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- Title
DRINKING OF BLOOD, BURNING OF WOMEN.
- Authors
BREEZE, ANDREW
- Abstract
The article discusses the practices of the drinking of human blood, which occurs in a prophecy of King Arthur's fame, and the burning of women traitors as a punishment in the poem "Brutonum" by Lawman. Evidence from Irish literature is presented of the motifs of heroic cannibalism and warriors drunk on their lord's blood. Records of the 17th- and 18th-centuries are given that show the crimes for which women were burnt such as political high treason, and the grisliness of the burning of women.
- Subjects
BLOOD; TRAITORS; IRISH literature; IRISH literature (English); CANNIBALISM; CRIMES against women; TREASON
- Publication
DQR Studies in Literature, 2013, Vol 52, Issue 1, p215
- ISSN
0921-2507
- Publication type
Article