Khlysts
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The Khlysts or Khlysty were an underground Spiritual Christian sect which emerged in Russia in the 17th century.
Illustration of the radenie (ecstatic ritual) of the Khlysts
Skoptsy
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The Skoptsy were a Spiritual Christian sect of Eastern Orthodoxy. They were best known for practising the emasculation of men, the mastectomy and the female genital mutilation of women in accordance w
Khlysts
…schisms, and by the 1970s, only a few isolated groups remained. The Khlysts had a significant influence on other Russian sectarian movements, such as the Skoptsy, Dukhobors and Molokans. Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin was associated with the Khlysts in popular rumor, but the consensus among historians is that…
Skoptsy woman having undergone a mastectomy
Tools commonly used for castration
Photos of Skoptsy taken by ethnographer Nikolai Volkov to be used against them in the 1929 trials.
Gerichtlich medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland figure 3