Creepy and weird stuff from ancient history

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

I had to sit through a Coldplay concert once.

Close thread - we have reached the summit............

 

[hammocity]

Mary Queens of Jocks, her execution didn’t go well. First blow with a sword just grazed her neck where it’s rumoured she said “sweet Jesus”. The second blow was a bit better, it severed her neck but the head stayed connected so the swordsman just “sawed” through her neck until the head became separated. The executioner then went to get her garter (his souvenir and privilege) from under Mary’s skirt and her little dog was hiding in there, the dogs nose was pushed into Mary’s blood. Does Putin own a dog?

 

[PinkFinal]

Bang out of order - riding the stang

For centuries, rural Britain played host to a bizarre form of community punishment. In the north of England and Scotland, it was known as ‘Riding the Stang’, and in parts of southern England it was called ‘Skimmington Riding’. Whatever it was called there was one common factor, a boisterous rabble of rowdy villagers taunting and embarrassing the offender with an elaborate parade.

When a husband was known to have hit his wife, the young men of the village set out about creating the procession. The stang was a hurdle or pole on which a joker of the village would sit and be carried aloft through the streets. Pots and pans were banged, and whistles and horns were played. All the villagers would join in and typically the procession would move around the village before arriving at the home of the transgressor, who would presumably be peeking nervously through the curtains.

Sometimes the guy being carried around was part of the shaming crew, and on other occasions, it was the offender himself who was carted around. Some of the last recorded instances of ‘Riding the Stang’ were as recent as 1889.

 

[Victorinodennistua]

Bang out of order - riding the stang

For centuries, rural Britain played host to a bizarre form of community punishment. In the north of England and Scotland, it was known as ‘Riding the Stang’, and in parts of southern England it was called ‘Skimmington Riding’. Whatever it was called there was one common factor, a boisterous rabble of rowdy villagers taunting and embarrassing the offender with an elaborate parade.

When a husband was known to have hit his wife, the young men of the village set out about creating the procession. The stang was a hurdle or pole on which a joker of the village would sit and be carried aloft through the streets. Pots and pans were banged, and whistles and horns were played. All the villagers would join in and typically the procession would move around the village before arriving at the home of the transgressor, who would presumably be peeking nervously through the curtains.

Sometimes the guy being carried around was part of the shaming crew, and on other occasions, it was the offender himself who was carted around. Some of the last recorded instances of ‘Riding the Stang’ were as recent as 1889.

This sounds like the Victorian postcode lottery.

 

[BrianW]

'Also in those days near York and on neighbouring moors and many other places in England men were seen many times about the middle of the day, in great numbers and clad in mantles, and walking around in a circle, but they had no necks or heads. They were seen many times and so clearly that their whole procession could be thoroughly examined by onlookers.'
(Kirkstall Chronicle.)

Proof that football 'journalists' existed in the Middle Ages.

 

[Barcon]

Bang out of order - riding the stang

For centuries, rural Britain played host to a bizarre form of community punishment. In the north of England and Scotland, it was known as ‘Riding the Stang’, and in parts of southern England it was called ‘Skimmington Riding’. Whatever it was called there was one common factor, a boisterous rabble of rowdy villagers taunting and embarrassing the offender with an elaborate parade.

When a husband was known to have hit his wife, the young men of the village set out about creating the procession. The stang was a hurdle or pole on which a joker of the village would sit and be carried aloft through the streets. Pots and pans were banged, and whistles and horns were played. All the villagers would join in and typically the procession would move around the village before arriving at the home of the transgressor, who would presumably be peeking nervously through the curtains.

Sometimes the guy being carried around was part of the shaming crew, and on other occasions, it was the offender himself who was carted around. Some of the last recorded instances of ‘Riding the Stang’ were as recent as 1889.

Got to be honest, sounds like a bit of a laugh.

 

[Manchester33]

There's a good podcast on Spotify called History's great mysteries.

Some interesting stories:
The lost colony of Roanoke
The immortal buddhist monk
USS Nimitz incident
The Dylatov Pass incident

All unsolved, weird mysteries.

 

[Big Swifty]

The execution of Robert Damiens was the worst I've read. He stabbed King Louis XV. Hope 28th March wasn't his birthday :)

Fetched from his prison cell on the morning of 28 March 1757, Damiens allegedly said "La journée sera rude" ("The day will be hard").[9] He was first subjected to a torture in which his legs were painfully compressed by devices called "boots". He was then tortured with red-hot pincers; the hand with which he had held the knife during the attempted assassination was burned using sulphur; molten wax, molten lead, and boiling oil were poured into his wounds.[1] He was then remanded to the royal executioner Charles Henri Sanson who, after emasculating Damiens, harnessed horses to his arms and legs to be dismembered. But Damiens's limbs did not separate easily: the officiants ordered Sanson to cut Damiens's tendons, and once that was done the horses were able to perform the dismemberment.[10][11][12] Once Damiens was dismembered, to the applause of the crowd, his reportedly still-living torso was burnt at the stake.[13] (Some accounts say he died when his last remaining arm was removed.)

Robert-François Damiens - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Did it hurt?

 

[ancoats]

 

[Big-P]

Have a read up on the Achaemenid (first Persian empire) punishment “Scaphism”

Another fact about the Achaemenids is that the film “the warriors” is based on an Ancient Greek’s (Xenophon) account of his mercenary work called the Anabis.

Scaphism - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org