Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… Image ‘The Spectator’, April 8th 1712 ; 1891 new edition. Image John Simon, ‘Four Indian Kings of Canada’, Magazine of American History, c. 1700. Abstract Falling into a long tradition … upon women whom they had turned upside down, put into tar-filled barrels, and tumbled down a hill – an act that John Gay also referenced in his Trivia (1716): ‘How matrons, hoop’d within the hogshead’s womb / Were tumbled furious …
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