Here's a historical reference for any history buffs out there.

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• simulacra_simulacrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This ancient execution method was also known as “the boats,” as victims were placed in two hollowed-out logs or boats before their suffering even began.

  With their heads and limbs sticking out and their bodies trapped inside, the victim was force-fed milk and honey. Their uncontrollable diarrhea filled the boats as executioners poured honey over the victim’s face — and vermin arrived to not only feast upon the prisoners, but enter their bodies to fatally eat them from the inside out.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was supposed to eat, now that I remembered the existence of this practice, I’m not that hungry anymore.

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    • simulacra_simulacrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can I have your honeyed toast?

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh god the wikipedia page has some vile descriptions too. Especially the last part for Mithridates

    In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The most interesting thing to me is both quoted descriptions talk of vermin and worms “springing forth” from the excrement. It was once thought that things like worms, insects, even mice and rats, would just spawn from various kinds of filth.

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    • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like how everyone is just ignoring this part:

      However, Ctesias’s credibility is questionable due to his reputation for fanciful and exaggerated narratives.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yo what the fuck

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like most of these “oh my God so brutal” execution methods, scaphism probably never actually happened or is at least exaggerated. Ctesias wrote the only first-hand account of the punishment ever being delivered and his credibility among modern historians is a bit… questionable. Plutarch’s own writings on scaphism were lifted straight from Ctesias, as well.

      Even if scaphism did actually happen like Ctesias wrote, it’s not like it was a normal thing.

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• Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Learned about this last week, thanks to a friend’s deranged late night YouTube habits.

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  • TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i learned it thanks to my deranged late night youtube habits

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    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You two should become friends

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  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This one? Because same

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    • Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep, that’s the one.

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• neptune@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hello

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, Neptune

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• RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So many bugs, SO MANY BUGS

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  • BlasserJunge@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not the Bees! AaAaAAAAaaAA

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• Beardsley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s an episode of “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell” that covers this thing, and let me just say boys, that is some of the most fucked up shit.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Explain

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  • Ignisnex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ancient torture/execution method. Tie you to a boat (or trap you between two boats) and stuff you full of milk and honey, then pour some on you for good measure. The idea is that there are many biting insects and unpleasant things that will be attracted to the milk and honey. Being tied/trapped means your hands aren’t free to deal with them. Secondly, a large amount of milk and honey is a really good way to get diarrhea. So eventually, you’ll have to deal with that, and biting insects are more likely to swarm around you if you’re covered in literal shit. The victims usually die from exposure, but they will have an exceedingly unpleasant time before they expire. Very common to have… Soft tissue areas… Completely consumed before death.

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    • Damdy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What did they give to vegan torturees?

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    • viperex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dr. Mrs. The Monarch describes this in an interrogation

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Haha Ctesias that jokester. Always exaggerating stories. Haha, wait he’s joking right?

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• bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like you got suggested the same video as I did last night.

  piped.video/watch?v=ZSXypSLfVN8&t=804

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• incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YIKES

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny story, I got banned from refdit for saying we should do this to child molesters.

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nobody should do this to anybody, ever.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nobody should rape kids either but here we are.

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  • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Child molesters are evil but doing this to them is too far.

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  • tkk13909@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah no. Fuck that. Fuck you.

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• TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  NO-

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