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Punishment of women through the ages

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thehangingtree

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There has been the need to disciple people through the ages. In this dissertation the punishment of women through the ages will be explored. Mind you, this will not look at the sins which could be confessed and their stains be removed by some form of penance. No, this will look at the most grievous sins and crimes women committed and the punishment rightfully administered to the women.

We begin in the tenth century of the current calendar and pick up the story with the heinous crimes of Lady Barbara of the Moor clan. Lady Barbara had become attracted to the courier that delivered writings to the estate. Though betrothed to a young men of the moors, Barbara found the courier both handsome and well educated with the world due to his travels.

Even though promised to another man, Barbara and the courier became intimately involved. At first, this was limited to such activities as mere kissing of each other but the relationship blossomed and things such as fornication became a common happening. Barbara found the courier well-versed in pleasing her desires.

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He taught her things she had never dreamed of trying. It turned out he was as skilled with his tongue as he was his seemingly always erect cock.

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Barbara feared she could become pregnant with the courier’s child but this did not stop her lustful desires. She soon became proficient at anal sex. Not only could she not become with child this way she soon learned to enjoy it almost as much as the mercenary position.

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Still, she felt the guilt of cheating on the man she was engaged to. Back then, women were not to bed a man unless she was married to him. This helped in Barbara’s denial of sex with her betrothed but hid the fact she was hardly a virgin anymore.

The sensible thing to do was to consult the archbishop. In the solemn darkness of the confession booth, Barbara told the Archbishop Wragg of sins in the lurid details. She was surprised the archbishop gave her a penance of anal sex. In the chambers of the cathedral, Archbishop Wragg helped her perform her penance, burying his erect pecker deep in the cavity of Barbara’s bowels.

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Barbara was amazed at the size of the archbishop’s member as much as the archbishop was at how easily she took it. Something further must be done the archbishop thought.

Editor’s note here… Celibacy for church clerics was still some centuries away but it was still considered not only a sin but a crime to seduce a holy man of the church…

Archbishop Wragg summoned the magistrate to his abbey. Back then, cleric did not hold offices, but everyone knew you don’t mess with a man of god. The magistrate visits the archbishop to find what troubles him. Archbishop Wragg, in a most solemn voice, says “Lady Barbara of the Moor clan attempted to seduce me to get a lighter penance.”

The archbishop was not exactly telling the whole truth. Lady Barbara’s beauty did indeed attract him but it was he who gave her the unholy penance that she fortunately agreed to perform.

The magistrate leaned towards the archbishop and quietly said “You did not fall for her seduction, did you?”

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Indignantly the archbishop replied “Sir, I am a man of god! What do you think?!”

Embarrassed, the magistrate said “Of course you did not! I will take Lady Barbara into custody and see that she is suitably punished!”
 
Was that meant to be a joke? Or is it a typo? :rolleyes:
Similar to the Missionary position but more, uh, financially rewarding ;)
She was surprised the archbishop gave her a penance of anal sex. In the chambers of the cathedral, Archbishop Wragg helped her perform her penance, burying his erect pecker deep in the cavity of Barbara’s bowels.


Barbara was amazed at the size of the archbishop’s member as much as the archbishop was at how easily she took it. Something further must be done the archbishop thought.
Whatever! Here we have a good example of an 'episcopal position'! :facepalm:
 
Lady Barbara was taken into custody and tried for attempting to seduce the archbishop. Her defense was the archbishop had given her penance of being buggered by the archbishop himself. While what she said was true, the magistrate who ran her trial, denounced her statement and asked the audience what punishment she should be given. There was a resounding call for Lady Barbara to be burned to death in the town’s square.

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The magistrate, being a lacky of the archbishop, accepted the crowd’s suggestion and ordered Lady Barbara to be tied to a stake and be burned to death the next market day.

To add insult to her cruel sentence she was brought to the Cruxton Abbey to ask the archbishop for his forgiveness before she was burned alive. That did not go exactly as planned.

As a convicted felon, Lady Barbara was brought to the abbey wearing nothing but the irons binding her hands behind her back. The archbishop admired her naked body as the irons holding her arms back accentuated her already finely shaped breasts. Archbishop Wragg in the holiest tone he could muster asked Lady Barbara if she wished to repent for her sins that she would be burned to death for committing. Lady Barbara sternly answered “I would prefer to rot in hell fucking Satan than ask for your forgiveness.”

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Without hesitation, Archbishop Wragg prayed not only could Lady Barbara’s wish come true, but Satan would find her ass most attractive for his devilish cock!

Lady Barbara would spend her last days in town’s jail. On market day, a huge pyre of wood was assembled around a post to burn her to death. The magistrate was pleased with the people’s enthusiasm for torching Lady Barbara as he did not have to hire extra laborers to build the woodstack.

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So on the evening of the next market day, Lady Barbara was taken to the square to be burned to death. It should be noted Lady Barbara was sentenced to death not for her infidelity to the man she was betrothed to but for ‘attempting to seduce’ Archbishop Wragg to get an easier penance for her indulgences with the courier.

As Lady Barbara was being tied to the stake, she exclaimed “The archbishop gave me the penance! I would have never let him screw me in the ass if he did not demand I let him!”

