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I mean, we know Giles Corey actually said "More weight" or something to the same effect. Some people just be that badass.
It’s certainly possible but in my Catholic upbringing, virtually every martyr has some badass story that implied they were above pain and suffering of their execution (due to their absolute faith, of course). Some stories might be true but my money is on most being heavily embellished. This one in particular seems implausible because I would imagine that being grilled would send your body into shock pretty quickly. Plus the heat would likely damage your lungs when you breathed so I doubt someone could talk for very much of the process.
I’m certainly not saying it’s impossible but I think it’s more likely false (or embellished beyond recognition) than true.
This is also true. But then again, I was raised Mormon. There are things that make the founding Mormons sound like real badasses. Eventually I got out of the church, and learned that somehow some of the craziest shit the church says about church history is usually partially true. The thing they always leave out is that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young heavily abused the Ephedra (contains ephedrine) plant, meaning they're pretty much the OG tweaker sex cult.
So you hear crazy shit about them and you think it's all bullshit until you just find out that they were pretty much methed out for it.
Huh, I hadn’t considered that some of the stories would have pharmacological explanations like that. Some of the stories would make more sense if the person were blasted on opium or something like that.
Congrats on getting out, I hope it wasn’t too awful to extract yourself. Also, lol @ the ephedra thing, I haven’t heard that before so it made me chuckle and gave me a new perspective on how some of those unbelievable stories can be explained.