A very old tale... Murder by Tickling!

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Hey, my friends... check out this picture that Livingdeadguy found... It's quite interesting.



This picture shows that kinky tickling goes far back... This piece of tickling artwork was made in 1888... Over 120 years ago!


Here's what the picture is all about if you want to read it...

Part of... "Pierrot assassin de sa femme (“Pierrot, murderer of his wife”) by Théophile Gautier....

Pierrot has just returned home with the gravedigger after having buried his wife, Columbine. The two are swigging cognac, but a perceived slight causes Pierrot to abruptly turn out his guest. Fueled by alcohol, he begins thinking back to the crime. Why did he do it? “She pinched my gold; my best wine she drank; my back she gave a drubbing… A cuckold, yes, she made me a cuckold, and with a vengeance.” There were plenty of reasons, but “what does that matter?” He murdered her out of fancy, just because he is the master. Then, as if suddenly projected back in time before the deed, Pierrot begins to deliberate: How shall I do it? He runs through and rejects several possibilities as either too messy or too incriminating (rope, knife, sword, poison, and gun), then, while rubbing his foot, the tingling sensation leads him to the perfect solution: I’ll tickle her to death! Pierrot now proceeds to a delirious reenactment of the crime. Columbine is sleeping; he sneaks up on her, draws the curtains around the bed, then binds her arms and legs with rope and gags her. Just at the moment Pierrot begins his tickle torture, he suddenly turns into Columbine, writhing on the bed in “frightful gaiety” and begging Pierrot to stop. Insensitive to her cries, the mad clown presses on until she is finally overwhelmed and, in a “supreme spasm,” expires. Pierrot turns back into himself. He inspects the imagined corpse, first half-disbelieving that Columbine is really dead, then pleased with his perpetration of the perfect crime. All this hard work has made Pierrot sleepy. As he starts to undress, he notices that his feet are shaking, as if possessed by an involuntary dance. The jig becomes more and more feverish, until he is frantically running about the room. The clown tries to drown his accursed writhing in still more booze, but to no avail. His eyes fall upon the portrait of Columbine. She is mocking him and tickling him from beyond the grave. Pierrot’s body is seized with convulsive trembling as he too, following his wife, dies in a fit of mad laughter...

TL; DR: If I gathered this right (Please correct me if I'm wrong)... Columbine (Pierrot's wife) has wronged him in various ways... so he plans to kill her by binding her wrists and ankles, then tickle torture her because it won't create a mess and leaves no evidence... (although there would probably be ligature marks on her wrists and ankles which that might allow someone to know she was bound...but anyway)... He tickles her for a very long time until she dies in a "supreme spasm". But it's not soon after he kills his wife that Pierrot goes crazy by having an otherworldly sensation in his own feet, and as he looks at a picture of his recently murdered wife, it's clear that some how she is getting her revenge by tickle torturing him until he dies by the very same method that he used to kill her...


A very interesting tale full of kink and tragedy... Way before the likes of :iconmtjpub: or :iconagency-publishing: and all of the artistic and literary quality they bring to this wonderful community of ours...

What do you guys and gals think? Just one more way to show that this kink we enjoy, has been going on for many decades.... possibly centuries. O.o

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OH MY GOODNESS!!

And actually tickling goes back even further than that...much further about to 350 BCE or even before. And it was a method of torture used by Chinese and Roman.

So this story only shows part of a whole thing