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Re: oh YEAH!
Posted By: The Crimson King (inktomi1.algonet.se)
Date: 11/19/1999 at 11:55 a.m.
In Response To: Re: oh YEAH! (Forrest)
: Augh! I still say being drawn and quartered is usually
: done with the victim still alive (else why draw them
: out on the horses if they're already been quartered by
: sword?). I just asked on IRC EFnet channels #myth and
: #bungie. Weevil of #myth says you're cut open and hot
: metal poured into you, then you're tied to four horses
: and torn apart - with nothing being done to the head.
: Ophelan of #bungie says that the body is simply cut
: into various pieces depending on what the villagers
: are demanding, and the pieces are placed on display
: around the town. The fate of the head varies as much
: as the other body parts. Everybody in my household
: standing around here says it's when your limbs are
: tied to four horses, they're whipped, and it rips you
: apart. I'm about to post to alt.games.myth about the
: subject.
Being quartered was apparantly a popular way of execution among pirates in the Caribbean of the 15th century and in Europe at the same time, according to Stuff magazine. I'm guessing the good people at Stuff aren't the finest historical scholars, so I'm guessing they got the century of the pirates wrong rather than the geographical location. As for when Europe did it, I'm not going to guess. There seemed to have been a problem with getting the horses to pull in all four directions at the same time, though. So what would happen is that the horses would drag you around for a while and then the executioners finally got tired of it all and simply hacked the limbs off with whatever tools were available. I have not myself heard of people being decapitated before or after quartering, but can't be sure of the matter. It would be a strange to call it quartering if there was a head to cut off as well. I think whatever beheading was done was probably for display on a stake.
Check out this URL for source on the matter and some other extremely nasty ways of being killed:
http://www.stuff-mag.com/story/story007-2.html
Peter Isotalo
Messages In This Thread
- Wind Age is Dark, Ares!
William Wallace (cache-1.server.telinco.net) -- 11/18/1999 at 6:51 a.m.
- Wind Age is Light
Smeagol (spider-wb084.proxy.aol.com) -- 11/18/1999 at 8:31 a.m.
- DARK, DARK, DARK!
William Wallace (cache-1.server.telinco.net) -- 11/18/1999 at 8:37 a.m.
- LIGHT, LIGHT, LIGHT!
Forrest (cache1.avtel.net) -- 11/18/1999 at 8:59 a.m.
- I NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!
William Wallace (cache-1.server.telinco.net) -- 11/18/1999 at 10:06 a.m.
- Myth Ages
neomorpheous (1cust54.tnt3.iowa-city.ia.da.uu.net) -- 11/18/1999 at 3:52 p.m.
- Re: Myth Ages
Dan Rudolph (helser-1019.res.iastate.edu) -- 11/18/1999 at 5:17 p.m.
- Re: Myth Ages
SiliconDream (anton-mates.hip.berkeley.edu) -- 11/18/1999 at 8:28 p.m.
- Re: Myth Ages
Milk Man (ip212.herndon24.va.pub-ip.psi.net) -- 11/19/1999 at 2:40 a.m.
- oh YEAH!
Ares (host-216-77-203-12.btr.bellsouth.net) -- 11/18/1999 at 3:25 p.m.
- Re: oh YEAH!
Forrest (cache1.avtel.net) -- 11/19/1999 at 11:40 a.m.
- Re: oh YEAH!
The Crimson King (inktomi1.algonet.se) -- 11/19/1999 at 11:55 a.m.
- Re: oh YEAH!
SiliconDream (anton-mates.hip.berkeley.edu) -- 11/19/1999 at 2:32 p.m.
- THE TRUTH!
William Wallace (cache-1.server.telinco.net) -- 11/20/1999 at 4:18 a.m.
- Re: oh YEAH!
neomorpheous (1cust183.tnt2.iowa-city.ia.da.uu.net) -- 11/19/1999 at 3:33 p.m.
- Re: oh YEAH!
Dan Rudolph (helser-165-65.res.iastate.edu) -- 11/21/1999 at 1:58 a.m.
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