of mermaids today, but some people have done their best to fabricate false evidence over the years.

06:38 Have you ever heard of the Fiji mermaid?

06:42 It is a creature invented by the American foreigner P.T. Barnum in the 1840s.

06:48 Presented in New York, Boston and London, it has captivated the attention of the public.

06:53 It was not the only one of its kind, and what is strange is that these false mermaids were not even that pretty.

07:00 Some of them were wrinkled tails by attaching fish bones to monkey bones.

07:06 The Dominican Republic has its own mysterious mythical creature resembling a human being.

07:13 This legend evokes a woman who lived in the woods.

07:17 She is described as having long black hair, but the hick realized that she had her feet backwards.

07:24 Although she is small, her features would be extremely delicate, especially her eyes.

07:30 It is nicknamed the "Siguapa".

07:33 It is thought that it would be a nocturnal creature and that it would be impossible to track it from its footprints, due to the particular position of its feet.

07:42 It is also thought that to detect it, it would have to go out at night, but only during the full moon.

07:48 Ah, there is always a carnival. And you have now been kissed by a dog for you.

07:54 Its story has many variants.

07:57 Others often speak of a timid creature that would run away at the simple voice of the skens.

08:02 One knows that it sleeps in the trees. It snores at the poisons, at the fruits.

08:07 It is especially in Nordic mythology that we hear about dwarves.

08:12 In many tales of Northern Europe, dwarves are described as being physically smaller than most people, but also as the best of the forgers.

08:20 They were in charge of making robust tools that would have helped many heroes in their quest.

08:26 Some dwarves also had metamorphosis abilities.

08:30 They frequently took the appearance of inanimate objects such as needles, as well as creatures such as fish and lichens.

08:37 These stories of dwarves can also be summarized by some historical facts.

08:42 At the Bronze Age, the miners of Southern Europe gradually exhausted their reserves of tin, a material necessary for the manufacture of bronze.

08:51 In search of new supplies, they moved to the Northwest, where they found more.

08:57 These miners were smaller than most Europeans in the North, and with darker skin, longer hair, and a more chubby beard.

09:04 To cover it all, they had a much better knowledge of metals, and the way to extract them, and to use them to design the necessary tools.

09:14 It is therefore not surprising that they impressed their hosts.

09:18 To the point that they believed that these miners were gifted with supernatural powers.

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