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Tarring and feathering is a physical punishment, used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. It was used in feudal Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance (compare Lynch law). It is also used in modern popular culture. ==Literature== *Edgar Allan Poe's humorous short story, "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", features the staff of an insane asylum being tarred and feathered. *In ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', the Dauphin and the Duke are tarred, feathered, and ridden on a rail in Pikesville after performing the Royal Nonesuch to a crowd that Jim had previously forewarned about the rapscallions. *"What Happened To Charles", one of James Thurber's ''Fables For Our Time'', has the duck Eva, who eavesdrops on every conversation she hears but never gets anything quite right, tarred and ''un''-feathered after she mistakes "shod" (having shoes put on) for "shot" and spreads the rumor that the horse Charles has been killed (he turns up alive and wearing new horseshoes). *Jimmy Carter's 2003 novel ''Hornet's Nest'' describes the tarring and feathering of a Tory by members of the Sons of Liberty. The man suffers severe burns on both feet when the tar fills his boots, and he has toes amputated as a result. *Seamus Heaney's poem "Punishment" refers to the tarring and feathering of Catholic women who fraternized with British soldiers during the troubles in the 1970s . Heaney juxtaposes this with the punishment of Iron Age bog body the Windeby Girl (since revealed to be a man) who was at the time thought to have been punished for infidelity, suggesting that the punishment meted to women in Northern Ireland is very much rooted in ancient tribal traditions. *A graphic depiction of the practice occurs in Robert McLiam Wilson's 1989 novel ''Ripley Bogle'', where in West Belfast a woman made pregnant by a corporal of the Royal Engineers is punished.〔pages 111-115, ''Ripley Bogle'' by Robert Mcliam Wilson, publ Vintage Books, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7493-9465-3〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tarring and feathering in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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