Name: Why Austrians washed their bull
Uploaded: 2026-03-02T22:11:41.000Z
Duration: 9 min 8 s
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The people of Salzburg, Austria earned the nickname Bulwashers thanks to a deception that saved the city in 1525.

And one more time, the people of Salzburg, Austria earned the nickname Bulwashes thanks to a deception that saved the city in 1525.

Can I confirm for Australian accent reasons the spelling of is that bull?

W A S H E R S. I briefly heard ball washers.

I think there is a brand of cheese maybe made there.

Just this to me has the, has the like vibe and probably because the question really heavily gave this vibe and nothing to do with me.

It's like, did you say it saved them from war?

A deception that saved the city, I think was the phrase.

To me it's got big like someone's coming in to be like, I'm got an invading army.

And they're just like, oh, this isn't the town hall, it's the bull washing tent.

That seems to be the vibe it gives off, you know.

There are a couple of things in there that I would go explicitly no, but

you should definitely keep circling around this area.

All they're doing is going to war and making cheese.

This was a very pretty short lived war as far as they go.

Suppose any of you are 1520s European history experts?

Okay, so if I was going, Tom, if I was going to invade your home and you wanted to stop me, how would you make bull watching involved in this story?

I knock on the door, I've got a gun and I say, tom, I'm going to kill you unless you're washing a bull.

I feel like, this requires a bit more preparation.

Salzburg didn't have time to prepare, Tom.

Is it a literal bull or is it a metaphor?

Like, because you're talking deception center of a dartboard, Something like that?

Maybe that's an Australian term, but, like, that's bull.

There was definitely some bull going on here, but

in this case, we are talking about a literal bull.

Now, when you say there were, what, did they wash it or did they put little metal rings all over its legs?

It was not the only thing they did to it.

It's sort of like a Trojan horse situation, is it?

That is definitely a significant part of this.

I paint the bull to look like a horse, and now they're worried I've got cavalry.

The Simpsons version is not quite the right answer.

But with every step, you are edging closer to what was going on.

I paint the bull with the flag of the people who are trying to attack.

So they go, oh, we already took the city.

That's a steering a little bit further away.

They paint the bull and they say, Salzburg, 50 miles that way on the side of the bull.

Sarah, what would you use to paint a bull?

I'm trying to see if they paint it with some weird paint or something.