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The Ceffyl Pren ("wooden horse") is a term referring to a former local form of punishment practiced in Welsh form of mob justice.It was a form of ritual humiliation in which offenders would be paraded around the village tied to a wooden frame, sometimes at night, by a mob carrying torches. [1]
An illustration of a torture horse of the Spanish donkey variety. Riding a rail, sketched by Andrew W. Warren in November 1864. The first variation of the wooden horse is a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward, mounted on a sawhorse-like support. The victim is made to straddle the triangular "horse."
Years later, Kantirava learns of his story, and takes a wooden horse and a bamboo elephant to play near a pond. Some maidservants are drawing water from the pond and see the boy playing pretend that his wooden toys are drinking water. The women mock the boy for the absurd idea, and he retorts that so is a human woman giving birth to a brick.
In the first legend, Queen Maria is insatiable and has sexual intercourse with a male donkey. Then the courtiers, in order to drive the queen crazy with pleasure, put the queen into a wooden horse, cover the wooden horse with a horsehide, and the male donkey has sexual intercourse with the queen in a horse costume. [193]
This boy and his miniature horse are on the best playdate ever. In this video from America's Funniest Home Videos, the unlikely duo seems to be having the time of their lives.
Riding the rail (also called being "run out of town on a rail") was a punishment most prevalent in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries in which an offender was made to straddle a fence rail held on the shoulders of two or more bearers. The subject was then paraded around town or taken to the city limits and dumped by the roadside.
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A father killed his 3-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine and letting it run for five minutes. The father was allegedly punishing his son for bad behavior. Christophe Champenois, 37 ...