Tickled to Death?
Lur...@webtv.net
I am mostly a lurker, but I have a reasonably good cartoon tickling page
up whose URL is:
http://www.rit.edu/~wwl2461/art.html
On that age is a comic strip of a woman being tickled to death. In the
comic, it takes up to four days before the woman is about to die from
all the tickle torture.
But what I was wondering is if it were possible to literally tickle a
woman to death, and if so, how long would it take?
Please treat the inquiry in the uptmost seriousness, because I'd really
like to know for my next tickle torture comic strip.
Husnock789
college. the limited info I found on tickle torture was this: the Chinese
would completly immoblize a person and suspend them upside down. Tickling
would be by the oposite sex and the ticklers would be specially trained in all
the right spots and methods for tickling. The victim's muscles would spasm
very shortly after the tickoing began and, after an hour at the most, pain
would set in replacing the laughter. The victim would then be continously
tickled until thier diaphram and sometimes even thier heart collapsed due to
the continious motion of the muscles. A variation of this torture was to just
suspend the victim from the amrms or immobilze the feet. The victim would then
have free movement of the rest of thier body and avoid the muscle spams
resulting in total immobilization. The first type of tickle torture was used
as a form of exeuction while the second was a sexual pasttime of Chinese
nobility who would watch peasants giggle and squirm as they had thier feet
tickled.
CliffG37
>woman to death, and if so, how long would it take?
Yes it is possible, there are to ways it can happen
One is if the brain is consistantly not getting enough oxygen, your tickle
victem will suffocate. Cartaken with breaks, and watching closely will allow
the tickler to aviod this problem.
The second is harder to predict. A person being tickled for too long can have
a heart attack. If they are restrained in such a way as to prevent CPR, well,
that would be a foul ending to a scene... You tied them up and you killed
them, you go to jail.
LOL but not too many
Tkletoes
as compared to the ticklers-fantasy beliefs a year or so ago. Actual
accountings and the university books they came from. So maybe he could help you
in your search if he is still available. He sent several of us actual copied
pages at that time.
But from what I recall there was only few real accounts of a Chinese nature-
not quite like described in an earlier post here- also an English or French
method that included tightening a metal corset about the chest so as to
constrict the breathing thus causing death, and/or pouring of water down ones
throat during the tickling, and things to the effect of how tickling was truly
used and also just how scarcely it was used. I would like to think maybe it
just skipped being written down in history books. I know I would have been too
busy having a good time doing it to record it. :)
My apologies if I have mixed up the details, but I am searching for the posts.
~Bob
TickleChgo
Here is a repost of some tickled to death stories I posted a long, long time
ago (that may have been my first ever post!):
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TICKLED TO DEATH
In the 1884 book, Vie Sahara, Jacques de Beaunay wrote of the treatment
sheiks accorded unfaithful wives: "Sheep were slaughtered and a great feast
was laid. ... The wretched creature [the unfaithful wife], who was
surprisingly pretty, had been stripped well nigh naked. The attendants
seated her in a high place, bound her, and then proceeded to tickle the soles
of her feet with feathers. At first she laughed, a fearful, frightened laugh
tinged with hysteria.
"The sheik and his guests, gorging themselves the while on rich foods, laid
wagers on how long the doomed woman should survive the inhuman ordeal.
"As hour after hour passed, the tickling of the woman's feet continued
unabated. Gradually her uncontrollable laughter changed. It was a
demoniacal thing! She writhed and squirmed in attempts to free herself, but
her bonds held her fast. She screamed through her laughter, until, toward
the end, she was seized with convulsions, and died shortly after. It was
almost dawn."
An article entitled "Ticklishness is No Laughing Matter", Popular Science,
April, 1961, states that a Dr. Sandor S. Feldman of the University of
Rochester Medical Center, NY, "speaks of people being tortured by tickling
during religious persecutions in Cevennes, in Southern France, in 1760. Some
of these may have been tickled to death--by being thrown into fatal
convulsions or suffering a heart attack from the strain of the ordeal." It
states that another authority "notes that many Roman gladiators died
laughing--a reflex action from wounds in the abdomen, a touchy part of the
body."
