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Alice & My Crucifixion - Part 1

August 24, 2015, 4:21 pm
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ALICE AND MY CRUCIFIXION - Part 1
by Cycle

Looking up at the sky, I seemed to remember that it was once blue. But now it was a dull gray. Sounds around me were muffled. I heard voices, but couldn’t understand the words. The only thing I could understand was pain.

I had been arrested just two hours ago. It took the judge less than five minutes to pronounce his judgement. I was guilty and would be executed immediately. Ten minutes later, I was chained to a post and had my shirt ripped from...

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When You Know Them

August 29, 2015, 7:04 am
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A short-ish story I wrote a while ago, influenced by Jastrow and "The Greek Girls", which is why I didn't post it earlier, but now it's dusted off and edited a bit. So, while I work on something new, here is something from my back pages, so to speak. Hope you like it. :)


When you Know Them
by Jollyrei


Caius Herminius was dead, beheaded for treason after being found with two merchants implicated in a plot to send equipment to a group of pirates. Crime against the...

When You Know Them
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More (crucified) Female Martyrs

August 29, 2015, 11:48 am
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In this thread some more female (crucified) Christian Martyrs are presented ... there are only a few accounts concerning their lives and martyrdom, though they are venerated in tradition …

Martha & Maria of Egypt

The Holy Virgin Martyrs Martha and Mary were sisters who lived in Asia Minor, and fervently desired to suffer for the Lord Jesus Christ. Once, a pagan military commander marched past their house. The sisters went out to him and loudly declared that they were...

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A Thief In The Macellum (crux Story By Montycrusto)

August 30, 2015, 3:42 am
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A Thief in the Macellum. (Crux story by Montycrusto)


My name is Gaius Pica; welcome to Puteoli, sir! You must be just off the galley from Tyre, though I can see you’re not a Syrian. Nor a Roman, neither; no offence intended, keep your secrets if you like; I’m just interested in people. All I’m saying is, you look like you need a guide. Well, don’t you worry. You just stick with me, and I’ll show you around, for a few coppers. There’s nothing I don’t know about this...

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Aubet, Cubet And Guerre

August 30, 2015, 4:52 am
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Aubet (also called Aimbeth, Ainbeth, Embede, Einbede), Cubet (Gaupet, Fürbet, Wilbede) and Guerre (Gwere, Gberpet, Quere, Wolbeth, Warbede) are popular saints in South Germany and the alpine regions of Europe; they are often referred to as »3 holy virgins« or »3 Beths« or »3 Bedes«. Their legend is peculiarly fuzzy:

They were companions of Ursula and were killed together with her by Huns near to Cologne.
They dissociated from Ursula's group at Strassbourg in order to care for another...

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A Refinement In Humiliation?

August 31, 2015, 1:56 am
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Ladies, I'm curious (and not just in the sexual sense - I passed that milestone some time ago!).

How would you feel if, as an added element of humiliation, forced depilation were part of the flogging and crucifixion process? And I don't just mean Darprincess69's favourite use of the razor, it's application to the pussy. No, I mean the whole head.

What would go through your mind if, just before being tied to the whipping post for your flogging, you were forced to kneel and, in front of...

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Crucifixion In The White Sands Desert.

August 31, 2015, 6:37 pm
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(This story is based on a short story of Longpole15 and Teresa: ‘Crux and Pyre’ – 19xx.)

Important message before you read this story

I have to confess that my story is partially based on a shorter story I found many years ago on the internet. It was written in plain text (MSDOS?) by a certain LongPole15, whoever he or she might be and that story was based on a story of Teresa. That’s all I know of them.

The original text was of big help for me to START and to END my story. It was...

Crucifixion In The White Sands Desert.
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»veiled Truth« Cappella Sansevero In Naples

September 2, 2015, 6:00 pm
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The experience is hard to describe. Entering this space, full to the brim with works of art, you might almost feel assaulted by beauty, a beauty you cannot escape, filling every detail of your field of vision. The crucial difference here, in respect to any other baroque art collection, is that some of the works exposed inside the chapel do not offer just an aesthetic pleasure, but hinge on a second, deeper level of emotion: The mysteries of Sansevero Chapel ... wonder(s)

»Veiled truth« is...

»veiled Truth« Cappella Sansevero In Naples
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Crucifixion: Antiquity, Medieval, Or Modern?

September 3, 2015, 12:40 pm
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Here's a curious thought for the forum. Been working on another short crux story, and have been debating between the following:

1) Crucifixion of Roman antiquity. Innocent woman is crucified for a crime she did not commit.
2) Medieval crucifixion. Innocent Christian woman is crucified by Saracens for not converting.
3) Modern crucifixion: Innocent woman is abducted during her travels, sold, and crucified for money.

