As an addition tothe weird names thread, I thought we should have one for people (or places) whose names are just a little too appropriate to the situation.
Here's a starter - taken from an academic paper on self-harm in the Long Eighteenth Century:
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The reasons recorded certainly included the idea that self-mutilation might relieve rather than inflict pain, as Scarry suggests; nonetheless, the somatic language often employed in nineteenth-century descriptions of mental illness tended to mean this relief was expressed in physical rather than psychological terms.
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