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Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbeting
TIL that gibbetting was a execution method in Britain where a person was hung in a cage on a gallow and left to die from exposure.
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> *”We shall have peace. We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children who lie dead there! We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers, whose bodies were hewn even as they lay dead against the gates of the Hornburg, are avenged! When you hang from a gibbet, for the sport of your own crows, we shall have peace!”*
Didn’t Val Kilmer almost go down like that in Willow?
Even back then you couldn’t live on exposure. Sorry Ye Olde Influencers.
So then, the surname “Gibson” comes from a family of gibbeters that produced gibbet cages and were known to do a little free lance gibbeting from time to time?
Ok, I have to know, is this where the term Flibberty-Gibbet comes from???
There was a post about these methods being made up by sensationalist people for attention and never actually existed.
It was the Konservative Kristian Thing to Do.