{"id":627,"date":"2009-12-08T22:09:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=627"},"modified":"2013-11-09T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T20:44:46","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-8-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For December 8, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Savage Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Britain, flogging was permitted in the armed forces until the middle of the 20th century. The weapon was usually the cat-o’-nine-tails, and, although different types were in use, the general design would seem to be that as described by an officer in the 1800s: <\/p>\n

“The nine lashes, each about sixteen inches long, were made of a thick, strong kind of whip-cord, mounted on a wooden handle the length of a drumstick. On each were tied three large knots, one being near the end, so that a poor wretch, who was sentenced to receive one thousand lashes, as was often the case, had twenty-seven thousand knots cutting into his back, and men have declared to me that the sensation experienced at each lash, was as though the talons of a hawk were tearing the flesh off their bones.”<\/p>\n

\"Cat-o'-nine-tails\"<\/p>\n

The savagery of such floggings were such that that happened in many cases. In 1800 it was reported by the doctor examining a man who had just received “only” 200 lashes, that once the wounds were cleaned, the man’s backbone and shoulder-blade were laid bare. In that same regiment in 1806, a man died after receiving the same type of wounds; another received 400 lashes and, although he scorned to flinch at first, further strokes did so much damage “that he groaned and died”.<\/p>\n

Culled from: The Book Of Execution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Savage Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In Britain, flogging was permitted in the armed forces until the middle of the 20th century. The weapon was usually the cat-o’-nine-tails, and, although different types were in use, the general design would seem to be that as described by an officer in the 1800s: “The nine lashes, each […]<\/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-627","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\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}