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punishments: a device or procedure used to discourage criminals (see also torture).

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Title Page Detail: Angel With Whip Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hair Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...]

Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, feet, bare feet, spooky, greyscale

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Added: 2006-03-26

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2.—Bound hand and foot to stakes and smeared with honey, and so left exposed to the sun, to be tortured by the stings of bees and other insects Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by both feet, and a great stone fastened to his neck. B. Sometimes the Blessed Martyrs, after being smeared with honey, were bound [naked] to stakes fixed in the ground, and so exp [...]

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3.—Suspended by the thumbs, heavy stones being fastened to the feet; hung up over a slow fire and beaten Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by his thumbs, heavy stones being attached to his feet. B. Christians hung up, and a slow fire kindled underneath, so as to suffocate them with the smoke; the victims being scourge [...]

Keywords: nudity, torture, punishments, people, death, religion, feet, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2006-04-03

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4.—Suspended by the feet, and the head beaten with hammers, etc. Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by the feet, and his head at the same time pounded with hammers. B. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are tied behind his back, heavy weights being fastened to his feet and roun [...]

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Added: 2006-04-06

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5.—Suspended with great weights on the shoulders, and a gag fixed in the mouth. Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are bound behind his back, and having the shoulders weighted with lumps of salt, a wooden gag being also forced into his mouth. B. Martyr suspended by a hook. “ [...]

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Added: 2006-04-17

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6.—Martyrs bound to the circumference of a great wheel, and rolled down a precipice Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

“Sometimes Martyrs were bound to the circumference of great wheels, and so hurled from a height over stony places.” (p. 26) The plate actually seems to show a naked man with his hands and feet bound b [...]

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Added: 2006-05-01

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7.—Fastened to a wheel, which is revolved over iron spikes Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr whose limbs are interwoven in the spokes of a wheel, on which he is left exposed for days, till he dies. B. Martyr bound to a narrow wheel, which is revolved, so that his body is horribly ma [...]

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Added: 2007-03-02

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8.—Revolved over a blazing fire Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr bound naked to a wheel, which is revolved over iron spikes. B. Bound to the circumference of a wheel, which is revolved over a fire kindles underneath. This time it’s naked men who are tortu [...]

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81.—Captive wearing the Torque. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Torques, or gold and bronze necklaces composed of flexible bars, were peculiar to the people of this country.” (p. 22) “The symbols of the great republic were henceforward to become more familiar to [...]

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Added: 2007-03-26

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Beating the boy Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

Mr.Choppart takes his son in one hand, and with his other hand the cane (used for loading a musket), made from flexible and supple whalebone. A colleague suggested, “Mr Choppart grabbed his son with [...]

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Added: 2007-02-13

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20.—Tortured with quicklime, boiling oil, etc. Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Wooden horse. B. Martyr taken down from the horse and being rolled about over shards of pottery. C. Having quicklime, boiling oil and the like, poured over him.(p. 120) Quickline, or calcium oxide, [...]

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Added: 2012-05-14

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