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Flagellants were people who travelled about whipping each other. They believed that the Black Death was God's punishment. They punished themselfs in order to beg for forgiveness and travelled around,...
they were a religious group who believed that they would drive the devil away and wash away their sins .
they would strip naked, and then beat one another. they thought it would relieve them of their...
the flagellants were in religion, the name given to those who scourge themselves, or are scourged, by way of discipline or penanceThey also whipped themself as a way of taking the sins of the world...
One who whips, especially one who scourges oneself for religious discipline or public penance. One who seeks sexual gratification in beating or being beaten by another person
Mortification of the flesh literally means "putting the flesh to death". The term is primarily used in religious and spiritual contexts. The institutional and traditional terminology of this practice...