Erotic helplessness : a study of the history of the Damsel in Distress theme in art

[supplice]

Don’t forget all the women and girls burned for witchcraft.

The legal minimum age for severe punishments were not applicable...

Yes, there are numerous documents cited in books on the "Witch craze" that mention children (mostly girls) as young as 10 or 12 who were executed as witches. Some were hanged; some were burned. In Germany, it was as bad in the Protestant areas as in the Catholic lands. Scotland and some of the Calvinist territories were affected, and some Catholic bishoprics and territorial states due to the influence of the princes (Presbyterian James of Scotland; Catholic Maximillian of Bavaria).

It was Mass hysteria and mass psychosis facilitated by official policy and law. This lasted from the late 16th century until about the 1630s.

 

[mysterybadger]

Hence the old saying, 'See Nipples and die!'

A tactic frequently deployed by Modesty Blaise who called it "the Nailer".

 

[gerembeau]

 

[mysterybadger]

Modesty Blaise: the "Nailer" in action:

 

[mysterybadger]

Female nIhilists and ther fates.
The last pic is by Paul Merwart , one of the few painters to be killed by a volcano.

 

[coldturkey]

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I don't believe I've seen number 3 before... Do you know what it is from ?

 

[Eulalia]

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#5 shares its French title with a famous pamphlet by W. E. Gladstone, attacking Disraeli's government then in power for its indifference to 'The Bulgarian Atrocities'.

 

[Eulalia]

A tactic frequently deployed by Modesty Blaise who called it "the Nailer".

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In case anyone missed the allusion, I was punning on 'See Naples and die', vedi Napoli e poi muori

 

[ducon007]

I don't believe I've seen number 3 before... Do you know what it is from ?

Porbably from here, with #2 also:

How the Female Russian Nihilist Became a Tenacious Archetype

A sensational story about a Russian nihilist bomb plot gripped the imagination of the French reading public for a week in the autumn of 1906. The biggest...

jordanrussiacenter.org

 

[ducon007]

"La Femme Damnée"
(The Damned Woman)
By Octave Tassaert

 

[coldturkey]

Porbably from here, with #2 also:

How the Female Russian Nihilist Became a Tenacious Archetype

A sensational story about a Russian nihilist bomb plot gripped the imagination of the French reading public for a week in the autumn of 1906. The biggest...

jordanrussiacenter.org

I meant @gerembeau 's number 3

 

[supplice]

#5 shares its French title with a famous pamphlet by W. E. Gladstone, attacking Disraeli's government then in power for its indifference to 'The Bulgarian Atrocities'.

I believe that Benj Disraeli had little interest in "Balkans Xtians," because any involvement of Britain in The Balkans carried no benefit to Britain. Those turbulent, lands were best left on their own. Bismarck felt the same. There were no circumstances in the Balkans that justified German intervention in such a distant and primitive geography:

"The Balkans are not worth the bones of a single German grenadier." (How 1914 would change that!)

 

[gerembeau]

 

[Loxuru]

Professor @Barbaria1 Moore has once Moore exceeded her research budgets, and is punished in front ofher peers!

 

[ducon007]

I meant @gerembeau 's number 3

Oups...!

 

[ducon007]

"La Femme Damnée"
(The Damned Woman)
By Octave Tassaert

And another version, a little better achieved...

 

[Barabbas]

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What is the history behind #2 and #3?

 

[gerembeau]

What is the history behind #2 and #3?

Can be seen in a french book so called "museum of supplices" by Rolland Villeneuve.
"Flaying of a cheating persian woman with the participation of her husband"

 

[gerembeau]

 

[ducon007]

What is the history behind #2 and #3?

Can be seen in a french book so called "museum of supplices" by Rolland Villeneuve.
"Flaying of a cheating persian woman with the participation of her husband"

I remember this real Bible! And the fascination with which I read it when it was first published (1971)...
The good old days!