Tarring and feathering
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Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture where a victim is stripped naked, wood tar is either poured or painted onto them, and feathers are thrown on them or they are rolled around on a pile
1774 cartoon by Philip Dawe depicting the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm
A fictional depiction of this practice in Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
British satirical mezzotint print of a tarred and feathered man (1770)
A victim of tarring and feathering depicted in American short film Mother's Angel (1920)