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{{quote|I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry. And still you will not have suffered enough.
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We as humans like our skin to be intact. It protects everything inside the body from various diseases, and contains a great quantity of nerve endings — meaning that to have it forcibly removed is excruciatingly painful, and being stripped of enough of it will lead to a horribly slow death. As a result, flaying is the signature method of [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] for some of the nastiest [[Complete Monster]]s.
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== Religion, Folklore, and Mythology ==
* The satyr Marsyas challenged [[Greek Mythology|Apollo]] to a music contest, flute against lyre. There are several versions (either Apollo made a new condition that made it impossible for Marsyas to keep up, like singing or playing the instrument upside-down; or the judge was Midas who declared Marsyas the winner), but both end in the same way: Apollo flays Marsyas alive.
* The apostle Saint Bartholomew is said to have been martyred this way, flayed alive by an Armenian prince after the latter's brother, the king, converted to Christianity; and indeed, he is often represented in art as [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Last_judgement.jpg holding his own flayed skin]. This is, by the way, why many hospitals are named after him, he is the Patron Saint of Surgeons as a result.
== Tabletop Games ==
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