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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Carding is a sometimes-fatal form of torture in which iron combs of the sort originally designed as woolcarding tools are used to scrape, tear, and flay the victim's flesh. The iron carding combs typically used for torture were sturdy instruments with one or two rows of teeth, each a few inches in length and designed to prepare wool and other fibres for worsted-spun thread. Used for combing rough fibres, these instruments resembled miniature garden rakes rather than the modern, short-toothed carders that are used to prepare wool for spinning and which resemble brushes for dog grooming. The tradition that a torturous death by carding with a kanphos was inflicted by Croesus, was recorded by Herodotus. Later mentions from the Middle East and Asia Minor often associate carding with heroic martyrdom for the sake of belief in the Abrahamic God and loyalty to ones Jewish, Christian, or Muslim faith. Specific episodes of carding are mentioned in the Talmud and in the martyrologies of several Christian saints, notably Saint Blasius, whose iconic attribute was the carding-comb. Khabbab ibn al-Aratt, a companion of Muhammad and one of the first ten persons to convert to Islam, taught that a man should remain faithful to Islam even if his flesh should be torn away from his bones with an iron comb. In the 6th century BC, when Croesus's half-brother Pantaleon failed to seize and hold the throne of the Lydian Empire, one of his supporters was captured. According to the description given by Herodotus, Croesus tortured the life out of his captive by having him "hauled over a carding-comb." As described in the Mishnah, Akiba ben Joseph, a Judean tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century, said the Shema p... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5338419


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158247011
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 54 gr
  • ISBN-10: 115824701X
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Carding, Rack, Scaphism, Apega of Nabis, Brazen Bull, Catapelta
  • Width: 229 mm


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