Still enthralled by the view but feeling no jitters about Muir’s “staid, orderly, graceful, easy-going’ fall, young Forest Case stopped in midriver. There he simply stood in the current and admired the scenery. He yelled over to his buddy Shoemaker on shore, “Look at those mountains up there, with the white clouds floating around them!”<\/p>\n At the instant these words left his mouth, Case lost his footing and fell. The flow instantly pushed the struggling lad toward the brink of Vernal Fall.<\/p>\n Shoemaker rushed into the shallows to grab the runaway boy. For an instant this would-be rescuer succeeded in gripping his friend’s fingers as the water swept him along. Maddeningly, the flow tore Case away from Shoemaker’s grip. Mere seconds later, it swept Case “shrieking” over the 317-foot drop. Several witnesses watched Case fly into space. Three women fainted. The boy’s body was finally found on August 19, at the very spot where he had landed, after the raging river that had held it in place dried up enough to allow his recovery.<\/p>\n Culled from:\u00a0Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite<\/a><\/p>\n Isn’t it interesting how women were always (allegedly) “fainting” back in the day?\u00a0 When is the last time you saw a woman faint?<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shrew’s Violin (aka Shrew’s Fiddle)<\/strong><\/p>\n The Shrew’s Violin is a portable pillory, with a single or double version, specifically designed to inflict torture on female victims.<\/p>\n The function of this instrument was not limited to immobilizing the victim’s waist and head. Its phallic shape was directed at heaping even more ridicule on the women who were forced to wear it.\u00a0 More than physical torture, this instrument subject its victims to psychological torture.<\/p>\n The many instruments still in existence today are all so light that they enabled the victim to move. In fact, were it not for the degree of psychological torture they inflicted, it would be hard to define them as an instrument of torture.<\/p>\n This device also came in a double version that intensified psychological torture by imprisoning two women at a time, and compelling them to face one another.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/c6b93ffeed2f362e41fe4aa72\/images\/03e41c35-84c4-458d-93f1-22d330985c0b.jpg\")
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\nPoor Plunging Forest.<\/em><\/p>\nTorture Device Du Jour!<\/h3>\n
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