Sounds a bit like the Viking Gold Eagle sentence
-—fire just big enough: It’s been done before. The book Savage Kingdom well describes how the northeast Indians disposed of killers and rapists in the early 1600’s. Spread eagle them. Build a fire where they could see it. Then start slicing off pieces, tendons first, and throwing them into the fire. Last thing was the scalp, peeled off, back to front, so the last thing the dummy saw was his own face burning. It was important to have another captive, not a tribe member, watch so he could spread the word about the price of being a dumbass.
Sounds a bit like the Viking Gold Eagle sentence
It wasn’t just evil doers who were tortured thusly; captive settlers also sometimes received this treatment.
Re: Savage Kingdom. Are you talking about the book about Jamestown? I have that book. The description of what happened to those men at the hands of theVirginia Indians was more along the lines of spread-eagling them between trees and then the tribal women went to work with sharpened mussel shells, skinning them alive and peeling them apart like an onion—muscles and tendons, etc. A horrific torture and death that even the English (masters of torture) couldn’t comprehend. Historians leave this scene out when describing the brutal ways in which John Smith responded. There was a reason he did what he did.