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Scaphism, also known as the boats, was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death. The name comes from the Greek word skaphe, meaning "scooped (or hollowed) out".

 

The naked person was firmly fastened within a face-to-face pair of narrow rowing boats (or a hollowed-out tree trunk), with the head, hands and feet protruding. The condemned was forced to ingest milk and honey to the point of developing severe diarrhea, and more honey would be rubbed on his body to attract insects to the exposed appendages. He or she would then be left to float on a stagnant pond or be exposed to the sun. The defenseless individual's feces accumulated within the container, attracting more insects, which would eat and breed within his or her exposed and increasingly gangrenous flesh. The feeding would be repeated each day in some cases to prolong the torture, so that dehydration or starvation did not provide him or her with the release of death. Death, when it eventually occurred, was probably due to a combination of dehydration, starvation and septic shock. Delirium would typically set in after a few days.

 

In other recorded versions, the insects did not eat the person; biting and stinging insects such as wasps, which were attracted by honey on the body, acted as the torture.

 

Death by scaphism was painful, humiliating and protracted. Plutarch writes in his biography of Artaxerxes that Mithridates, sentenced to die in this manner for killing Cyrus the Younger, survived 17 days before dying.[1]

 

[edit] Similar practices

A barrel pillory, or Spanish mantle, torture method is quite similar. A barrel is fitted over the entire body, with the head sticking out from a hole in the top. The person is kept locked in the barrel, forcing him to kneel in his own filth.

Simpler installations to the same end have been reported among Native American tribes, such as immobilizing the condemned, smearing him, and leaving him to voracious ants. Dehydration would set in within a few days. Richard Krousher writes that honey should be rubbed with especial care in the mouth, eyes, ears, genitals, anus and between the toes.

In early historic times in Siberia, a condemned prisoner would be tied naked to a tree and left to slowly die through starvation and blood loss from mosquitoes, horseflies and other insects.

Richard Sair refers to one case in modern China in which a man was allegedly chained up outside where the mosquitoes bit him.[2]

The book Papillon describes how a particularly brutal guard was captured, tied down over a nest of fire ants and left to be eaten alive

 

 

 

nam sayin though? most brutal way to go imo...persians and iranians are some fucked up ass people

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i wish it was back in the day when it was still exceptable to slap a bitch if she got out of line or burnt the roast or something,without constant scrutiny from the police and society in general.....

 

 

 

 

its no coincidence my favorite actors are mel gibson and charlie sheen.hot shots was a classic.no doubt.

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