The History of Death by Boiling

Death by boiling pops up many times in global tales and traditions, often as a means of state execution for all sorts of things like sorcerers. Some accounts may be legendary, but there are plenty of very believable historic cases of boiling executions. It was practised into the sixteenth century in france and germany as a punishment for clipping coins. This is when you would scrape the edges off of coins, and then melt those scrapings down to make new coins. The practice was finally defeated by knilling the edges of coins.