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Mutilation Mutiny (See REBELLION.) Absyrtus hacked to death; body pieces strewn about. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 3] had breasts cut off. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 34]
female warriors cut or burnt off their right breasts to prevent interference when drawing the bow. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 29] slew his brother Thyestes’s sons and served them to their father at banquet. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 153] Philistine idol; falls, losing head and hands. [O.T.: I Samuel 5:1–4] at Christ’s betrayal, Peter cut off soldier’s ear. [Christian Symbolism: N.T.: John 18:10] disemboweled, windlass used to wind entrails out of his body. [Art: Daniel, 95] besieged, the starving Janissaries cut off and eat a buttock from each woman, including Cunegonde, beloved of Candide. [Fr. Lit.: Voltaire Candide] (late 19th century) dissected his victims. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 463] her tongue is cut out to prevent her from testifying to the evil deeds she has witnessed. [Br. Lit.: Shakespeare Titus Andronicus] short story in which mangled son is brought back to life as is to greedy, foolish old couple with three wishes. [Brit. Lit.: Benét, 511] violated by Tereus, king of Thrace; he cuts out her tongue to prevent her from revealing his conduct. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 783] made travelers fit bed by stretching or lopping off their legs. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 221] split victims by fastening them between two bent pines and then letting the pines spring upright. [Gk. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 1005] cuts off Philomela’s tongue to prevent her telling he has raped her. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 995] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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When they heard Napoleon's proclamation offering them, as compensation for mutilation and death, the words of posterity about their having been in the battle before Moscow, they cried "Vive l'Empereur Tiny mentioned this mutilation quite casually--didn't seem sensitive about it. That he was already dead I could not but be convinced, and yet I would have saved his body from mutilation at the hands of the Apaches as quickly as I would have saved the man himself from death. |
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