Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which the other womenstationed behind laid hold of and threw upon the ground together with the flowers. | A pigeon jvas then let loose; at which signal the victim, standing up, was seized by four of the men, two holding her by the arms which they kept extetided and two by the legs, - while the fifth prepared for the execu- tion: the whole being done without covering the eyes. Some of the most courageous asked for the dagger, which they received in the right hand and passed to the left after respectfully kissing the weapon. They. wounded their right arms, sucked the blood, stained their lips with it and made a bloody mark on the forehead with the