For what punished things?

Inanimate objects and even nature forces more than once fell to people under a hot hand: they were punished as living beings and destroyed as symbols of hostile culture.

Carry out the sea

The warriors of the army of the Curse carve sea

The angry people found out the relationship not only with things (we wrote about this in the first material on the topic), but also with mighty elements. Ancient Greek historian Herodotus talks about the Persian Tsar Kerks, who gathered in the V century to. NS. Hike to Greece. According to his order, Persians built two bridges through the Strait of Gellespont, to rather transfer troops to the place of battle. The storm broke out, and the bridges were destroyed.

The enraged king commanded the sea 300 strikes with beaches and throw a chain into it, and supervised the bridge to cut off the heads.

The imposition of "stamps" at sea

Thus appeared the phraseological "Calm the Sea" – trying to relyze the malice on someone without

Persian executioners, former troops, sealed sea water, sentenced: "Oh you, bitter moisture Gellespont! So you punish our lord for the insult, which you inflicted him, although he did not insult you anything ". Thus appeared the phraseological "Calm the Sea" – trying to relyze the malice on someone without. Tradition, by the way, continued the scandalous famous Roman emperor Caligula. He declared the war to God by the seas Neptune, led the army to the shore and ordered the soldiers to throw a spear into the water.

To cut down a tree

The people of Ain, living in Japan, avenged trees. If a person fell out of branches and died of bruises or a conceded trunk fell on a man and killed him, people came into fury and entered into a war with a tree, or rather, with demons who live in him inside. The tree fell in, splitted on the chips and drooped the wind. After all, if you do not destroy the source of danger, the demons will stay in it and will constantly threaten a person.

However, too large trees were left to grow, carefully noting the dark place so that people keep far away from him.

Ax of war

Kenyan tribe Kikuya (Akikuyu)

Announced a truce, American Indians buried their tomagasks, and Africa and Australia’s aborigines and Australia also received the arms that killed a man. The tribes of East Africa Akikuyu and Ateraka believed that such a weapon would forever retain his deadly property. Therefore, the elders of these tribes are blocked and buried to the earth murder. There is another way: the elders take a spear or the sword, which was committed a crime, beat on it by a stone until he faded, and thrown into a deep mistlet from the nearest river – otherwise weapons will kill and continue.

The natives of the Australian state of Victoria, enemy spear who killed their tribesman, was burned by the relatives of the murdered. Some Aboriginal Western Australia necessarily burned a spear tip, which was a man’s jam. They explained this custom because the soul of the murdered remains at the tip of weapons and can be removed in proper place only when the tip burns on fire.

451 degrees Fahrenheit

Illustration on the topic of burning books and scrolls Maya

But most often the books suffered from fire: back in the third century BC. NS. The Chinese emperor arranged a "burning books and the burial of the scribes" during the fight against Confucianism. All disadvantaged works were thrown into the fire, and their authors were buried to the ground.

All day by order of the monk, soldiers wore books and scrolls with incomprehensible drawings and icons on the square in front of the temple. When the work was completed, Diego de Landa brought a burning torch to manuscripts. So from the libraries and the chronicles of Maya, only three manuscripts came to this day

In the middle of the XVI century, the young Spanish monk Diego de Landa decided to eradicate the spirit of paganism in the newly conquered by Mexico. In one of the temples, the Mayan Spaniards found a huge library of ancient manuscripts. All day by order of the monk, soldiers wore books and scrolls with incomprehensible drawings and icons on the square in front of the temple. When the work was completed, Diego de Landa brought a burning torch to manuscripts. "These books," he wrote later, did not contain anything except the superstition and fiction of the devil. We burned them all ". So from the libraries and the chronicles of Maya, only three manuscripts came to this day.

And the most famous case of this kind is the burning of books in Nazi Germany: from March to October 1933, book bonfires across the country. May 10 in Berlin burned 25,000 volumes of literary works, "undermining the German Spirit," from children’s fairy tales to the theory of Einstein’s relativity. Not only the scientific works of Marxists and Communists got black, but even the works of authors from large cities, "Alien People’s Spirit". In the preface to the novel "451 degrees Fahrenheit" Ray Bradbury wrote: "When Hitler burned a book, I felt sharply, forgive me, as if he killed a man. However, ultimately history, people and books – one flesh ". Unfortunately, the famous anti-nightopia has not taught progressive humanity – books burn in the 21st century.

On other forbidden publications, you can read in the material "My Planet" "Read it is impossible to execute".

Take it off immediately!

N.V. Neviv. Peter I in an ingenous dress in front of his mother, Queen Natalia, Patriarch Adrian and Zotter teacher. 1903 year

In the time of Peter I outside the law, clothes were: replacing the traditional Russian costume to the European became one of the most important points of Petrovsky reforms. The emperor attached it to this value that he refer to the cautious. In January 1700, a decree "On wearing a dress on the manner of Hungarian" was released, governing the length of clothes – on the garter, that is, the palm below the knee. Hungarian costume took for a sample, because he was closer to Russian and it should have facilitated the transition from long-oil caftans to the costumes of French cutting.

Pursuit of Russian clothes in Petrovsky time. XIX century engraving

Another decree assumed hard measures against those who resisted innovations. At the entrance to the city, special people were supplied, who watched, in what clothes a man comes. For an inappropriate form they took a duty, and those who did not pay, the floors of the long kaftan were cut off on the spot. Many townspeople, especially the merchants, counted short-footed costumes with the top of indecency. Preserved engravings depicting scenes where the soldiers are forcibly cutting the floors of long cafts in merchants and boyars. Other strange decrees of Peter I – in the "My Planet" test.