ABSTRACT
Intimate connection between religion and flagellation — Submissive acceptance of floggings by worshippers and fanatics—Flagellation among the Lacedaemonians—Flogging the general form of punishment in all monasteries and nunneries—“Superior discipline” and “inferior discipline” — Vindictive nature of many floggings — Manner of flagellating—Regulations respecting the whipping of nuns—Terrible scourge devised by Jeanne de France—Whipping among the Jesuits—Hallucinations caused by whipping—Strange case of Magdalena of Pazzi.
