History Main / ATasteOfTheLash

** Shi'a [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslims]] whip themselves as part of the annual period of mourning for the first ten days of the Muslim year, commemorating the martyrdom of their Third Imam, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali Husayn ibn Ali]], at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karbala Battle of Karbala]] in Iraq.

* Precia Testarossa establishes herself as a ''supremely'' EvilMatriarch and quite possibly the cruelest villain in the entire ''{{Nanoha}}'' series by doing this to Fate with the whip form of her Intelligent Device during her introduction scene. [[spoiler:Sure she is insane, but her FreudianExcuse is not justifiable with her cruelty with Fate.]]

* Precia Testarossa establishes herself as a ''supremely'' EvilMatriarch and quite possibly the cruelest villain in the entire ''{{Nanoha}}'' series by doing this to Fate with the whip form of her Intelligent Device during her introduction scene.

* This happens to Nicole in ''Ever After'' after she attacks her stepsister.

** not to mention all his mooks, slaves, and Wormmon.

** In ''Empire of Ivory'' Laurence is flogged while being held prisoner. We don't know how bad it is since it's from his perspective and he loses count at around ten, but he ends up being delirious for a week.

* In ''[[{{Temeraire}} Empire of Ivory]]'' Laurence is flogged and winds up nearly unconscious for several days.

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* The orc musical, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y Where There's A Whip, There's a Way.]] from the children's animated ''[[Animated/TheReturnOfTheKing Return Of The King]]''.

* In 1994, an American tourist named Michael Fay was arrested for theft and vandalism in Singapore, and wound up getting publicly caned.

Lastly, [[RuleThirtyFour some people use flogging as a means of sexual gratification.]] Naturally, in such uses, the flogging never approaches the violence levels reached during a punitive whipping. Such activity commonly causes bruising, but almost never breaks the skin or cuts the recipient, who is after all trying to enjoy himself.

** Flogging also remains a viable legal punishment in several Muslim countries.

Lastly, some people use flogging as a means of sexual gratification. Naturally, in such uses, the flogging never approaches the violence levels reached during a punitive whipping. Such activity commonly causes bruising, but almost never breaks the skin or cuts the recipient, who is after all trying to enjoy himself.

Note that people can and have been flogged ''to death''. A hundred lashes can easily kill, especially with a Knout. 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.

* Bootstrap Bill Turner is forced to flog his son Will in ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest''.

** Shi'a [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslims]] whip themselves as part of the annual period of mourning for the first ten days of the Muslim year, commemorating the martyrdom of their Third Imam, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali Husayn ibn Ali]], at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karbala Battle of Karbala]] in Iraq.

* Not quite flogging, but the {{Discworld}} novel ''Maskerade'' cites an incident where Granny Weatherwax caught a traveling peddlar beating his exhausted, overloaded donkey. She grabbed the riding crop out of his hands and used it to strike his face twice, saying "Hurts, doesn't it?"

* British law actually held a distinction between whipping (to be beaten with a whip) and flogging (to be beaten with a cat-o-nine-tails. Both were abolished in Britain in 1948.