Flagellation, Penance, Self-Discipline & Mortification

Flagellation, in religion, the disciplinary or devotional practice of beating with whips. Although it has been understood in many ways—as a driving out of evil spirits, as purification, as a form of sadism, and as an incorporation of the animal power residing in the whip—none of these

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Flagellation, Penance, Self-Discipline & Mortification