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The nine-tailed whip, also known as the nine-tailed cat , is a multi-stranded soft whip. It was originally used as a heavy corporal punishment tool in the Royal Navy and the British Army. It has also been used in law enforcement corporal punishment in Britain and other countries.

Nine-tailed whip

Nine-tailed whip, also known as nine-tailed cat , is a multi-stranded

The nine-tailed whip (Cat o 'nine tails), also known as the nine-tailed cat, is a multi-stranded soft

The name Nine-tailed whip first appeared in English in 1695. The origin of the name may be that the parallel scars it causes are like those caused by claws. It may have been designed earlier than its name.

Nine-tailed whip consists of nine knotted cotton cloth cords, about 76 cm long. Its design allows it to be used to tear the skin, causing intense pain.

It usually has nine strands because of the traditional method of braiding. Three yarns are knitted into a thin cable, and three thin cables are knitted into a thick cable. At that time, people untied a thick rope into three thin ropes, and then untied into three thinner ropes, which became a nine-tailed whip.

Nine-tailed whip has different deformations, including different number of strands. For example, in 2001, prisons in Egypt used seven lashes with six knots per adult. Such a torture was abandoned in Egypt in 2001.

Sometimes the name Nine-tailed Whip is also incorrectly used in other multi-strand torture devices. For example, Sharia regulations require 80 beggings for drunks or other offenders, but sometimes someone uses a torture consisting of 80 branches and is sometimes mistakenly called a nine-tailed whip.

Form and usage of the Royal Navy

The nine-tailed whip used by the British Royal Navy is only commandable by the captain, so it is also called the "captain's daughter". It weighs 370 grams and consists of one handle and nine cables.

Method of punishment

All formal penalties decided by the captain or military court are solemnly held on deck. All crew members must gather to "watch the punishment". Rituals such as drumming and rest, bright whip, and drinking water also improve the drama of the entire punishment. These dramas are mainly for the crew watching. Informal punishments generally do not gather crew members and are not documented.

Theft on ships is considered particularly bad, and the punishment for theft is increased. Nine-tailed whip tied three knots each to aggravate the pain.

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Corporal punishment was abolished in Britain in 1948. Nine-tailed whip was also used in Australia until 1957, and it is still used in some Commonwealth countries.

Corporal punishment was also abolished in 1997 in Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda (2001) and Fiji (2002).

But the former Caribbean colony has recently begun to re-establish flogging punishment. Antigua and Barbuda was re-established in 1990 and Bermuda was re-established in 1991, but Bermuda's criminal law was abandoned according to the Bermuda government's official website, and Barbados was reintroduced in 1993 (but its Supreme Court ruled that the penalty was inhuman and violate constitution). Jamaica introduced whipping in 1994, and in 1998 the Jamaican Court of Appeal ruled against whipping.

Trinidad and Tobago has never abolished whipping. Nine-tailed whip is used by male prisoners over 16 years of age under its corporal punishment law of 1953. The age of use was raised to 18 years in 2000. Trinidad and Tobago banned the use of corporal punishment of minors in 2001. Trinidad and Tobago has been accused of torture and cruel, inhumane and infringing on the prisoner's dignity. In 2005, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Trinidad and Tobago caused "moral damage" to a prisoner by inflicting 15 nine-tail whipping on a prisoner, so it must pay US $ 50,000 and bear the prisoner's medical and psychological care cost. Trinidad and Tobago therefore announced its denial of the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights and no longer recognizes the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

In recent years, the name Nine-tailed Whip has been mistakenly referred to almost all multi-strand whip especially in modern BDSM. These whip are generally made of soft leather, so the possibility of injury is reduced, and care should be taken not to cause very great pain when using it, especially the wound it causes should be within the acceptable range of voluntary participants.