Creepy and weird stuff from ancient history

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

While reading about Lady Jane Gray on Wikipedia I ended up on a page about the history of execution by burning and from there a page that detailed a Roman punishment called

Poena cullei​

The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack, with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water.

That'll be the next trick for any coach going down Anfield Road!

 

[aguero93:20]

A westlife album on loop should sufice.

Along with a bayonet up the arse.

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

Scaphism. Terrific race the Persians, terrific.

Actually the Persians were very civilized way ahead of the muslims and the like

 

[Cotontoquinn]

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?

Putin does own a dog - a Labrador Retriever. He famously always had it with him when he was in meetings with the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel who had a fear of dogs. This was in 2007.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Strappado - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Not really creepy or weird but I Went to The Pyramids Of Giza a few years ago and I still can't my head around how they built them.

Not just the main structures but also the antichambers inside with the technology they had available at the time

 

[unicorn]

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

There's an uncomfortable reference to the Damiens execution in "A Tale Of Two Cities" by Dickens.

 

[BrianW]

John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (called by some the butcher of England) was beheaded in 1470. He asked for his head to be cut off with three strokes (in honour of the Trinity.) This was done, apparently. When beheading was done with an axe, much depended on the skill of the executioner. A skilled one could kill you with one blow.

Why was Tiptoft called 'butcher'?' He was Lord High Constable under Edward IV and undertook several executions based on summary trials. He captured some of Warwick's followers and after hanging them, impaled their bodies, ramming a stake up their behind, reversing their trunks and sticking their heads between their legs on the other end of the stick. Even medieval England thought this a bit much. Funnily enough, Tiptoft was a highly educated man by the standards of the English nobility.

An apprentice or unskilled executioner would need many strokes of the axe. As happened to the unfortunate Earl of Arundel in 1326. He was pretty much hacked to pieces as no proper executioner was available, so they just got a random prisoner to do it, on the basis of a pardon.

The guillotine was a kind method of killing as your head always came off in one blow.

 

[hammocity]

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.

GNBA is Bang out of order.

Putin does own a dog - a Labrador Retriever. He famously always had it with him when he was in meetings with the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel who had a fear of dogs. This was in 2007.

Wrong thread I know but I hope his dog chews his bollocks off.

 

[jimharri]

Not really creepy or weird but I Went to The Pyramids Of Giza a few years ago and I still can't my head around how they built them.

Not just the main structures but also the antichambers inside with the technology they had available at the time

I thought everybody knew; aliens built them.