5 Most Terrible Jobs In History

By siliconindia  |   Tuesday, 27 May 2014, 01:24 IST
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Whipping Boy: A whipping boy can be said as the person who is made to bear the blame for another's mistakes. These little boys were basically assigned to a young prince and was punished when the prince misbehaved or fell behind in his schooling. Whipping boys were generally of high status, and were educated with the prince from birth. Because the prince and whipping boy grew up together they usually formed a strong emotional bond. The strong bond that developed between a prince and his whipping boy dramatically increased the effectiveness of using a whipping boy as a form of punishment for a prince. The idea of the whipping boys was that seeing a friend being whipped or beaten for something that he had done wrong would be likely to ensure that the prince would not commit the same mistake again. Whipping boys were formally established in the English court during the monarchies of the 15th and 16th centuries. 
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