test please delete

[Let-Me-In]

Your forum needs YOU...

[DS23]

good job i've had lunch already...

[The Lone Gunman]

I was under the impression that drawn meant having the stomache sliced open and then having ones guts "drawn" out in front of you.


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[PRC1964]

h,d & q usually meant and open cart "drawn" through the streets, stripped naked, hung until nearly dead, castrated (or emasculated - there's debate over that too), then beheaded, then quartered. quartered means neck (head gone already) to crotch and at the waist. each quarter would then be sent to sundry places for viewing and the head stuck on a pole somewhere.

It's too good for Tony Blair. We'd need a nastier version.

[DS23]

[QUOTE=The Lone Gunman]I was under the impression that drawn meant having the stomache sliced open and then having ones guts "drawn" out in front of you.[QUOTE]

true, true. i'd forgotten that one.

[DS23]

It's too good for Tony Blair. We'd need a nastier version.

skinned alive first like cambyses?

[wobbegong]

h,d & q usually meant and open cart "drawn" through the streets, stripped naked, hung until nearly dead, castrated (or emasculated - there's debate over that too), then beheaded, then quartered. quartered means neck (head gone already) to crotch and at the waist. each quarter would then be sent to sundry places for viewing and the head stuck on a pole somewhere.

No, the sequence is wrong, this would be "drawn, hung and quartered".

TLG is correct, the person was hung until nearly dead (but still conscious), then their abdomen was slit open and their innards 'drawn' out before being beheaded and hacked into quarters. I seem to recall that as an entertaining 'variety act' for the crowd, the 'drawing' could involve opening the chest and extracting heart, and showing it to the person while it was still beating.

[scooby]

we still posting on here for some reason?

[DS23]

yup agree. iirc the gibson film showed wallace being stretched rather than emasculated.. or maybe that was the dissemboweling contraption that was used.

[DS23]

we still posting on here for some reason?

yes. a big ol' test.