{"id":1095,"date":"2025-12-22T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:21:39","slug":"in-20th-century-scotland-roving-gangsters-punished-each-other-by-carving-the-sides-of-a-victims-mouth-into-a-demented-grin-known-as-the-glasgow-smile-but-this-bloody-practice-didnt-end-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naekokozawa.online\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"In 20th-century Scotland, roving gangsters punished each other by carving the sides of a victim’s mouth into a demented grin known as the “Glasgow smile.” But this bloody practice didn’t end there."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mitchell Library, Glasgow<\/span>Glasgow razor gangs like the Bridgeton Team popularized the Glasgow smile, an eerie set of scars on either side of a victim\u2019s mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Humans are unusually creative when it comes to dreaming up novel ways to inflict pain, and a few such methods are so gruesome that they have warranted an enduring place in history all their own. The Glasgow smile is one such torture method.<\/p>\n

Inflicted by cutting from one or both corners of the victim\u2019s mouth, sometimes all the way to the ears, the so-called Glasgow smile originated in a dark period in the Scottish city of the same name. The victim\u2019s screams of pain only served to tear the cuts open further, resulting in a terrifying scar that marked the wearer for life.<\/p>\n

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