Sjambok
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The sjambok, or litupa, is a heavy leather whip. It is traditionally made from adult hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide, but it is also commonly made out of plastic.
A 90 cm (3 ft) plastic sjambok used by South African police
L'Exécution de la Punition de Fouet by Jean Baptiste Debret
Pizzle
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Pizzle is a Middle English word for penis, derived from Low German pesel or Flemish Dutch pezel, diminutive of the Dutch language pees, meaning 'sinew'. The word is used today to signify the penis of
Sjambok
…apartheid era South African Police, and used for riot control. Peter Hathaway Capstick describes a sjambok as a short swordlike whip made from rhino pizzle leather that could lay a man open like a straight razor. The sjambok was heavily used by the Voortrekkers driving their oxen while migrating from the…
The Lamb of God on the Book of Seven Seals, Bamberg Apocalypse, A.D. 1000-1020
Bull pizzle cut into small pieces for dogs to chew