Ricky5422
Assistant executioner
The carved and painted wooden figures that once adorned the prow of large boats were powerful symbolic protection. In Italian these figures are called "polena", which curiously derives from the French word "poulaine", referring to footwear in vogue in the 1600s. More rarely they depicted male divinities, such as Poseidon or a newt, or animals, such as a dolphin. Most of the time it was about women or mermaids, who for their naked or poorly dressed female forms were a tribute to the gods of the sea, who could only be fascinated by them and who would have saved ships like that from storms and bad weather. ornate.
Surely they would have appreciated much more the sacrifice of a real woman nailed to wood!
