英语词汇burn or hang in effigy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

burn or hang in effigy. I’ve found effigies washed up on New York City beaches several times—once two small plastic dolls bound together face-to-face with the names of lovers taped on their foreheads and hundreds of pins stuck in their bodies; on another occasion, an unhusked coconut that represented the head of a real person and had a message carved on it, urging her death. This handiwork of members of local voodoo cults shows that the practice of executing, burning, or hanging peo- ple in effigy still exists, as it has since prehistory. It means, of course, “to vent one’s wrath on a facsimile or copy of a hated person in the hope of insulting him or actually harming him.” Apparently, no one gave a name to the practice until the 17th century, when the phrase in effigy is first recorded in a beautiful sermon of John Donne (1617): “In those that are damned be- fore, we are damned in Effigie.” Effigy itself, for “a likeness or image,” is from the Latin effigies, meaning the same, and was first written effigies until this was mistaken for a plural and the s that should be in the word was dropped. The practice of hang- ing people in effigy to disgrace them publicly dates back long before the French Revolution, when it was customary for the public executioners to hang an effigy of a criminal if the crimi- nal himself couldn’t be found.

词汇	burn or hang in effigy
词源	burn or hang in effigy. I’ve found effigies washed up on New York City beaches several times—once two small plastic dolls bound together face-to-face with the names of lovers taped on their foreheads and hundreds of pins stuck in their bodies; on another occasion, an unhusked coconut that represented the head of a real person and had a message carved on it, urging her death. This handiwork of members of local voodoo cults shows that the practice of executing, burning, or hanging peo- ple in effigy still exists, as it has since prehistory. It means, of course, “to vent one’s wrath on a facsimile or copy of a hated person in the hope of insulting him or actually harming him.” Apparently, no one gave a name to the practice until the 17th century, when the phrase in effigy is first recorded in a beautiful sermon of John Donne (1617): “In those that are damned be- fore, we are damned in Effigie.” Effigy itself, for “a likeness or image,” is from the Latin effigies, meaning the same, and was first written effigies until this was mistaken for a plural and the s that should be in the word was dropped. The practice of hang- ing people in effigy to disgrace them publicly dates back long before the French Revolution, when it was customary for the public executioners to hang an effigy of a criminal if the crimi- nal himself couldn’t be found.
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