Agony, much more painful than yours

[fellmama]

In honor of being done with my paper, I give you the best index entry ever. From St. George: Hero, Martyr and Myth, by Samantha Riches:
Torture (specific):
Baked in bull-shaped vessel
Baked in oven
Beaten
Boiled (entire)
Boiled (dismembered)
Bound to trees
Burned on pyre
Burned with torches
Crushed skull
Dismembered
Dragged
Flaying
Hooks, assaulted with
Lime kiln (or quicklime), thrown into
Millstone, crushed by
Millstone, stretched by
Nailed and tied with chains to table
Poisoned
Rack, stretched on
Rakes, assaulted with
Ridden as a horse
Salt poured into wounds
Saltire cross
Sawn in half
Scourged
Shoes (red hot iron)
Shoes (spiked iron)
Stocks
Suspended over fire
Well, thrown into
Wheel(s), broken on

That George and his wacky high-jinks!

Comments

[parksdh.livejournal.com]

Thrown into well? It puts the lotion on its skin...

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a hot weekend for an S&M person...

...when you know she would go with you...

[rosemaryinwheat.livejournal.com]

...if there only were doors.

I have to chime in when I stumble across an Into the Woods reference on my friends page.

Cate

[zoing.livejournal.com]

Parts of it sound like a recipie of yor...beaten, boiled, baked in an oven and what do we have????

By George it's a lovely black pudding!