Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26027160-20150226095604/@comment-25597074-20150228232946

Oh I saw one of those at the Ripley museum! They'd execute the prisoner and then stringmup the corpse at the city gates so that all who entered the city would see the gastly tortured corpse and think twice about commuting crimes. However they only came into existence at around the 19 century and were not used by the church. The barrel of shame is the closest thing used by the church but it was for public humiliation not execution. I go to church and the priest hasn't made me confess to her.....yet! Nice poem by the way. Maybe call it the Maidens Embrace? Or Deaths Maid/Maiden?