Has anyone here every heard of any tie ups being used as initiation in boarding schools? An odd question I know lol. I was speaking to my friend the other day, who comes from a very posh background, and he was telling about a restraining method used on his school called the crucifix, were the shaft of a broom would be threaded through a persons sleeves and behind their back, forcing their arms out, whilst a second broom would be placed down their colour and through a trouser leg, forming a makeshift cross, and the person could then be hung on a hook (not sure if he meant by the horizontal broom or not). I was quite surprised at this, as I thought such shenanigans (and indeed boarding schools) belonged back in the 1920s.
Has anyone else heard of anything similar?