testicles as war trophies

[gert (imported)]

Hi all! I am looking for a book describing the fall of the british army in Afghanistan where all the soldiers were castrated. I think the book is called The Blade. It is a 19th century story and true.

Does anybody know about other literature about testicles as war trophies?

Thanks for your help.

Gert

[Slammr (imported)]

Hi all! I am looking for a book describing the fall of the british army in Afghanistan where all the soldiers were castrated. I think the book is called The Blade. It is a 19th century story and true.

Does anybody know about other literature about testicles as war trophies?

Thanks for your help.

Gert

The perpetrators of the Sand Creek Massacre mutilated their victims. Scrotums were used to make tobacco pouches.

Sand Creek Masscre (http://homepages.tesco.net/~richard.alo ... screek.htm)

"I did not see a body of a man, woman, child but was scalped; and in many instances their bodies were mutilated in the most horrible manner, men, women, and children-privates cut out, etc. I heard one man say that he had cut a woman's private parts out and had them for exhibition on a stick; I heard another man say that he had cut the fingers off an Indian to get the rings on the hand...I also heard of numerous instances in which men had cut out the private parts of females, and stretched them over the saddle bows, and wore them over their hats, while riding in the ranks."

First Lieutenant James Connor, United States Army