Learned about this last week, thanks to a friend’s deranged late night YouTube habits.
Here's a historical reference for any history buffs out there.
Submitted 8 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b8e2e721-69e4-49fb-a785-ac702f8a35ab.jpeg
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Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i learned it thanks to my deranged late night youtube habits
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [bot] 8 months ago
Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yep, that’s the one.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So many bugs, SO MANY BUGS
BlasserJunge@feddit.de 8 months ago
Not the Bees! AaAaAAAAaaAA
Beardsley@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Explain
Ignisnex@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Damdy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What did they give to vegan torturees?
Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Haha Ctesias that jokester. Always exaggerating stories. Haha, wait he’s joking right?
bleistift2@feddit.de 8 months ago
Looks like you got suggested the same video as I did last night.
incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 8 months ago
YIKES
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Funny story, I got banned from refdit for saying we should do this to child molesters.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nobody should do this to anybody, ever.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Nobody should rape kids either but here we are.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Child molesters are evil but doing this to them is too far.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Yeah no. Fuck that. Fuck you.
TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 8 months ago
NO-
simulacra_simulacrum@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I was supposed to eat, now that I remembered the existence of this practice, I’m not that hungry anymore.
simulacra_simulacrum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can I have your honeyed toast?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Oh god the wikipedia page has some vile descriptions too. Especially the last part for Mithridates
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website 8 months 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.
StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I like how everyone is just ignoring this part:
shneancy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yo what the fuck
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 months 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.