my_own_advocate: (lucifer - cat ate a canary)
Lucifer Morningstar ([personal profile] my_own_advocate) wrote in [personal profile] okteiviakom 2024-02-11 07:56 pm (UTC)

"Oh, you might actually like this," Lucifer laughed. "So back in medieval times, some criminals who hadn't committed terrible enough crimes to be imprisoned or executed would, instead, be sentenced to public humiliation. A pillory was this contraption made of wood with holes for the hands and the head, and the criminal would be trapped in it for whatever duration of time the local government felt they deserved to be shamed."

He smirked. "And then whoever came by could do whatever they wished."

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