• Toes♀@ani.social
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    6 months ago

    The human body is impressive, he must have had a powerful immune system to survive the healing process for that.

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      6 months ago

      Wikipedia says

      Scalping was not in itself fatal, though it was most commonly inflicted on the gravely wounded or the dead.

      Still, one of many reasons I am glad to live in the time period and country I do. Though also a reminder of how close in our history America is to genocide:

      on August 8, 1722, Massachusetts put a bounty on native families, paying 100 pounds sterling for the scalps of male Indians aged 12 and over, and 50 pounds sterling for women and children.