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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Peace Initiatives in Ireland: A Reply to Adrian Kent
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Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 17:07:21 EST
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> 	It was also a "crime" for a Catholic priest to celebrate the Mass.
> The penalty for that "crime" was that the "criminal" was hanged, drawn and
> quartered. I assume you know what hanging is. Drawing and quartering meant
> that you stretched a person out on the ground and hacked his or her body
> into four roughly equal but extremely bloody pieces. This was meant to
> **> TERRORIZE <** the audience. 

	It's worse than that. "Drawing" is a term that butchers and hunters
well know - it refers to the evisceration of an animal, or in this case,
a human being. The person was laid out, cut open while alive and had their
intestines withdrawn from the abdominal cavity and usually thrown in
the dirt. The quartering was often done by tying a person's four limbs to
four horses in a cross-roads, and then driving the horses apart such that
the victim was rent asunder.

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jcpatilla