An article in Esquire entitled "All Right What is a Laugh, Anyway" by
Richard Selzer (July, 19??) states: "If he does not stop [tickling], you may
die of it. In medieval Germany, in Rotenburg an der Fulda, people did.
There, in that place, prisoners were trussed in metal or leather to restrict
expansion of the chest. Salt was rubbed on feet; goats were invited to lick
it off."
In an article entitled "The Biology of Laughter" printed in Psychoanalytic
Review (Summer, 1966), Joost A. M. Meerloo states: "The Romans used tickling
as a cruel punishment. On the scaffold the soles of a victim's feet were
covered with a salt solution so that a goat, attracted by the salt, would
lick it off with his rough tongue and continually tickle the skin. By so
doing, the salty skin was gradually rasped away. Then, the wounded skin
would again be covered with the biting salt solution--ad infinitum, till the
victim died from the torture." This article also provides further details on
the physiological reasons why some people can die from prolonged fits of
laughter.
In "Psychology of Sex," Havelock Ellis quotes Prof. A. Allin "On Laughter,"
Psychology Review (May, 1903): "A number of instances have been recorded of
death resulting from tickling, and there is no reason to doubt the truth of
the statement that Simon de Montfort, during the persecution of the
Albigenses, put some of them to death by tickling the soles of their feet
with a feather."
"The Little Book of Horrors," edited by Sebastian Wolfe and still published
by
Barricade Books, contains a supposed reprint of an old newspaper article, the
headline of which is "A WIFE DRIVEN INSANE BY HUSBAND TICKLING HER FEET."
The text is as follows: "On Thursday, last week, a very serious charge was
preferred against a man named Michael Puckridge... The circumstances ... are
of a harrowing nature. It appears that Puckridge who has lived very
unhappily with his wife, whose life he has threatened on more than one
occasion. ... Mrs Puckridge, who is an interesting looking young woman, has
for a long time suffered from varicose veins in the legs, her husband told
her that he possessed an infallible remedy for this ailment. She was
induced by her tormentor to allow herself to be tied to a plank, which he
placed across two chairs. When the poor woman was bound and helpless,
Puckridge deliberately and persistently tickled the soles of her feet with
a feather. For a long time he continued to operate upon his unhappy victim,
who was rendered frantic by the process. Eventually she swooned, whereupon her
husband released her. It soon became too manifest that her light of reason has
fled. Mrs Puckridge was taken to the workhouse where she was placed with the
other insane persons. ... An inquiry was instituted and there is every reason
to believe that Mrs Puckridge had been driven out of her mind in the way
described but the result of the investigation is not yet known." The article
is accompanied by an Victorian style drawing illustrating this scene!
Maggot6789
Thats how i wanna die.Tickled to death.
CindyIoo
Having actually endured goats licking my own soles at Rennaisance faires many,
many times- I can personally attest to the ticklish nature of the subject. The
goats just don't stop, and after a few minutes you believe your sides will
actually spilt as you scream in laughter that you can't hold in.
Of course this is done in an historical setting and with authenticity. What has
been recreated here are closer to the German version, though our's is actually
French from the Fench courts. From our studies and teachings of it to fellow
performers- While these tortures did take place, the 'tickling to death' is
just a phrase as you actually died from suffocation. Either by a metal corset
slowly tightened until you could not breathe, or by the pouring of water down
ones throat via a funnel strapped to the face as one was tickled.
I am happy to say we eliminate those parts. :)
DARKKNIGHT
a goats. One of my tickling fantasies, having a gal's feet tickled by
licking! :)
Anyway, that Rennaisance fair wouldn't be in any mid west States, would
it?
The ones I've gone to here, have stocks but for visuals or for the head
and hands...nothing for feet torture! /sigh/
Hey what good is tickling some one to death anyway? You'll never get to
tickle them again! ;)
Logan,
Drknight
What does not kill you, makes you stronger....