Cane and eroticism

The scourge cane

stirrup style

In the Middle-age, the "weapon stirrup" was of the scourge family. It was a kind of mace of which the shaft was mounted with a ring equipped with 4 or 5 iron chains, each one ending in an iron mace; "whip weapon" or "Scorpio", though the last one, which is no longer in fashion from the Sixteenth century on, was equipped with small pointy headed maces.

From Prudentius, the martyred we flagellated with "birch rods straps weighted with small leaden bullets". The flagellum in the Roman times was at least made from three straps weighted each one with leaden knucklebones threaded and distributed on the two thirds, which makes it different from another flagellum, also in use in the Roman times, with small chains or straps, armed at the end with leaden bullets.

Silver handle decorated with grooves and blossomed boughs - Wood-like plated shaft, made of brass, dissimulating a long whip with a leather handle, a shaft made of braided linen and a metallic ferrule.

Under the handle, the following words are pitted "Le Chabanais" followed by :"Anne" -Auction the 9 April 1995, Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France, Expert G.Segas -

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