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Slugger Wakers
- Priests used to employ slugger wakers to combat sleeping during church services.
- These individuals would poke dozing parishioners awake with long sticks, sometimes up to 10 feet long.
Sexism in Church
- Women received gentler treatment from slugger wakers, getting tickled with a brush.
- Men, however, were poked with the knobbed end of the stick.
Royal Prank
- The Queen of France, Anne of Austria, pranked a six-year-old girl by making her believe she was pregnant.
- The prank involved taking in the girl's clothes and placing a live infant in her bed.