A fekete város, The Black City, Episode 5. Az áruló, The Traitor

 The scenes are from the TV Mini Series called A fekete város, The Black City, Episode 5. Az áruló, The Traitor (Hungary 1972) 1. The town bailiff M/F Mrs. Sipper sentenced to 25 strokes on her buttocks, one blow with a bundle of rods on her butt, position of standing, in front of witnesses. Ultimately, she received just that one stroke. The reason for this will be explained below.  

2. One of the prominent city council elders of the town M/F multiple women, a symbolic birching on their posteriors, position of bent over, in the presence other people. 

Mrs. Sipper was sentenced by the town council to 25 strokes with a rod for refusing to wear mandatory mourning clothes (black) for the murdered chief judge Kramler and defiantly wearing red dresses instead. 

Before the punishment can be carried out, a group of schoolgirls led by Rozália arrives in the courtyard. They stand in solidarity with the condemned woman, refusing to wear black any longer and demanding to be whipped alongside her. 

Facing resistance from the youth, the city elders decide on a lenient, symbolic resolution to avoid a full-scale riot. Instead of a harsh hitting, each person receives a light, symbolic tap with the twigs. 

3. Another town bailiff M/M Zsigmond Bibók, previously acted as a spy and double agent, 30 blows with a stick on his ass, position of lying on a wooden bench, in front of witnesses. After the flogging, the punished man holds his sore bottom in front of the onlookers, who laugh at him. 

Zsigmond Bibók was sentenced to 30 strokes on a wooden bench as a disciplinary punishment for his previous espionage, untrustworthiness, and betrayal. 

The man standing nearby who is loudly counting the strokes is a town official or a court clerk / scribe.

His official role during public punishments was to oversee the execution, ensure that the executioner delivered the exact number of strikes ordered by the court, and count them out loud for the records and the gathered crowd. 

The story takes place in Lőcse (historically known as Leutschau in German, or Levoča in present-day Slovakia) and is set around the early 18th century. Hungarian language and English subtitles https://ok.ru/video/15782123408059 and https://vkvideo.ru/video-229942838_456239838?list=ln-lXFCDTXZD1RNtHvOLN







































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