The method of execution known as scaphism is some sincerely funky and evil shit. Practiced in ancient Persia, the name is a combination of the Greek word skaphe and the Latin word for boats.

A man who had sufficiently fucked the rule of law enough to rate a dispatch by scaphism was stripped of clothing and bound up tightly; secured within a trough or small canoe-like boat. He was then force-fed milk and honey until a situation of extreme diarrhea had been reached. The condemned was then rubbed down with more honey and then set afloat in stagnant water, exposed to the sun.

Insects would be attracted to the honey covering the body, biting and stinging him and as feces accumulated in the boat, the bugs would begin laying eggs and starting a happy little community amongst the shit as well as in the man’s flesh.

Death, from a combination of dehydration, starvation and septic shock probably came a very long time after the prisoner went completely fucking insane (as I know I would).

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