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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Clerics of Loviatar, the goddess of pain and torture, are directed to self-flagellate while praying for spells.

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Clerics of Loviatar, the goddess of pain and torture, are directed to self-flagellate while praying for spells.spells.
** Drow use whips and scourges to control their slaves. The artwork tends to have a significant amount of {{fanservice}} involved, with art of a female dark elf in tight-fitting leather armor threatening a shirtless male human or elf being rather common. The dark elves are also known for using a lot of magical whips that have enchantments that let them deliver extra pain without actually increasing the injury to the victim or a particularly nasty magical scourge that will automatically strike its wielder should they miss an attack any time it's wielded by a non-dark elf, so as to make it harder for slaves to use it against their masters during a slave revolt.
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* ''Literature/CudjosCave'': The Confederates liberally employ whipping against anyone they want to punish or get information from, such as a slave named Pete they find walking between plantations without a pass and Dan Pepperill for treating Pete's wounds.
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* ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'': In episode 9, Najica is briefly subjected to this after she's found out while she's infiltrating the Lion of Gilda's base. She gets the chance to escape since the government military forces begin to move towards them, forcing the soldiers to flee for their lives.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Blood Wedding", Barnaby goes to question TheVicar only to find him flagellating himself in church.

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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Blood Wedding", "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E2 Blood Wedding]]", Barnaby goes to question TheVicar only to find him flagellating himself in church.

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* David Feintuch's ''Literature/SeafortSaga'' series about the damned Captain Nicholas Seafort has constant floggings of the adolescent cadets and midshipmen - pretty expected since though it is a story about interstellar space vessels, it is based on "Hornblower" and other Napoleonic sea tales.



* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': An important part of Kvothe's legend building in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' is when he is flogged as a punishment at the Academy - he takes a drug beforehand to dull the pain, which has the side effect of constricting the blood vessels and causing him not to bleed - earning him the nickname "Bloodless".



* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': An important part of Kvothe's legend building in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' is when he is flogged as a punishment at the Academy - he takes a drug beforehand to dull the pain, which has the side effect of constricting the blood vessels and causing him not to bleed - earning him the nickname "Bloodless".



* This happens three times to Jamie in Diana Gabaldon's ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' series. The scars from the whipping are meant to mark a person as a criminal.

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* This happens three times to Jamie in Diana Gabaldon's ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' series. The scars from the whipping are meant to mark a person as a criminal. Jamie's are extensive enough that his brother-in-law Ian mentions that "not an inch of your back" is unscarred.


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* David Feintuch's ''Literature/SeafortSaga'' series about the damned Captain Nicholas Seafort has constant floggings of the adolescent cadets and midshipmen - pretty expected since though it is a story about interstellar space vessels, it is based on "Hornblower" and other Napoleonic sea tales.
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Note that people can and have been flogged ''to death''. Given that the tip of a whip can easily break the sound barrier, a hundred lashes can easily kill, especially with a knout. (In the British Army during the Napoleonic era, the maximum number of lashes a soldier could be sentenced was ''one thousand two hundred'', but then British whips were less hardcore than the Continental ones and the sentence would often be reduced anyway.[[note]]The Napoleonic years were toward the end of the years of the "Bloody Code," when Britain's criminal laws frequently mandated punishments ''far'' in excess of proportion (including death for things like stealing anything worth more than twelve pence); as a result, British judges, both civilian and military, were accustomed to handing down extremely severe sentences and then passing along a notice that clemency was to be granted as a matter of course.[[/note]]) Even if you don't die in the process, a good traditional flogging will often result in you dying from your wounds and/or infection shortly after. This is the sort of flogging that was a popular form of punishment in Imperial Russia, in particular, where they used particularly coarse leather for these purposes. Due to this, it was also traditional to pay the executioner to go easy on someone, which still hurt like hell but generally wasn't fatal. It should also be noted that even if a victim survived a severe flogging, they could end up crippled for life, and in an era of single-income-earner families and little in the way of accessible charity on a large scale, this could leave the victim's family destitute.

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Note that people can and have been flogged ''to death''. Given that the tip of a whip can easily break the sound barrier, a hundred lashes can easily kill, especially with a knout. (In the British Army during the Napoleonic era, the maximum number of lashes a soldier could be sentenced was ''one thousand two hundred'', but then British whips were less hardcore than the Continental ones and the sentence would often be reduced anyway.[[note]]The Napoleonic years were toward the end of the years of the "Bloody Code," when Britain's criminal laws frequently mandated punishments ''far'' in excess of proportion (including death for things like stealing anything worth more than twelve pence); as a result, British judges, both civilian and military, were accustomed to handing down extremely severe sentences and then passing along a notice that clemency was to be granted as a matter of course.[[/note]]) Even if you don't die in the process, a good traditional flogging will often result in you dying from your wounds and/or infection shortly after. And even if neither of those happened, you would be left with massive scarring, along with the negative social status which went along with it should anyone else ever see it. This is the sort of flogging that was a popular form of punishment in Imperial Russia, in particular, where they used particularly coarse leather for these purposes. Due to this, it was also traditional to pay the executioner to go easy on someone, which still hurt like hell but generally wasn't fatal. It should also be noted that even if a victim survived a severe flogging, they could end up crippled for life, and in an era of single-income-earner families and little in the way of accessible charity on a large scale, this could leave the victim's family destitute.
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* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': During the second episode, [[{{Ninja}} Chiho]] gets captured by [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Jahana Group]] and is punished for spying on them. When she regains consciousness, she finds her wrists have been bound above her head and that she's been stripped down to her panties. [[TortureTechnician Siritahi]] proceeds to whip her mercilessly, by not allowing her to pass out, then [[{{Brainwash}} gives her an injection to enslave her.]]

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* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': During In the second episode, [[{{Ninja}} Chiho]] gets is captured by [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Jahana Group]] and is punished for spying on them. When she regains consciousness, she finds that her wrists have been bound above her head and that she's been stripped down to her panties. [[TortureTechnician Siritahi]] proceeds to whip her mercilessly, by not allowing her to pass out, then [[{{Brainwash}} [[{{Brainwashed}} gives her an injection to enslave her.]]her]].



* ''Anime/LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini'': [[EffeminateMisogynisticGuy Sadachiyo]] subjects [[MsFanservice Fujiko]] to this type of torture, after she's caught snooping around [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jean Pierre]]]]'s hideout.

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* ''Anime/LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini'': [[EffeminateMisogynisticGuy Sadachiyo]] subjects [[MsFanservice Fujiko]] to this type of torture, torture after she's caught snooping around [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jean Pierre]]]]'s hideout.



-->'''Uruk:''' "There now!" he laughed, flicking at their legs.\\

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