Hook-swinging
[hoo k-swing-ing] /ˈhʊkˌswɪŋ ɪŋ/
noun
1.
a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from attached to the flesh of the back.
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