Ritual Scourging

I was making notes for my class this morning, and it suddenly occurred to me that I don't have any personal experience with ritual scourging as practiced in some branches of Traditional witchcraft (or other groups with codified rituals and initiations).

Does anyone here have that experience, or know someone who does who would be willing to share with me? Or have a pointer to good material on it? (There's an account in Kaldera's Dark Moon Rising, but I'd like to have several resources.)

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Thanks!

I've Recovered My Words

I'm finally feeling verbally coherent again.

If anyone wants to know the credits for or stories behind any of the images I posted last night, feel free to ask.

Images

It's amazing how much comfort it gave me to make the collages last night -- the one I posted and the one I made for myself. I love words so much, but sometimes I need to go let go of them and go straight to the emotion of images. Shaping them, placing them, balancing them was also a different kind of mental/creative engagement for me. It wasn't so much with the one I posted here, because the LJ formatting limited what I could do, but I spent at least an hour on a collage I did in PowerPoint, balancing each piece.