Other even stranger exercises were sometimes practiced. A story is told of a certain man from Yingchow City, Hunan, who is reputed to have had an exceptionally large penis, supposedly nine inches in length and as thick as a hand could hold. It was thought that such a penis was congenital until twenty years later the man's servant broke into laughter when he saw some calves. When asked the reason for this outburst he replied that his master used to tie the legs of a 3-4 months' old heifer calf to four poles and insert his penis twice daily into its vagina in the belief that this increased the size of his penis.
from
Traditional Chinese Attitude to Sex and Women by Amos Wong, M.D.
published in Marriage Hygiene, second series
Vol. 1, No. 3 - February, 1948
If any person wishes to increase the size of his penis he should go to his room at noon and sit straight with clothes loosened. He should take a deep breath and strain downwards. He should then rub his hands together until they become warm and use one hand to pull on his penis and the other to pull on his scrotum. Then the right hand should be used to rub his abdomen eighty-one times around the right side. While still holding his breath the penis should finally be rubbed with both hands as many times as possible. According to this author, exercises were the only means by which the penis could be increased in size; there were no known effective medicines.
from
Traditional Chinese Attitude to Sex and Women by Amos Wong, M.D.
published in Marriage Hygiene, second series
Vol. 1, No. 3 - February, 1948
Years afterwards a shepherd was driving his herd across the bridge, and saw lying in the sand beneath, a snow-white little bone. He thought that it would make a good mouth-piece, so he clambered down, picked it up, and cut out of it a mouth-piece for his horn. But when he blew through it for the first time, to his great astonishment, the bone began of its own accord to sing:
“Ah, friend, thou blowest upon my bone!
Long have I lain beside the water;
My brother slew me for the boar,
And took for his wife the King’s young daughter.”
“What a wonderful horn!” said the shepherd; “it sings by itself; I must take it to my lord the King.” And when he came with it to the King the horn again began to sing its little song. The King understood it all, and caused the ground below the bridge to be dug up, and then the whole skeleton of the murdered man came to light. The wicked brother could not deny the deed, and was sewn up into a sack and drowned. But the bones of the murdered man were laid to rest in a beautiful tomb in the churchyard.
Before long he saw the beast, which rushed at him; but he held the spear towards it, and in its blind fury it ran so swiftly against it that its heart was cloven in twain. Then he took the monster on his back and went homewards with it to the King.
As he came out at the other side of the wood, there stood at the entrance a house where people were making merry with wine and dancing. His elder brother had gone in here, and, thinking that after all the boar would not run away from him, was going to drink until he felt brave. But when he saw his young brother coming out of the wood laden with his booty, his envious, evil heart gave him no peace. He called out to him: “Come in, dear brother, rest and refresh yourself with a cup of wine.”
The youth, who suspected no evil, went in and told him about the good little man who had given him the spear where with he had slain the boar.
The elder brother kept him there until the evening, and then they went away together, and when in the darkness they came to a bridge over a brook, the elder brother let the other go first; and when he was half-way across he gave him such a blow from behind that he fell down dead. He buried him beneath the bridge, took the boar, and carried it to the King, pretending that he had killed it; whereupon he obtained the King’s daughter in marriage. And when his younger brother did not come back he said: “The boar must have ripped up his body,” and everyone believed it.
But as nothing remains hidden from God, so this black deed was to come to light.
In a certain country there was once great lamentation over a wild boar that laid waste the farmers’ fields, killed the cattle, and ripped up people’s bodies with his tusks. The King promised a large reward to anyone who would free the land from this plague; but the beast was so big and strong that no one dared to go near the forest in which it lived. At last the King gave notice that whosoever should capture or kill the wild boar should have his only daughter to wife.
Now there lived in the country two brothers, sons of a poor man, who declared themselves willing to undertake the hazardous enterprise; the elder, who was crafty and shrewd, out of pride; the younger, who was innocent and simple, from a kind heart. The King said: “In order that you may be the more sure of finding the beast, you must go into the forest from opposite sides.” So the elder went in on the west side, and the younger on the east.
When the younger had gone a short way, a little man stepped up to him. He held in his hand a black spear and said: “I give you this spear because your heart is pure and good; with this you can boldly attack the wild boar, and it will do you no harm.”
He thanked the little man, shouldered the spear, and went on fearlessly.
