(urth) Catherine

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/25/2011 2:46 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
> If the beheading isn't part of Catherine's sentence, how are they 
> allowed to do it? It is repeated several times that they may not 
> increase or lessen the penalties of their clients. If it is just a 
> stage beheading, why not have anyone do it? They could hire it done, 
> or have an apprentice in drag play the martyr.
>
> I am thinking perhaps there is a double illusion: he is not given a 
> real sword nor just a wooden prop, but something that still draws real 
> blood from real flesh without being fatal. The business with the head 
> and the fuligin drape are as read, but the chrism is true. The 
> hesitation would be because he detects something amiss even beyond his 
> nerves.

All I can tell is that beheading was Katharine's sentence, not Catherine's.