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A whipping boy was a boy educated alongside a prince (or boy monarch) in early modern Europe, who supposedly received corporal punishment for the prince's transgressions in his presence. The prince was not punished himself because his royal status exceeded that of his tutor; seeing a friend punished would provide an equivalent motivation not to ...
Fleischman's book was adapted in the 1994 Disney Channel television film Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy starring Truan Munro, Nic Knight, George C. Scott, Vincent Schiavelli, Mathilda May, and Kevin Conway, [1] and directed by Sydney MacArtney. Sid Fleischman wrote the teleplay and the film won a CableACE Award that year. [1]
By that boys should suffer corporal punishment, though it is received by custom, and Chrysippus makes no objection to it, I by no means approve; first, because it is a disgrace, and a punishment fit for slaves, and in reality (as will be evident if you imagine the age change) an affront; secondly, because, if a boy's disposition be so abject as ...
A whipping boy, identified patient, or "fall guy" are forms of scapegoat. Scapegoating has its origins in the scapegoat ritual of atonement described in chapter 16 of the Biblical Book of Leviticus , in which a goat (or ass) is released into the wilderness bearing all the sins of the community, which have been placed on the goat's head by a priest.
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully (ISBN 978-0-062-26948-5) is a book written by Allen Kurzweil and published by HarperCollins [1] on 20 January 2015 which later won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime in 2016.
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A whipping boy was a young boy educated with a prince and punished in his place. Whipping boy or Whipping Boy may also refer to: Scapegoat, a person or group who is blamed for the sins, crimes, or sufferings of others; In impact play, a person who is whipped for sexual pleasure