Questions/input/thoughts? :devil:
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Roman Resources

September 11, 2015, 4:30 am
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Okay once upon there was a mighty Empire and its fall in the West at least ushered in a period of lost records and chaos popularly known as the Dark Ages. Well recently Crux Forums has suffered its own Dark Ages Weeks and among the great monuments lost (blowing of own trumpets ;) ) was certain thread called Roman Resources.

The object of this thread is to help the many would be writers and other artist who desperately want their tales of Rome to be near accurate as can be humanly...

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For Discussion: Should Crucifixion Be Brought Back As A Punishment?

September 12, 2015, 5:08 pm
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I am in the middle of writing a story about a guy who becomes Prime Minister of Canada. One of his promises is "free ice cream for everyone who voted for me" (character has not been named yet, by the way). The idea is he reinstates the death penalty in Canada but only for child molesters and murderers. The rest get jail time. You know, status quo type thing.

The death penalty would be: crucifixion. Not the chair, or lethal injection or anything like that; but crucifixion.

Then I got...

For Discussion: Should Crucifixion Be Brought Back As A Punishment?
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The God Of Filth (first Crux Story), By Montycrusto

September 16, 2015, 3:57 am
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The God of Filth. (First Crux story), by montycrusto


Gather round, friends and strangers, and come closer to the fire. You all know me, Kalan the Storyteller, that’s what they call me. I may be old and slow, but I have the knowing of a lot of things, and the remembering of things long past. I have been a warrior, and a thief; I have been a poet, and a player of games, a traveller, and a priest. That’s right, my friends, sit down, for I will tell you of a time, before...

The God Of Filth (first Crux Story), By Montycrusto
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Reconstruction Of A Woman's Crucifixion

September 16, 2015, 1:27 pm
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According to some ancient accounts (e.g. tractate b. Sanh. 43b) a man is suspended with his face towards the spectators, but a woman with her face towards the cross ...
Individuals were crucified nude, in a few cases perhaps with a the short tunic as in the well known Palatine graffito shown ...

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Nailing The Hands Or Feets

September 23, 2015, 3:39 am
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When it's time to nail a pretty girl on the cross,i prefer to see the feet. It's seem more sensual and sexy;specialy if the girl as beautiful feet. The lie down position for me is the better way also we can see her legs.I'm looking forward for your respond.

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My Military Days

September 24, 2015, 2:26 pm
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This Is Me In My Military Days .
I Was given the nickname the groundsheet on the camp i was in, and i could never understand why. they asked me to leave in the end because the officers and men were falling asleep on the morning parade. i did`nt want to leave so they organized a court martial and sentenced me to be shot at dawn , but i slept with all the firing squad the night before my execution, and next morning when they were called to do their duty they could`nt wake them up the poor...

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Women In Prison

October 1, 2015, 3:25 pm
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waiting for their executions
first group from Owlage a Yahoogroup
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Eulalia’s Martyrdom In The History Of Art

October 4, 2015, 5:36 pm
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Part I

According to the fourth-century account by Prudentius, Eulalia was “descended from one of the best families in Spain” and distinguished herself “from infancy” by “an admirable sweetness of temper, modesty, and devotion, a great love of the holy state of virginity, and by her seriousness and contempt of dress, ornaments, diversions, and worldly company.” In 304, when she was 12 (or in some accounts, 14), Eulalie suffered her martyrdom described like this: Dacian ordered that...

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No Trespassing!

October 7, 2015, 11:58 am
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The last two years, I wrote some short stories, around the theme of 'no trespassing'.
The subject refers to all means of trespassing : of territory and borders, of laws and regulations, but also of social or moral conventions or of the privileges and pretensions of the powers that be.

No need to say that trespassers, whether they act intentionally or by ignorance, or anyway, will await an ordeal involving such objects as ropes, whips, nails and T- or X-shaped constructions.
The first story...

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The Chronicle Of Sir Rupert And The Lost Cross

October 7, 2015, 9:49 pm
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Sir Rupert Wragg entered the room just as King Arthur spat out a bit of chicken bone. “Bloody incompetent kitchen staff, are they trying to choke me?”

Sir Rupert bowed. “Good morning, Your Majesty. We all have your best interests at heart. None of us wish to see you choke, Sire. I will have the kitchen maid flogged ere noon is upon us. She will learn to fillet chicken or I will have her filleted herself!”

The king muttered a bit but made no coherent reply. Sir Rupert was not a little...

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Steinlen's 'crucified Serbia'

October 7, 2015, 11:56 pm
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A little bit of history
On October 7th 1915, exactly a hundred years before the date of this post, the Central Powers invaded Serbia. Earlier, during the first months of the Great War, Serbia had succeeded to push back a first attempt by the Austro-Hungarian armies to conquer the country.
It should be reminded that the war had escalated from a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, after the assassination of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his...

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