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395 Name: ((●)トェェェイ(●)) : 1993-09-10395 18:32

try guessing where this one's from! TickleChgo

Sep 26, 1998, 12:00:00 AM
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Here is a repost of some tickled to death stories I posted a long, long time
ago (that may have been my first ever post!):

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TICKLED TO DEATH

In the 1884 book, Vie Sahara, Jacques de Beaunay wrote of the treatment
sheiks accorded unfaithful wives: "Sheep were slaughtered and a great feast
was laid. ... The wretched creature [the unfaithful wife], who was
surprisingly pretty, had been stripped well nigh naked. The attendants
seated her in a high place, bound her, and then proceeded to tickle the soles
of her feet with feathers. At first she laughed, a fearful, frightened laugh
tinged with hysteria.

"The sheik and his guests, gorging themselves the while on rich foods, laid
wagers on how long the doomed woman should survive the inhuman ordeal.

"As hour after hour passed, the tickling of the woman's feet continued
unabated. Gradually her uncontrollable laughter changed. It was a
demoniacal thing! She writhed and squirmed in attempts to free herself, but
her bonds held her fast. She screamed through her laughter, until, toward
the end, she was seized with convulsions, and died shortly after. It was
almost dawn."

An article entitled "Ticklishness is No Laughing Matter", Popular Science,
April, 1961, states that a Dr. Sandor S. Feldman of the University of
Rochester Medical Center, NY, "speaks of people being tortured by tickling
during religious persecutions in Cevennes, in Southern France, in 1760. Some
of these may have been tickled to death--by being thrown into fatal
convulsions or suffering a heart attack from the strain of the ordeal." It
states that another authority "notes that many Roman gladiators died
laughing--a reflex action from wounds in the abdomen, a touchy part of the
body."

An article in Esquire entitled "All Right What is a Laugh, Anyway" by
Richard Selzer (July, 19??) states: "If he does not stop [tickling], you may
die of it. In medieval Germany, in Rotenburg an der Fulda, people did.
There, in that place, prisoners were trussed in metal or leather to restrict
expansion of the chest. Salt was rubbed on feet; goats were invited to lick
it off."

In an article entitled "The Biology of Laughter" printed in Psychoanalytic
Review (Summer, 1966), Joost A. M. Meerloo states: "The Romans used tickling
as a cruel punishment. On the scaffold the soles of a victim's feet were
covered with a salt solution so that a goat, attracted by the salt, would
lick it off with his rough tongue and continually tickle the skin. By so
doing, the salty skin was gradually rasped away. Then, the wounded skin
would again be covered with the biting salt solution--ad infinitum, till the
victim died from the torture." This article also provides further details on
the physiological reasons why some people can die from prolonged fits of
laughter.

In "Psychology of Sex," Havelock Ellis quotes Prof. A. Allin "On Laughter,"
Psychology Review (May, 1903): "A number of instances have been recorded of
death resulting from tickling, and there is no reason to doubt the truth of
the statement that Simon de Montfort, during the persecution of the
Albigenses, put some of them to death by tickling the soles of their feet
with a feather."
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