After the full amount of the strokes were received,
the helpless victim would usually remain at the punishment site for some
period of time. Bound and bleeding, he would be pelted with garbage,
feces, and dead animals. You may be asking, what was this
man's crime? What could he have done to deserve this treatment?
Perhaps no real crime at all: This poor peasant farmer may have failed
to pay some or all of an imposed tax or missed some unreasonable commodity
quota owed to a noble - and for that he was publicly flogged.