is secured within they offer him food and if he refuses they force him to do it by pricking his eyes after he's eaten they cover him with a mix of milk and honey pouring it into his mouth and all over his face they then keep his face turned to the sun and it becomes completely covered with the amount of flies that land on it as within the boat he does what those that eat and drink must do referring to excretion and going to the toilet meaning that the condemned would be lying in their own waste and filth vermin then spring out and eat the man entering the bowels of him and his body is eaten when the man is dead the upper boat is taken off and swarms of creatures are growing in his insides this particular person suffered for NUMBER_TOKEN days and then died so a person was placed into a boat covered in milk and honey and other things that vermin are attracted to then slowly without being able to move they would be eaten alive by flies and rats truly terrible this punishment was used for centuries and a byzantine writer in the NUMBER_TOKENth century also described it he cleared up what plutarch meant and also confirmed that this practice was used with the victim being eaten alive by animals unable to move and covered in their own excrement the issue of scafism is the ordeal that the person went through when compared to other execution methods such as the guillotine it was a slow and drawn out process intended to cause incredible suffering seeing someone in this state would have had a strong deterrent effect let's take the guillotine on the other hand which was a device intended to take the heads of as many people in his quicker time and as time went on other execution methods were drawn up to be slightly more humane for example during hangings the long drop method was used to immediately snap necks not to endure suffering and inflict suffering for such a long time execution itself is rather controversial in its belief that scafism was the worst method ever used throughout history and it's hard to disagree once again thanks for watching to support our channel please make sure to subscribe and once again thank you so much for watching
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