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The practice of self-scourging has been established in the Roman Catholic Church from time immemorial. 

From Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

Processions of weeping, praying, self-scourging, and half-naked penitents appeared in the streets of all the towns of Christendom.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

The flagellants exerted some of the suggestions of the processions, and they used dramatic devices to set forth their ideas, to say nothing of the dramatic element in the self-scourging.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

These conditions provided a rich soil for the propagation of the crowd-mind when, in the eleventh century, flagellation, a voluntary self-scourging, was preached by the monks.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale