{"id":2517,"date":"2011-08-13T21:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2011-08-13T21:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:34:59","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-august-13-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2517","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 13, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Provincial Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In olden times there was often a stigma attached to executioners.  Provincial European executioners often lived out of town, in isolated though not necessarily inferior circumstances.  In church, they and their families were generally assigned a separate pew; if they ate in the tavern, they were seated separately.  In cities, this distance was more marked.  The seventeenth-century Nuremberg executioner Master Franz Schmidt, known to posterity for the laundry list of a journal that he kept of his executions, was given a large stone tower on a spit on the Furth River.  The property came with a gated portion of one of the two bridges connecting the spit to the city, which was his sole walkway for the early-evening constitutional.  If the executioner had been drawn from the criminal ranks, the man was physically &#8220;marked&#8221;.  In the Swedish town of Arboga, in 1470, a thief on the gallows, commuted for serving as hangman for his fellows, was branded with an iron.  Two centuries later, a thief in the town of Gronso agreed to become his fellows&#8217; hangman; both his ears were cut off.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060931035\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theasylumeclecti&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=0060931035\">The Last Face You&#8217;ll Ever See<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Provincial Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In olden times there was often a stigma attached to executioners. Provincial European executioners often lived out of town, in isolated though not necessarily inferior circumstances. In church, they and their families were generally assigned a separate pew; if they ate in the tavern, they were seated separately. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}