Wonder Women
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Amazons - The Black Spartas
The amazons were tested in every way imaginable, both physically and psychologically. They had to drill every single day, train with weapons and even crawl over razor sharp thorn bushes. The goal was to harden these women both to bodily pain and emotional distress. And that meant immersing the younger recruits in the sights, sounds and smells of death - which often required their direct participation in ritual killings. In 18 89, a french naval officer visited the kingdom and actually managed to witness one of these rituals. What he saw was a teen ge amazon, just a kid who hadn't killed anyone yet, and she was forced to decapitate a bound prisoner. According to him, she did it
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