Word: hante
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...told your mother a 'hant' story which you'd better have her read to you. This old place cracks and pops all night long and you can imagine that old Jackson or Andy Johnson or some other ghost is walking. Why they'd want to come back I could never understand. It's a nice prison but a prison nevertheless. No man in his right mind would want to come here of his own accord...
...powerful Yardlings should roll to their fourth consecutive dual meet triumph against the Brown freshmen. "In Brown scores 30, I'll be surprised." said Harvard freshman coach Pappy Hant yesterday...
...hant, whose findings caused something of a stir in France when they were publicized recently in the Paris daily Le Monde, bases his conclusion on a study of both Roman historical references to crucifixions and reports by Nazi prison-camp survivors who saw the grisly method of killing carried out during World War II. Nailed to the cross by wrists and ankles, the victim, in a desperate struggle for breath, alternately shifted his weight from arms to legs until he slumped down utterly exhausted. With the body weight resting on the arms, the diaphragm could no longer expel carbon dioxide...
Although he is a devout Roman Catholic, Bréhant seriously questions whether Jesus could have lasted anything like three hours on the Cross, and argues that hardly ever in Western art is there a "medically accurate and scientifically serious portrayal of the event." The reason, he explains, is that the Cross itself did not become an object of veneration for pious Christians until about the 5th century-more than 100 years after Constantine abolished crucifixion from the Roman Empire as a method of capital punishment...
Forced to rely more on imagination than on eyewitness accounts, artists of subsequent ages customarily pictured Jesus stretched on a crux sublimis, towering high above the earth, which the Romans reserved exclusively for illustrious victims. An obscure carpenter from Nazareth, contends Bréhant, would have rated nothing more than the low T-shaped cross, scarcely taller than a man, that was used for the execution of common criminals...