Cold or red-hot, the four claws slowly ripped to formless masses the breasts of countless
women condemned for heresy, blasphemy, adultery and many other “libidinous
acts”, self-induced abortion, erotic white magic and other crimes. In various places
at various times –in some regions of France and Germany until the early nineteenth
century– a “bite” with a red-hot ripper was inflicted upon one breast of
unmarried mothers, often whilst their creatures, splattered with maternal blood, writhed
on the ground at their feet.
Besides the punitive function, breast-ripping also served as an interrogational and juridical procedure.
West WingCalliope's Private Chambers
Lower DungeonChildren of the Night, Demons
