What is Poena cullei?
'''Poena cullei''', or the '''penalty of the sack''' was an ancient Roman form of execution imposed on people convicted of [[patricide]], or the [[murder]] of one's [[parent]]s. It involved being sewn into a [[sack]] with vicious animals, most commonly a [[monkey]], [[snake]], and [[chicken]], but others were sometimes used as well. The sack was then thrown into a body of water to sink. In the course of drowning, the animals would attack one another and the human in the bag. Poena cullei probably varied in frequency of usage. The earliest account of which dates to [[100]] [[BCE]] and by [[300]] [[CE]] it had largely fallen out of favour. The method of execution enjoyed a short resurgence in [[Germany]] during the [[medieval]] era. [[Category:Capital punishment]]