Impulsive sodomy. A., aged sixteen; gardener's boy; born out of wedlock; father unknown; mother deeply tainted, hystero-epileptic. A. had a deformed, asymmetrical cranium, as well as deformity and asymmetry of the bones of the face. In addition, the whole skeleton was deformed, asymmetrical and small. He had been a masturbator since childhood; always morose, apathetic, and fond of solitude; irritable and pathological in his emotional reaction. He was an imbecile, probably much reduced physically by masturbation, and neurasthenic. Moreover, he presented hysteropathic symptoms (limitation of the visual field, dyschromatopsia [partial color blindness]; diminution of the senses of smell, taste and hearing on the right side; anesthesia of the right testicle, clavus, etc.).
A. was convicted of having committed masturbation and sodomy on dogs and rabbits. At the age of twelve he saw how boys masturbated a dog. He imitated it and could not stop thereafter from abusing dogs, cats and rabbits in this vile manner. Much more frequently, however, he commited sodomy on female rabbits- the only animals that had a charm for him. At dusk he often repaired to his master's rabbit pen in order to gratify his vile desire. Rabbits with torn rectums were repeatedly found. The act of bestiality was always done in the same manner. There were actual attacks that came on every eight weeks, always in the evening, and always in the same way. A. would become very uncomfortable and feel as if someone were pounding his head. He felt as if he were losing his reason. He struggled against the imperative idea of committing sodomy on the rabbits, and thus had an increasing feeling of fear and an intensification of headaches, until it became unbearable. At the height of the attack there were sounds of bells, cold perspiration, trembling of the knees, and, finally, loss of resistive power, with impulsive performance of the perverse act. As soon as this was done he lost all anxiety; the nervous cycle was completed, he was again his own master, deeply ashamed of the deed, and fearful of the return of an attack. A. stated that, when in such a condition, if he were called upon to choose between a woman and a female rabbit, he would choose the rabbit. Also, between attacks, he is partial only to rabbits. In his exceptional states, simple caressing or kissing, etc., of the rabbit typically sufficed to afford him sexual satisfaction; but sometimes, when doing this, he experienced such sexual passion that he was forced to wildly perform sodomy on the animal.
The acts of bestiality mentioned were the only acts that afforded him sexual satisfaction, and they constituted the only manner in which he was capable of sexual indulgence. A. declared that he never had a lustful feeling during the act, only satisfaction, inasmuch as he was thus freed from the painful condition into which he was brought by the imperative impulse.
The medical evidence easily proved that this human monster was a psychic degenerate, an irresponsible invalid, and not a criminal. (Boeteau, La France medicale, vol. 38, no.38).
To murder by smothering. So called from William Burke, an Irish navvy, who with his accomplice William Hare, used to suffocate his victims and sell the bodies to Dr. Robert Knox, an Edinburgh surgeion. Aided by their wives they lured fifteen people to their deaths before their discovery. Hare turned King's Evidence and Burke was hanged in 1829.
When all was ready, she got into a barrel of honey, and then cut the feather-bed open and rolled herself in it, until she looked like a wondrous bird, and no one could recognize her. Then she went out of the house, and on her way she met some of the wedding-guests, who asked:
“O, Fitcher’s bird, how com’st thou here?”
“I come from Fitcher’s house quite near.”
“And what may the young bride be doing?”
“From cellar to garret she’s swept all clean,
And now from the window she’s peeping, I ween.”
At last she met the bridegroom, who was coming slowly back. He, like the others, asked:
“O, Fitcher’s bird, how com’st thou here?”
“I come from Fitcher’s house quite near.”
“And what may the young bride be doing?”
“From cellar to garret she’s swept all clean,
And now from the window she’s peeping, I ween.”
The bridegroom looked up, saw the decked-out skull, thought it was his bride, and nodded to her, greeting her kindly. But when he and his guests had all gone into the house, the brothers and kinsmen of the bride, who had been sent to rescue her, arrived. They locked all the doors of the house, that no one might escape, set fire to it, and the wizard and all his crew had to burn.
The wizard raised the basket on his back and went away with it, but it weighed him down so heavily that the sweat streamed from his face. Then he sat down and wanted to rest awhile, but immediately one of the girls in the basket cried: I am looking through my little window, and I see that you are resting. Will you go on at once?” He thought it was his bride who was talking to him; and got up on his legs again. Once more he was going to sit down, but instantly she cried: “I am looking through my little window, and I see that you are resting. Will you go on directly?” And whenever he stood still, she cried this, and then he was forced to go onwards, until at last, groaning and out of breath, he took the basket with the gold and the two maidens into their parents’ house. At home, however, the bride prepared the marriage feast, and sent invitations to the friends of the wizard. Then she took a skull with grinning teeth, put some ornaments on it and a wreath of flowers, carried it upstairs to the garret-window, and let it look out from thence.
Then he went and brought the third sister, but she was clever and wily. When he had given her the keys and the egg, and had left her, she first put the egg away with great care, and then she examined the house, and at last went into the forbidden room. Alas, what did she behold! Both her dear sisters lay there in the basin, cruelly murdered, and cut in pieces. But she began to gather their limbs together and put them in order, head, body, arms and legs. And when nothing further was wanting the limbs began to move and unite themselves together, and both the maidens opened their eyes and were once more alive. Then they rejoiced and kissed and caressed each other.
On his arrival, the man at once demanded the keys and the egg, and as he could perceive no trace of any blood on it, he said: “You have stood the test, you shall be my bride.” He now had no longer any power over her, and was forced to do whatsoever she desired. “Oh, very well,” said she, “you shall first take a basketful of gold to my father and mother, and carry it yourself on your back; in the meantime I will prepare for the wedding.” Then she ran to her sisters, whom she had hidden in a little chamber, and said: “The moment has come when I can save you. The wretch shall himself carry you home again, but as soon as you are at home send help to me.” She put both of them in a basket and covered them quite over with gold, so that nothing of them was to be seen. Then she called in the wizard and said to him: “Now carry the basket away, but I shall look through my little window and watch to see if you stop on the way to stand or to rest.”
A great bloody basin stood in the middle of the room, and therein lay human beings, dead and hewn to pieces, and hard by was a block of wood, and a gleaming axe lay upon it. She was so terribly alarmed that the egg which she held in her hand fell into the basin. She got it out and wiped the blood off, but in vain, it appeared again in a moment. She washed and scrubbed, but she could not get it off.
It was not long before the man came back from his journey, and the first things which he asked for were the key and the egg. She gave them to him but she trembled as she did so, and he saw at once by the red spots that she had been in the bloody chamber. “Since you have gone into the room against my will,” said he, “you shall go back into it against your own. Your life is ended.” He threw her down, dragged her along by her hair, cut her head off on the block, and hewed her in pieces so that her blood ran on the ground. Then he threw her into the basin with the rest.
“Now I will fetch myself the second,” said the wizard, and again he went to the house in the shape of a poor man, and begged. Then the second daughter brought him a piece of bread; he caught her like the first, by simply touching her, and carried her away. She did not fare better than her sister. She allowed herself to be led away by her curiosity, opened the door of the bloody chamber, looked in, and had to atone for it with her life on the wizard’s return.
There was once a wizard who used to take the form of a poor man, and went to houses and begged, and caught pretty girls. No one knew whither he carried them, for they were never seen again. One day he appeared before the door of a man who had three pretty daughters; he looked like a poor weak beggar, and carried a basket on his back, as if he meant to collect charitable gifts in it. He begged for a little food, and when the eldest daughter came out and was just handing him a piece of bread, he did but touch her, and she was forced to jump into his basket. Thereupon he hurried off with long strides, and carried her away into a dark forest to his house, which stood in the midst of it. Everything in the house was magnificent; he gave her whatsoever she could possibly desire, and said: “My darling, you will certainly be happy with me, for you have everything your heart can wish for.” This lasted a few days, and then he said: “I must journey forth, and leave you alone for a short time; here are the keys of the house; you may go everywhere and look at everything except into one room, which this little key opens, and there I forbid you to go on pain of death.” He likewise gave her a egg and said: “Preserve the egg carefully for me, and carry it continually about with you, for a great misfortune would arise from the loss of it.”
She took the keys and the egg, and promised to obey him in everything. When he was gone, she went all round the house from the bottom to the top, and examined everything. The rooms shone with silver and gold, and she thought she had never seen such great splendour. At length she came to the forbidden door; she wished to pass it by, but curiosity let her have no rest. She examined the key, it looked like any other; she put it in the keyhole and turned it a little, and the door sprang open. But what did she see when she went in?
