More just a weird medieval painting than a particularly religious one, perhaps this where the term "getting hammered" came from? Apparently this was the cure for headaches back in the day, no wonder they all died before they reached middle-age! I guess it kind of makes sense to relieve pressure by punching a hole in the offending organ but you would have thought that even the dumbest of our ancestors would have realised that driving rusty nails into anywhere on your body would be excruciating if not fatal! I don't buy it, although, perhaps this was just a myth that was spread around by medieval men to deny wives and girlfriends that age old excuse for not submitting to their carnal desires, sounds more plausible to me.
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