Parading on donkey

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A print of a man being paraded on a donkey as punishment for being battered by his wife.

Parading on a donkey is a traditional psychological punishment, consisting in a public humiliation.

Scope

  • In
    Uttaramerur indicate that parading on donkey was a punishment for offences such as incest, adultery, theft and forgery.[3] The Supreme Court of India has declared khap panchayats and their punishments as illegal.[4]
  • In a legend Empress Beatrice of Holy Roman Empire was forced to ride a donkey backwards through the city of Milan after being taken captive by Milanese.[5]
  • In the
    Ancien Régime
    tradition too (long continued, even in former colonies), criminals were often transported publicly to the place of their ordeal.
  • In post-Renaissance France society ridiculed and humiliated husbands thought to be battered and/or dominated by their wives. A battered husband was trotted around town riding a donkey backwards while holding its tail.[7]
  • According to the Christian
    Biblical prophecy
    . In this case, the donkey parade was not a punishment but a messianic action in a modest variation as a symbol of meekness, alternatively deliberately designed to fulfill such a prophecy.
  • The Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' used to parade on a donkey across Red Square on Palm Sunday, with the Tsar leading the donkey on foot.[8]
  • In the movie Kingdom of Heaven the defeated Christian king Guy of Lusignan is paraded before Jerusalem on a donkey by the Muslim army commanded by Saladin.
  • In the TV series
    Barbarians
    Germanicus Maximus is led by the Germans in front of jeering Roman troops. Season 2- Episode 06

See also

References

  1. ^ https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/khap-panchayat-issues-diktat-to-rape-and-parade-two-dalit-women-naked-289507-2015-08-21
  2. ^ https://theprint.in/india/were-told-wed-be-paraded-naked-after-5-yr-social-boycott-of-haryana-family-khap-members-booked/1781468/
  3. ISBN 978-81-8424-568-4
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  4. ^ https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/supreme-court-declares-khap-panchayats-illegal/310063
  5. ^ Walford, Edward; Cox, John Charles; Apperson, George Latimer (1885). "Digit folklore, part II". The Antiquary. XI: 119–123.
  6. ^ "Iran sentences three youth to flogging, jail", in: Iran Focus, 21 November 2005 (illustrated)
  7. S2CID 146762512
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  8. ^ Bushkovitch, p. 181


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