{"id":835,"date":"2010-01-20T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=835"},"modified":"2010-01-20T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:51:01","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-20-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 20, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The ultimate torment, slow death by burning at the stake, was practiced in England and Scotland for several centuries, not only for heresy or witchcraft, but for the ‘petty treason’ of murdering a husband. Sometimes a degree of mercy was allowed: the victim was strangled as the flames took hold. In Lincoln in 1722, Eleanor Elsom was convicted of killing her husband, and sentenced to be burned. Her clothes and limbs were smeared with pitch, and she was dragged on a hurdle to the place of execution. She was made to stand on a barrel of pitch surrounded by faggots, and chained to the stake. A noose was placed about her neck, the rope running through a pulley at the top of the stake and into the executioner’s hands. The fire was lit, and the rope was pulled; but whether Eleanor was dead before the flames finally consumed her body half an hour later, nobody knew.<\/p>\n

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

Today’s Petty Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The ultimate torment, slow death by burning at the stake, was practiced in England and Scotland for several centuries, not only for heresy or witchcraft, but for the ‘petty treason’ of murdering a husband. Sometimes a degree of mercy was allowed: the victim was strangled as the flames took […]<\/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-835","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\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}