Scourge same period we meet with the private use of the "discipline" by such saintly persons as King Louis IX of France and Elisabeth of Hungary. Semi-literal usages such as "the scourge of God" for Attila the Hun (i.e. "God's whip with which to punish the nations") led to metaphoric uses to mean a severe affliction, e.g. "the scourge of drug abuse". The scourge is described as one of the tools used in Wicca, primarily in the Gardnerian Tradition. The purpose of using the scourge is not to cause pain or to torture, but for purification purposes, particularly for Initiates. The
Scourge (Transformers) his Cyber Key power. In robot mode, his tail transforms into a huge battle axe. It is not known why it is called 'Scourge' in the English release of the series. Likely this name is arbitrarily tagged on to the character so that U.S. audiences may readily identify him. Unfortunately this creates much confusion and inconsistency between the way Scourge is depicted in the television series and the description of it as a toy in the US, because the television series, which originated from Japan, never intended the character to be 'Scourge', but rather a Convoy-type character (hence its Japanese