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Lancelot encounters a cart-driving dwarf, who says he will tell Lancelot where Guinevere and her captor went if Lancelot agrees to ride in his cart. Lancelot boards the cart reluctantly as this is a dishonorable form of transport for a knight. [1] Gawain, unwilling to demean himself in this manner, chooses to follow on horseback.
Damnatio ad bestias (Latin for "condemnation to beasts") was a form of Roman capital punishment where the condemned person was killed by wild animals, usually lions or other big cats. This form of execution, which first appeared during the Roman Republic around the 2nd century BC, had been part of a wider class of blood sports called Bestiarii.
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.
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 ...
Condemned, a Spanish melodrama; The Condemned, a 1975 Austrian-West German drama; Condemned, a Filipino film noir; The Condemned, a 2007 American action film; The Condemned 2, a 2015 action film, sequel to the 2007 film; Condemned, an American horror film
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.
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]
Roger Julien Bardet (14 March 1916 – 7 April 1972 [1]) was a member of the French resistance organisation known as CARTE, based in Cannes, organised by André Girard.He was betrayed by a fellow agent and became a double agent.