Author Topic: Piercing taken to a whole new level (Read 279 times)

ChickenHawk · « **on:** May 25, 2005, 02:57:43 PM »

From this weeks News of the Weird column:

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

News of the Weird has already reported that some people have a fondness for inserting 3-inch steel hooks in their skin and hanging from pulleys for minutes, or even an hour, at a time. In April, about 100 such aficionados attended a gathering in Providence, R.I., and participants seemed thrilled, according to a Reuters dispatch. A Connecticut teen: "It was euphoric. It was spiritual. I'd do it again today if I wasn't so sore." A woman, watching her boyfriend slowly swing: "Look at his face. He's so serene. We've had some really rough times this year, and he needed this really bad." A Canadian man: "The first couple of times, I didn't enjoy it. The first time, I blacked out, and one time I was convulsing. But the third time I got better. I wasn't blacking out anymore." [Reuters, 4-5-05]

Some people crack me up.

bustr · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2005, 03:11:19 PM »

Massive endorphine hi. Heck let someone smack you around for a few minutes. I gaurentee when they stop it will feel sooooo goooodddddd.................. .....

Gunslinger · « **Reply #2 on:** May 25, 2005, 03:24:32 PM »

IIRC this was done by the Souix indians (at least I think it was the souix) for their passage from boyhood to man/warrier/hunter/whatever. Instead of hooks they used some sort of claw or talon that would attach to the person's chest.

I knew a guy in the Marines that had the scars from it. It may have been navajo now that I think about it....cant remember completly.

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #3 on:** May 25, 2005, 03:30:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
IIRC this was done by the Souix indians (at least I think it was the souix) for their passage from boyhood to man/warrier/hunter/whatever. Instead of hooks they used some sort of claw or talon that would attach to the person's chest.

I knew a guy in the Marines that had the scars from it. It may have been navajo now that I think about it....cant remember completly.

Yeah, I heard that the Mandan Indians had to do it before they could become chief too.

BTAirsol · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2005, 03:35:55 PM »

Souix tribe, remember the movie "A man called horse" with Richard Harris? He hung by eagle talons pressed into his chest. The Souix also would take sharpened bones and pierce there back and drag buffulo skulls on the ground around in a circle for hours and receive visions for their community.

Sandman · « **Reply #5 on:** May 25, 2005, 06:31:12 PM »

Do some reading on the "Sun Dance" ritual. It's worse than what they depicted in "A Man Called Horse".

indy007 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 26, 2005, 07:58:14 AM »

Or just take a trip out to Burning Man.