Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.
105 years old, he hung in there, didn’t he?
He didn’t die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disembowled, drawn and quartered.
Ouch.
Guess he wasn’t too popular at the end, huh?
No, not exactly a man of the people. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
Wasn’t he also Vigo the Butch?
And dig this, there was a prophecy. Just before his head died, his last words were: “Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I’ll be back.”
whenever some conversation about burial shit comes up, i say out of nowhere, deadpan that i want “death is but a door…” line written on my memorial stone or whatever to see if anyone catches it. nobody ever does and i sound like a crazy person.
Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
we had that on VHS tape when i was a kid, out of like maybe 7 tapes, so it hit the rotation a lot.
i have watched that conversation at least 50 times, the combo of existential horror but like “what a douche” at the same time killed me as a little kid.
whenever some conversation about burial shit comes up, i say out of nowhere, deadpan that i want “death is but a door…” line written on my memorial stone or whatever to see if anyone catches it. nobody ever does and i sound like a crazy person.
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