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Various folklore purports him as the condemned soul of a tyrannical daimyō who, in life, was known for having his victims drawn on the back of an ox cart. He is said to guard the gates of Hell , and to wander back and forth along the road between this world and the underworld, scaring townsfolk as he passes and stealing the souls of anyone who ...
Horse and cart at Beamish Museum (England, 2013) Dockworkers and hand cart (Haiti, 2006). A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand [1]) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by draught animals such as horses, donkeys, mules and oxen, or even smaller animals such as goats or large dogs.
The thieves, their confessors and the ghoulish spectators who surround the cart are all in contemporary dress. In Bruegel's day public executions were well attended occasions which had the air of festivals or carnivals. Here Bruegel shows the absolute indifference of the gawping crowds to the fear and misery of the condemned men.
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. [1] [2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans, [1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the 21st century. [3]
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In this use, the carts were sometimes covered. The two wheels allowed the cart to be tilted to discharge its load more easily. [3] [2] Many tumbrels also had hinged tailboards for the same reason. The word is also used as a name for the cucking stool and for a type of balancing scale used in medieval times to check the weight of coins. [4]
The following morning, the remaining four were dragged to the Old Palace Yard at Westminster, opposite the building they had planned to destroy. Thomas was the first to mount the scaffold. It was customary to grant the condemned a speech, but Thomas, "a very pale and dead colour", said it was "no time to discourse: he was come to die".
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum. A minecart , mine cart , or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch ) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway , used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining .