Tedium

Gwaschemasch Efendi- Priestess of the Great Mother, Protector of Mnajdra- Icon image from 1905-1906

Alexander Hamilton

“While no one can dispute that the unfortunate Princesse came to a very violent end, beaten and probably stabbed to death before being decapitated, at La Force prison, it seems clear from the writing of that unfortunate clerk at least that the terrible tortures described by other writers almost certainly didn’t actually happen and that actually the detailed and stomach turning accounts of entrails being used as belts, her heart being eaten and false moustaches being fashioned out of her pubic hair were instead possibly products of the mass hysteria of the time and then flamed by the righteous fury of the Revolution’s pro-Royalist critics. Whatever the truth though, this and the many other incidents like it, were shameful indeed and do no credit to the people responsible.“