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The folklore the Grimm Brothers unearthed was full of beheadings and torture; the stories were both amusements and cautionary tales.
violent enthusiasts of war, torture, human sacrifice and painful blood-letting rituals, ''whose king was required to stick a rod through the shaft of his own penis on ceremonial occasions.
Whitewater Torture
A trial of Pinochet would, moreover, "show that western democracies do not now believe that torture and murder can ever be excused for political or economic reasons," it added.
On Saturday (8 p.m.), HBO airs Steven Spielberg's uneven slave-revolt drama, Amistad , with strong performances by Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, and newcomer Djimon Hounsou as the noble Cinque, who recently guest-starred on ER as a noble Nigerian torture victim who becomes . . . a janitor.