This is kinda nuts. I guess these fools are trying to prove something here, maybe the ability to take burning pain. This video is a celebration that involves bare feet, big leaves and a pot of boiling oil. The dancers dance around, dip the big leaves into the hot oil and spray it on them selves… yikes. You can even here the sizzle as they dip the leaves into the oil.

Serious self torture.

Mary Dyer was a follower of mid-wife and religious activist Anne Marbury Hutchinson. Her views about God and religion were considered heresy by the Puritan religion

In 1658, a law was passed banishing Quakers under “pain of death.” Mary Dyer was executed, hanged for being a Quaker on June 1, 1660. She never repented and held on to her religious beliefs all the way to the scaffold.

The following is from a document from the New York Public Library with evidence about the Quaker Martyr and the terrible torture that was inflicted at the time and the famous execution of Mary

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one particular Blow could not be seen.”He was also starved for five days, and for sixteen hours was put into irons, neck and heels, so that it was thought he would die all of which so excited the populace that the authorities promised that the jailer should be punished,but no further notice was taken of it. Christopher Holder of Rhode Island was barbarously whipped, was then kept for three days without food or water, and without bed or straw, and for nine weeks was imprisoned without fire in the cold winter season. Afterwards he was apprehended again, was again cruelly whipped, his right ear was cut off, and other barbarities were at different times practised upon him.

Defenceless women, maidens and matrons, were stripped naked to the waist, and, thus exposed to the public gaze,

So what is going on here? These are pictures from the old Taliban regime and the public spectacle they used to have to torture and execute the victims of extreme religious beliefs. The story behind the pictures of the amputated hands are below.

On 24th April 1998

a women accused of adultery and a youth accused of robbery were punished in Kabul Sport Stadium. Taliban radio invited Kabul’s resident for the ’show’ but less than expected showed up. The number of spectators were not more than 5000, bulk of which were made up of Pakistani and Afghani Taliban. In order to make their “show more ceremonious” they had dragged along about 200 of their women folk. More than 20% of the spectators comprised of children and youth of under 14.

The heads of Taliban started with speeches, at around 2:30 PM, about the benefits of enforcing shariat (Islamic law) which nobody listened to. At around 3 PM the charges on Meena daughter of Meer Aqaa resident of Jabul Saraaj was read who was later flogged a 100 times. The accused was wrapped in an old chadarry and was escorted by two tall chadarry wearing guards to the center of the ground.

One of the Taliban executioner stood at the left side of the accused and throw 50 lashes on her back and then moved to her right side and throw another 50 lashes on her back. The women’s head, who appeared to have lost consciousness slid to the shoulder of the one of the guards. Finally she was thrown into a car and taken away.

The second accused was Zabi Ullah son of Noor Muhammad resident of Shakar Dara. On the crime of theft of medicine worth 35 million Afghani his hand had to be cut off. He was laid down on stadium ground. Four doctors who had covered their faces for not to be known started butchering him. A short while later his right hand was cut from the wrest and fell to the ground. A Talib who appeared to be intoxicated by the sight and smell of blood picked the cut hand by the small finger and while blood was dripping from it, he hold it to the spectators. He was holding the cut hand by his right hand and was cheerfully waving his left hand while shouting in Urdu “ye haat dheko” (look at this hand). The spectacle of Pakistani Talib lasted about 5 minutes. The youth whose hand has been severed was thrown into an ambulance and taken away. You could see the hatred, pain and rage in the eyes of the people.

Well, at least they did take the people to the hospital, or at least they said they did.