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Encyclopedia Britannica



BLINDING

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 59 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLINDING , a form of
punishment
  anciently common in many lands, being inflicted on thieves, adulterers, perjurers and other criminals. The inhabitants of
Apollonia
  (Illyria) are said to have inflicted this
penalty
  on their "
watch
  " when found asleep at their posts. It was resorted to by the Roman emperors in their persecutions of the Christians. The method of destroying , the sight varied. Sometimes a mixture of lime and vinegar, or barely scalding vinegar alone, was poured into the eyes. Some-times a rope was
twisted
  round the victim's head till the eyes started out of their sockets. In the middle ages the
punishment
  seems to have been changed from
total
  blindness to a permanent injury to the eyes, amounting, however, almost to blindness, produced by holding a red-hot
iron
  dish or basin before the face. Under the forest
laws
  of the Norman kings of England blinding was a common
penalty
 . Shakespeare makes King John order' his nephew Arthur's eyes to be burnt out.
BLINDMAN'S-BUFF (from an O. Fr. word, buffe, a
blow
 , especially a
blow
  on the cheek), a game in which one player is blindfolded and made to catch and identify one of the others, who in
sport
  push him about and " buffet " him.


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