![TIL about Pitchcapping. It was a British form of torture used on suspected Irish rebels in 1798. They would heat up tar and pour it on their heads allow it to cool TIL about Pitchcapping. It was a British form of torture used on suspected Irish rebels in 1798. They would heat up tar and pour it on their heads allow it to cool](https://external-preview.redd.it/wMbw8Xw-2lzjhp3TZAAbunllBF6IeQh1ORC28TFfIME.jpg?auto=webp&s=9d191ccde657ea9423faf95d1028e8ff2daf61e8)
TIL about Pitchcapping. It was a British form of torture used on suspected Irish rebels in 1798. They would heat up tar and pour it on their heads allow it to cool
![Pitchcapping was a form of torture used by the military against suspected Irish rebels during the period of the 1798 rebellion. The process involved pouring hot pitch, or tar, into a conical Pitchcapping was a form of torture used by the military against suspected Irish rebels during the period of the 1798 rebellion. The process involved pouring hot pitch, or tar, into a conical](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/T965G4/pitchcapping-was-a-form-of-torture-used-by-the-military-against-suspected-irish-rebels-during-the-period-of-the-1798-rebellion-the-process-involved-pouring-hot-pitch-or-tar-into-a-conical-shaped-paper-cap-which-was-forced-onto-a-bound-suspects-head-allowed-to-cool-then-rapidly-removed-taking-with-it-a-portion-of-the-suspects-skin-and-tissue-less-elaborate-versions-included-smearing-a-cloth-or-piece-of-paper-with-pitch-and-pressing-onto-the-head-of-the-intended-victim-T965G4.jpg)
Pitchcapping was a form of torture used by the military against suspected Irish rebels during the period of the 1798 rebellion. The process involved pouring hot pitch, or tar, into a conical
![The boy tar; or, A voyage in the dark . return fiercer and morecraving than ever. Oh! if it should be one or any ofthem, then indeed was I lost, — then The boy tar; or, A voyage in the dark . return fiercer and morecraving than ever. Oh! if it should be one or any ofthem, then indeed was I lost, — then](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AWD1MJ/the-boy-tar-or-a-voyage-in-the-dark-return-fiercer-and-morecraving-than-ever-oh!-if-it-should-be-one-or-any-ofthem-then-indeed-was-i-lost-then-indeed-might-iyield-up-my-last-hope-and-die-as-men-have-often-diedunder-the-madness-of-intoxication-!-i-was-close-to-the-inner-surface-of-the-stave-mois-ture-was-already-oozing-through-the-wood-where-it-hadbeen-penetrated-by-the-point-of-the-blade-i-hesitatedto-make-the-last-cut-i-dreaded-the-result-i-hesitatedbut-a-short-while-the-torture-of-my-thirst-impelledtne-on-and-plunging-the-blade-deeply-i-felt-the-lastfibres-yielding-to-i-2AWD1MJ.jpg)
The boy tar; or, A voyage in the dark . return fiercer and morecraving than ever. Oh! if it should be one or any ofthem, then indeed was I lost, — then
![A crime photo of a man who was tarred and feathered as punishment. Tarring and feathering was a form of public humiliation. 1940 : r/WTF A crime photo of a man who was tarred and feathered as punishment. Tarring and feathering was a form of public humiliation. 1940 : r/WTF](https://i.redd.it/a-crime-photo-of-a-man-who-was-tarred-and-feathered-as-v0-iflqm12wahz81.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=abba8c1beaa4c271df86b9a9fa958bdb6a4469e3)
A crime photo of a man who was tarred and feathered as punishment. Tarring and feathering was a form of public humiliation. 1940 : r/WTF
![The Bostonians paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774. | Library of Congress The Bostonians paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774. | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a05000/3a05100/3a05133r.jpg)
The Bostonians paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774. | Library of Congress
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