hookswingingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hookswinging (uncountable)

1. A ritualistic form of torture in which a volunteer was hung from hooks attached to the flesh on the back.
   • 1997 January 1, Nicholas B. Dirks, “The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History‎, volume 39, number 1, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, archived from the original on 23 April 2024, page 182:

     In late October 1891, the Madras Mail brought dramatic attention to the fact that “the barbarous and cruel custom of hookswinging to propitiate the Goddess of Rain, which has been obsolete for some time, has been revived at Sholavandan near Madura.”

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