I'm sure there's some clever rationale for the painter taking the trouble to paint this. The operative word is "trouble"...the artist was clearly troubled, as in possessed.
Ugh! Oh, no! Not the Benedictines again!!! Isn't corporal punishment reserved for these types of things in the Holy Rule? (Unless they left their copy of the Holy Rule under the Breviarium Monasticum--in a closet, covered with dust, spider webs, and real iconography.)
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