Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hanging of Hibbins on Boston Common, June 19, 1656.Sketch by F.T. Merril, 1886. Ann Hibbins (also spelled Hibbons or Hibbens) was a woman executed for witchcraft in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on June 19, 1656.
This was traditionally the gallows tree for the barony. [25] Tushielaw Tower gallows tree, parish of Ettrick in the Scottish borders. The tree was an ash tree in the ruins of Tushielaw Tower on which Adam Scott, the 'King of the Thieves', was hanged on the orders of James V. [25] Lynstock near Abernethy, Perth and Kinross. An ancient fir still ...
Anā al-Haqq (Arabic: أنا الحَق) is a short story based on the life of the Sufi Mansur Al-Hallaj, who was indicted and killed on charges of heresy. [1] It is part of the collection Anargha Nimisham , written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer in typical Khalil Gibran style,
John Austin (died 7 November 1783) was an English footpad who became the last person to be hanged at the Tyburn gallows just outside London.He was sentenced to death for the attempted murder of a labourer called John Spicer from Kent.
Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna is an Urdu patriotic poem written by Bismil Azimabadi as a dedication to young freedom fighters of the Indian independence movement. [1] This poem was popularized by Ram Prasad Bismil. When Ram Prasad Bismil was put on the gallows, the opening lines of this ghazal were on his lips. [2]
Xtabay is said to loiter at the foot of the sacred ceiba tree to lure men to their doom. The ceiba tree is a sacred tree of the Mayan people since the belief was that a virtuous person could become a ceiba tree after death. [4] The ceiba tree is considered to be an embodiment of the Axis mundi, connecting heaven, earth and underworld. [4]
Drowning pit in Milngavie, near Mugdock Barony Court. A drowning pit, drowning pool, murder-pool or murder hole (not to be confused with defensive murder holes) was a well or pond specifically for executing women and girls (for males the dule tree or gibbet was used) under Scottish feudal laws. [1]
Mirat-ul-Uroos (Urdu: مراۃ العروس, The bride's mirror) is an Urdu language novel written by Indian author Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, also popularly known as Deputy Nazir Ahmad, (1830–1912) and published in 1869. [1]