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Originally Posted by johnfowles
OK I have for a long time seriously wondered how the expression "axe murderer" came into existance in the first place.
but why this extremely gruesome choice for a mythically bad person??
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There is Lizzie Borden :
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
That trial captured the imagination of the public in 1893, and perhaps an embellished version was passed down from one generation to another.
But "long before the white man, and long before the wheel", people were chopping each other up with axe-like tools......for real.