Items matching feet

Engraving detail: stripy feet

A detail from There Sleeps Titania showing the engraving technique. It is actually the knight’s feet, in his quasi-medieval shoes. There is a series of three books about the Heath family of engravers [...]

Keywords: engravings, feet, abstract, backgrounds, wallpaper

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Added: 2009-10-22

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3.—Suspended by the thumbs, heavy stones being fastened to the feet; hung up over a slow fire and beaten

A. Martyr suspended by his thumbs, heavy stones being attached to his feet. B. Christians hung up, and a slow fire kindled underneath, so as to suffocate them with the smoke; the victims being scourge [...]

Keywords: nudity, torture, punishments, people, death, religion, feet, bare feet

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Added: 2006-04-03

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4.—Suspended by the feet, and the head beaten with hammers, etc.

A. Martyr suspended by the feet, and his head at the same time pounded with hammers. B. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are tied behind his back, heavy weights being fastened to his feet and roun [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, feet, punishments, people, death, religion

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Added: 2006-04-06

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5.—Suspended with great weights on the shoulders, and a gag fixed in the mouth.

A. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are bound behind his back, and having the shoulders weighted with lumps of salt, a wooden gag being also forced into his mouth. B. Martyr suspended by a hook. “ [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, feet, punishments, people, death, religion

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Added: 2006-04-17

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1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hair

A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...]

Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, feet, bare feet, spooky

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Added: 2006-03-26

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1734.—Man and Woman in Stocks.

“A stockes to staye sure and safely detayne Lazy, lewd leu[?]terers that lawes do offend.”(Harman’s ‘Caveat,’ &c.) “The stocks are still, we believe, occasionally used [1845], though the sooner they t [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, feet, beer, stocks

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Added: 2005-12-20

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