DUNGEON SHOW NOTES
Names:
- Oubliette
- The fear hole
- GOOSEFLESH
- The Landscape of the Gibbet
- GIN AND GINGERBREAD: THE CARNIVAL OF THE GIBBET
- Immurement
- Anchorite
- Bodies of the Damned
- Dried Cat
- Further and FIner mark of Infamy
Notes:
- “The Low German word Verlies is related to “to lose” and entered the written language in the 18th century. An earlier meaning is loss (Dutch: dungeon) and later “to lose oneself”, to become invisible to others.”
- “I don’t know of any other living creature in nature that is so rich in species that would be capable and willing to subject other creatures to such raw and lengthy(!) torture!
With particularly warm regards, Fritz”
- NPC generator
- She ==openly claims to worship Cyric, but secretly worships Asmodeus, God of sin, King of the Nine Hells. (Lawful Evil)==
- ==She is a very good diplomat and always works towards resolution of conflict.==
- ==She has l==ost many friends.
- She ==openly claims to worship Cyric, but secretly worships Asmodeus, God of sin, King of the Nine Hells. (Lawful Evil)==
- Gibbet
- “The chains, the gibbet cages, are person-shaped and they are designed to hold the body together and hold the body into the shape of a person—and there are other features of the gibbet that put it into this really creepy zone between living and dead.”
- Sarah Tarlow, professor of archeology at University of Leicester and head of the Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse research project
- Sarah Tarlow, professor of archeology at University of Leicester and head of the Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse research project
- The Landscape of the Gibbet
- From the Murder Act of 1752 until the Anatomy Act of 1832 it was forbidden to bury the bodies of executed murderers unless they had first been anatomised or ‘hung in chains’ (gibbeted)
- Once in the gibbet the criminal corpse could remain there for many decades, unless the body was stolen by friends or relatives — which was not infrequent despite the risk of transportation attendant on anyone caught removing a body from a gibbet.
- London murderer, William Smith, was gibbeted on Finchley Common in 1782. Smith’s body was the central attraction for more than 40,000 people who came in ‘coaches, chariots, phaeton &c’ as well as on foot to enjoy fried sausages or, for those of less opulent means, gin and gingerbread in a scene of ‘shameful riot and disorder’ (Public Advertiser, 30 April, 1782).
- From the Murder Act of 1752 until the Anatomy Act of 1832 it was forbidden to bury the bodies of executed murderers unless they had first been anatomised or ‘hung in chains’ (gibbeted)
- Immurement
- is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits.
- is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits.
- Anchorite
- someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society to be able to lead an intensely prayer-orientated, ascetic, or Eucharist-focused life.
- “The chains, the gibbet cages, are person-shaped and they are designed to hold the body together and hold the body into the shape of a person—and there are other features of the gibbet that put it into this really creepy zone between living and dead.”
What do you learn by exploring the aesthetic of the damned?
What do you discover by exploring the aesthetic of human chaotic evil?
What comes from considering the lives of the fantastically tortured?
Darkness as a necessary exploration of the mind…
Curse of the Black Pearl
At Worlds End
Dead Mans Chest
Dead Men Tell No Tales
On Stranger Tides
THE CARNIVAL OF THE GIBBET
A decaying of bodies left on display…
“The place of the gibbet was a strange intersection of moral education, demonstration of State power, and public entertainment. The new gibbet attracted huge crowds — estimates of 40,000 people a day are not unusual in contemporary newspaper reports. Such large numbers attracted entrepreneurial individuals who came to sell food and drink. The gibbet became a place for socialising and games: in the newspapers, shocked commentators wrote of the unseemly resemblance to a fair.”
Set to resemble 1700’s euro-american landscape