Wippingham

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  • whipping them → St Patrick banishing the snakes
  • Dick Whittington: thrice Lord Mayor of London
  • The Whippingham Papers: a Victorian work of sado-masochistic pornography by St George Stock (a probable pseudonym, also credited with The Romance of Chastisement) and published by Edward Avery in December 1887; it consists of a collection of pieces on flagellation, some of which were contributed anonymously by Algernon Charles Swinburne, including his 94-stanza poem "Reginald's Flogging".
  • Whippingham: a village near East Cowes on the Isle of Wight