The making of a eunuch: 1 the gelded village
TESTICLES, NULLIFICATION
A boy is taken with other captives from his village. No intact males are left.
The Gelded Village

The men had fled or been killed. Many of the women had also gone.

Those who were left, where rounded up. They were divided into groups: women
with young children; boys, girls and women without children.

The boys were taken into the village square, stripped and divided into two
groups. Those that had reached puberty had their hands tied above their heads
to one of the branches of the large tree.

The others of us were allowed to pick up our clothes and herded aside.

Then came two older soldiers. The took out their swords and walked round the
dozen boys tied to the tree. At opposite sides of the tree, they walked up to
a boy, grabbed his penis and scrotum and sliced it off. No amount of kicking
or screaming stopped them. Each boy was dealt with in the same way. They
worked their way round the tree until all had been castrated.

They left the several genitals lying on the floor and the new eunuchs still
tied by their hands to the branches.

The women with young children were forced to display their children. A crone
with the soldiers examined them. When they were girls, they were allowed to
go. Some of these women let the castrated boys down and tended their wounds.

Where they had male children, she took out a small sharp knife, openned up
their scrotums and cut off their balls. After this, they were allowed to go
and tend their sons’ wounds.

As for the rest of us, both male and female, we were marched off as captives.
A future in slavery awaited us.

  

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