Star Kicking
A form of torture called "star kicking" supposedly began with Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who would place oiled bits of paper or string between the prisoner's toes and light the material on fire.
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Famous quotes containing the words star and/or kicking:
“It’s better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.”
—James Gleason (1886–1959)
“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)