breast

Crime & Punishment

THE DEVICES

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SCOLDS BRIDLES or BRANKS

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.

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