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Q450 Cruel punishments
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- Torture as punishment · Q450.1 entry
- Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.) · Q451 entry
- Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts · Q452 entry
- Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) · Q453 entry
- Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) · Q455 entry
- Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.) · Q456 entry
- Flaying alive as punishment · Q457 entry
- Flogging as punishment · Q458 entry
- Impalement as punishment · Q461 entry
- Crucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.) · Q462 entry
- Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside · Q463 entry
- Covering with honey and exposing to flies · Q464 entry
- Throwing into a pit as punishment · Q465 entry
- Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment · Q466 entry
- Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) · Q467 entry
- Other cruel punishments · Q469 entry