Ravenstone

"Ravenstone" in a Sentence (3 examples)

[...] — The raven sits / On the raven-stone, And his black wing flits / O'er the milk-white bone; [...]

Three years later, in 1811, King Friedrich of Wurttemberg ordered the dismantling of permanent gallows and ravenstones and the ending of the practice of exposing malefactors' corpses.

In 1811, for instance, King Friedrich of Württemberg ordered that the permanent gallows and ravenstones be dismantled and that the exposure of dead criminal bodies should be abandoned.

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