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This claim earned her little sympathy. Lady Joan, sister of the carpenter Tree, looked up at Lady Barbara now chained to the stake and said “This whore would fuck wild dogs, given a chance! Light the fire and burn the bitch!”

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The wood was lit and Lady Barbara suffered a terrible death as she was burned at the stake.

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It should be noted burning women at a stake continued for many centuries. Though the act of binding women to a post to burn them to death terrified the condemned women, the spectators seemed to enjoy the torments the women experienced as they were prepared to be incinerated. Though not documented in history, Lady Joan allegedly devised a way for the condemned women’s hands be chained above their heads when they were bound to the stake and their feet were also bound to post. This gave the town’s folk a much clearer view of the woman’s body before she was burned.

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This also provided a much clearer view of the woman as she was burned to death.

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Though burning a woman to death prevented her from repeating her crime, it was indeed a messy affair and someone had to clean up her remains after she was toasted.

This progress will be explored in future chapters…
 
Lady Barbara sternly answered “I would prefer to rot in hell fucking Satan than ask for your forgiveness.”

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That’s telling him!!!

The magistrate was pleased with the people’s enthusiasm for torching Lady Barbara as he did not have to hire extra laborers to build the woodstack.

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I expect the brotherhood of bonfire layers will be up in arms about this as a breach of contract.

Lady Joan, sister of the carpenter Tree, looked up at Lady Barbara now chained to the stake and said “This whore would fuck wild dogs, given a chance! Light the fire and burn the bitch!”

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Joan here is as always eloquently spoken.
 
The magistrate, being a lacky of the archbishop, accepted the crowd’s suggestion and ordered Lady Barbara to be tied to a stake and be burned to death the next market day.

To add insult to her cruel sentence she was brought to the Cruxton Abbey to ask the archbishop for his forgiveness before she was burned alive. That did not go exactly as planned.
"Objection! Conflicts of interest!":cursing2:
Come on, Barb! When you have reason to complain, complain! :argue:
 
As it has been demonstrated, putting a woman to death by burning her can be a soddenly thing to clean up after she has expired. Lady Barbara, expired as she became, would no longer attempt to seduce the archbishop. However, she did not become a heap of ash that could easily be swept from the square. There were remains of her bones indelicately decorated with remains of her burnt flesh. Even women burned later than Lady Barbara, while also effectively put to death by the fire that had consumed body still left burnt remnants behind that had to be disposed of.

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Besides, even Archbishop Wragg was tired of the smell of freshly burned women’s flesh.

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Something needed to be done and fortunately there was a solution to the problem. You see back then women of the wealth class sometimes needed to be ‘taken care of’. Even in those dark times, divorce was frowned upon. If a gentleman could not divorce his wife (heaven forbid) he could trump up charges find reasons for her to be executed. Legitimate charges were not required- just a healthy donation to the abbey was all that was required to get the blessings of the powers that be to allow a man’s wife to be executed.

Wealthy men did not burn their wives in the public square to put them to death even when eliminating her to take a younger woman as her replacement. It was not (all) her fault a new squeeze showed up. It became a tradition to have her beheaded. The gentleman would have to hire an accomplished swordsman to cut her head off. This was an extra expense to have her put to death but the disposal of her body was neater and cheaper.

It was common to allow her to dress in her finest before taking her to the garden to have her head removed.

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The crew hired to remove her remains could quickly dispose of her body and it was up to her surviving husband if wished to keep her head as loving reminder of their marriage or have it removed with her body.

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It was soon found beheading a woman could be done just as well with an axe and axe men, considered less skilled than swordsmen, could be hired for less coinage. For a while, the elimination of women was still conducted on the family estate. The woman had her hands bound and was knelt over a tree stump to have her head removed.

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Unfortunately, history did not record what the women thought when they saw the axe that would remove their head planted in the stump.

The termination of marriages became an elaborate affair. Friends of the couple were invited to witness her head being removed and it was common for her to wear her finest outfit to her decapitation.

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She was allowed to offer her final fairwells to her friends before she placed her neck on the block and her head was removed.

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All this, along with the cost of removing freshly burned-to-death women, caused Archbishop Wragg to suggest instead of burning common women to death, it would be just as effective to have their heads cut off. They would be just as dead, and the clean-up of their remains would be quicker and less expensive.

It was with great fanfare when it was announced that Rita would be executed like the elite women were. People of the village filled the square to watch Rita have her head cut off. Rita was marched onto the raised platform, naked and her hands in irons behind her back. There were loud cheers as she looked down at the block where she would lay her neck so the axe man could chop her head off.

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In front of the cheering crowd, Rita was beheaded. Her head and body were quickly and easily removed. The people in charge thought her execution went well and they had saved funds cleaning up her remains but not all were satisfied.

This will be explored in the next installment…
 
I would not think so! A lot of blood to be cleaned up! And blood clots quickly, and clotted blood gives a sticky, smelly mess! :eek:
You don't have to clean the decking. Only condemned women and their executioner is going to walk on it. Not many people care what the executioner thinks and after the women is put to death they never complain...
 
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