(Continued from The
Breast Punishment Primer - Part I)
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The Malleus Maleficarum,
a manual purported
by some to have been read more widely than the bible, and arguably seen
as the authority during the entire 250 years of the
Inquisition,
went into great detail on the process by which witches were located,
interrogated,
and tortured. When discussing the breasts and nipples, the two
holy
priests that wrote it noted that they were "extremely sensitive, on
account
of the refinement of the veins."
In actuality, it is
widely accepted that
both the secular and pious souls that did the torturing probably
enjoyed
every moment. And when their enjoyment became too obvious, and
the
pup tent was pitched, they simply said that the hapless "witch" had
cast
a spell on them, and proceeded to lay waste to the tormented bosom that
much more.
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I'm not using the term "lay waste"
metaphorically.
Many of the toys and torments I'm about to talk about have been
documented
over and over again in the annals of time. Others rely a bit more
on speculation, but I haven't found anyone yet that would argue against
the probability that I'm right. It doesn't take a rocket
scientist,
after all.
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find used by our
medieval tit torturers were such things as the cat claw.
This metal claw was used
to rake flesh,
in most cases turning a pair of tits into something basically
resembling
shredded wheat. While we'd never condone this practice, the
Inquistitors
had pretty much been given carte blanche, and they had an unlimited
supply
of witches from whom to choose. After all, they had only to pick
a lovely pair of breasts and grease some lying palm before the
accusations
would fly and their
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divine work was at hand.
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Now, while the cat claw
could be used
on body parts besides the breasts, the breast ripper had just
one
use - hence the name. Since there were a variety of sizes
of
breasts from which to choose, so came a variety of sizes of
rippers.
But regardless of size, their intended use couldn't be mistaken.
Placed against the base of the breast and twisted and... well, it
doesn't
take a genius to figure that one out. As an added bonus, they
frequently
stored them in hot coals until their use so as to heat the metal red or
white hot. No, it wasn't to keep them sterile to avoid infection.
The cousin of the breast
ripper was called the
spider. This ingenious little gadget worked the same way, but
it could be adjusted so that smaller targets could be coerced.
Instead
of latching into the whole breasts, devout men could
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concentrate on just the tips,
playing rough
with a fine nipple and areola until the evil witch confessed, typically
just after she was divested of said nipple.
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torturer frequently
bit or otherwise chewed on the witches nipple before applying any of
these
friendly devices, ostensibly to make them more tender and ripe for a
quicker
confession once the spider was applied.
Not every holy torturer
preferred such
blatant rending. For the more subtle ones, there were a wide
variety
of crushing devices. Among them was a very large and heavy wooden
spiked device that had originally been made to puree hands and
feet.
There's little doubt that other uses were found that catered to those
with
fetishes of the
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non-foot kind.
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Just like the shredding
and ripping devices,
clamping tools came in a variety of sizes in order to cater to the
needs
of the holy torturer. If a priest, in his infinite wisdom,
believed
that it would be best to extract a confession by way of only the nipple
and its surrounds, instead of through the whole tamale, then the
thumbscrew
worked quite well. Designed to play havoc with the digits,
nipples
and areola frequently found themselves the subject of Inquisitional
puree,
as it were.
By now you might see why
so many women
confessed to being witches. If this had been modern times, we'd
have
been able to find the Lindbergh baby's kidnapper, learn the truth
behind
the Kennedy assassination, and get the real scoop about Area 51 with
just
the removal of a bra.
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Those of us familiar with modern
day, politically
correct tit torture, have
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similarities between
the toys used in the enlightened times of the Crusades and today's more
barbaric BDSM play. And with those similarities, I'd be remiss if
I didn't mention many a dom's favorite pastime - flogging. Now,
while
we usually stick with the pansy-ass stuff, those educated priests
really
knew how to flog, and metal was the flagellating material of
choice.
They called these
chain-made floggers,
"scourges." Most of them were simply wooden handles with several
lengths of chain attached. The more ingenious of the bunch might
attach spiked balls to the ends, or for the really up and coming, the
entire
chain would be spiked, rather like barbed wire.
I think the operative phrase
for any unfortunate
breast owner that found herself the object of attention for one of
these
would be, "Witch? Me? Oh, yeah!"
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Like everything else
we've talked about
with modern equivalents, other fun torments we use today found their
roots
way back when. Piercing, for example, was also a prevalent method
of witch torture. Since sterile needles weren't in fashion,
anything
sharp and pointy usually served. And while the truly adventurous
among us might dabble in the occasional fish hook through the nubbin,
these
guys much preferred the meat hooking variety. Not to be barbaric,
all of these, like the rippers, were often subject to hot coals.
And if the implements weren't, then the pert objects of their attention
may well have been.
Another fun toy used to
keep "witches"
at arm's length -- at least in public -- in the belief that it was
dangerous
for the morally upright to touch a "witch," was
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Catcher" Several different
devices have borne the same name, but in this case it was essentially a
type of modified pole-arm. The point was used to push the
accused,
while the hook was used to bring the accused back to control. The
protective phrase "Jesus Nazarenum and Ave Maria" was frequently
inscribed
upon the hook for further protection.
The witch catcher wasn't
the only pole
arm that could be used to toy with tits. Soldiers with spears
regularly
toyed with the targets that tended to attract the most attention, and
while
it's a little known fact that most women were crucified facing
the
cross, breasts could be had from any direction.
One of the most notorious
devices of any
era was the guillotine, invented in
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the 1700s. What
most people don't
know, is that the guillotine had ancestors made many centuries
earlier.
The Halifax Gibbet was nothing more than an axe head imbedded in a
really
heavy wooden block that was fixed in grooved uprights and dropped on
the
hapless victim. While history recalls most of these victims being
severed at the neck, a variety of these have been made that work on
other
body parts, breasts being a big hit at the many witch hunt carnivals of
the times.
But such devices were
unwieldy, and lacked
the personal touch many distinguished torturers of the time
preferred.
Because of this, other means were devised for more selective nipple and
breast removal. Don't say you're surprised.
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Well before the pliers and vice
grips that
modern day practitioners employ,
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couple of devices that
tended toward a more permanent ending to nipple play. Those were
called the tongue tearers and mutilation shears. Given the names,
I could probably leave what they did to your imagination and move on,
but
that would make this a very short article, wouldn't it? Although
called "tongue tearers," these sharpened plier-like devices were as
likely
to be used on the tips of breasts and given pet names like
"Betty."
Mutilation shears were more like handle-less scissors, and tended to
sever
things a little more quickly.
Both of these playful
tools came with screws
so they could be slowly and deliberately closed, drawing out the fun so
the lucky lady had plenty of time to consider how she might best phrase
her confession for the audience.
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Other types of tongs and pinchers
frequently
found their way into the arsenals of tools used to convince confessions
from the mouths of witches. Fireplace tongs, horseshoing pliers,
and all manner of squishing things were used on nipples and various
other
parts of the female anatomy in order to reach the desired goal.
Keeping the world safe from
paganism and
extracting penance from women who didn't know their own mind was a time
consuming and sometimes dirt job, of course. With laundry maids
likely
becoming a rare commodity, given the large numbers of them that were
witches,
it's speculated that private sessions became clothing-optional affairs,
saving the clergy and the church the cost of cleaning blood and other
body
fluids from the holy garments.
(Continued in The
Breast Punishment Primer - Part 3)
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