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pricking

ordeal in which the body of a suspect witch was pricked with pins to try to identify a Devil's mark
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pricking

Summary

pricking is a torture[1]. pricking draws 26 Wikipedia views per month (torture category, ranking #12 of 11).[2]

Key Facts

  • pricking's image is recorded as Witch-pricking Needles00.gif[3].
  • pricking's instance of is recorded as torture[4].
  • pricking's subclass of is recorded as trial by ordeal[5].
  • pricking's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c_bhq[6].
  • pricking's different from is recorded as scratching[7].
  • pricking's uses is recorded as clock hand[8].
  • pricking's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 00946605-n[9].

Why It Matters

pricking draws 26 Wikipedia views per month (torture category, ranking #12 of 11).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . witches.shca.ed.ac.uk. witches.shca.ed.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . witches.shca.ed.ac.uk. witches.shca.ed.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). pricking. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/pricking
MLA “pricking.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/pricking.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pricking_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pricking}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pricking}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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