You may want to go back and reread about the whole tar and feather thing, it’s actually way more fucked up than you may know.
Even if the tar was only like ~140F like an asphalt road can hit pretty easily in the summer, it’s covering your body and sticking to your skin. But this was in a time where they didn’t have fine control of heat, and was likely just warmed over a fire. Very likely aren’t surviving that experience, especially when it was practiced…
You may want to go back and reread about the whole tar and feather thing, it’s actually way more fucked up than you may know.
Even if the tar was only like ~140F like an asphalt road can hit pretty easily in the summer, it’s covering your body and sticking to your skin. But this was in a time where they didn’t have fine control of heat, and was likely just warmed over a fire. Very likely aren’t surviving that experience, especially when it was practiced…