Thanksgiving

A Special Punishment day created by Lurking Dragon for his Melody Stories. Foundation day is an American Only 'Horror Day' that is reserved for only the most hardened and horrific of criminals and depicts scened based on the 'Pilgrim' punishments for criminals in the 1800's. experiencing this day suffer a great deal.

Justification
Officially The worst Horror SPD in existance, even worse than Foundation day. Reserved for only the most hard case pennies (meaning pennies mostly age 3 to 8) thanksgiving is usually reserved for severe cases of pennies who committed the most horrendous murders and/or rapes. The day itself is a combination day. Themed like a pilgrims picnic, everybody attending theoretically dresses like a Pilgrim in ancient clothing, and attending what could be confused as a rent fair with old fashioned clothing, street performers and of course public floggings.

Pennies attending but not taken part usually have a large golden P embroidered on the chest of their clothes to show that they arent taking part in any of the punishments and this is important because as well as fun Pilgrim themes activities there are a number of other activities that participating pennies go through during the day. None of these activities have to be performed at a specific time but are performed in order. (Thanksgiving is not a whole day event) however most pennies would begin with;

Switching at the bench
Simple as it sounds, along the sides of the road and courts are hard benches where a correction officer will hand you a switch. The child typically recieves their age (in MONTHS) divided by two. They are then left pants down to sit on the hard wooden bench for a good 15 minutes.

Flogging at the pilliory
A number of pilliory of different heights (seen right) are scattered around the place. With inacurate padding on them for the childrens safety the child is loaded in and given ten strokes with a leather strap.

Paddling at the bench
usually done with the child's own paddle, again the age in months divided by two.

In between these events they are permitted to watch each others punishments or watch the street performers and historically correct displays. At 5pm there would be a massive Thanksgiving dinner (provided by the city council and the historical society to be period accurate). After dinner however the punishments resume.

Returning back to the Pilliory
For their second strapping of the day this time all pennies got 20 strokes, applying not just to the rump but also to the thighs. By this point most pennies should be Well and Truely blistered.

Controversy
And I mean well and truely. Did I mention this punishment was only for THE WORST OFFENDERS. The kind who once upon a time would have got death sentences! After this strapping rather than sat on a bench the pennies are placed in stocks (with their hand AND feet secured so they have to sit) and left their till they had stopped crying and it was time to go home.