Bizarrely appropriate names...

[DanaC]

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:

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.