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Study 052 - The Penance
🕑 Added 2023-07-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTCA month of chilling children concludes with The Penance by Saki!
Special thanks to reader Rafe Ball! Dig on his Librivox recordings here.
You can also find his episode guide for The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast and Strange Studies of Strange Stories in spreadsheet format here.
Next up: a bonus episode on animated film The Doom That Came to Gotham.
Comments
Gary Smith
Thanks, I'll definitely be checking out your recordings.
Just a note that my full reading of “The Penance” is now available on Librivox as a part of their Short Ghost and Horror Collection 69: https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-069-by-various/
Steve
Hanging in chains is the same as gibbetting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbeting), with occasional roasting. It was reserved for the worst crimes such as murder or piracy or treason. Those accused of witchcraft were never burned for witchcraft in England (or the USA I think). They were hanged. One was burned, in her case for murdering her husband which was considered treason, which was a greater crime than employing witchcraft.
