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[1] [2] [3] Other terms such as cutting, self-injury, and self-mutilation have been used for any self-harming behavior regardless of suicidal intent. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Common forms of self-harm include damaging the skin with a sharp object or scratching with the fingernails, hitting , or burning .
Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive overreaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.
Abhorred by the superstitious villagers as a thing unclean, the sin-eater cut himself off from all social intercourse with his fellow creatures by reason of the life he had chosen; he lived as a rule in a remote place by himself, and those who chanced to meet him avoided him as they would a leper.
The Hebrew term kareth ("cutting off" Hebrew: כָּרֵת, ), or extirpation, is a form of punishment for sin, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and later Jewish writings. The typical Biblical phrase used is "that soul shall be cut off from its people" or a slight variation of this. [1]
Emasculated Skoptsy male (left) and Skoptsy female with breasts cut off (right) Emasculation was one form of genital mutilation practiced by the Skoptsy, a Russian Christian sect. For males, the other form of mutilation available was castration. Females could remove their nipples, breasts, labia majora, labia minora or clitoris. [36]
Not content with giving himself the one necessary cut, he slashed himself thrice horizontally and twice vertically. Then he stabbed himself in the throat until the dirk protruded on the other side, with its sharp edge to the front; setting his teeth in one supreme effort, he drove the knife forward with both hands through his throat, and fell dead.
A man died from a “major arm wound” after punching a window of a bar he was being thrown out of, Illinois cops say. At about 2 a.m. on Monday, July 17, the 32-year-old man from Chicago was ...
Autocannibalism, also known as self-cannibalism and autosarcophagy, is the practice of eating parts of one's own body. [1] [2] Generally, only the consumption of flesh (including organ meat such as heart or liver) by an individual of the same species is considered cannibalism. [3]