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) of a group of Predacons under Transquito sent to track down the Maximals in a swamp, only to encounter the protoforms that had become the Mutants. The Mutants seemingly killed most of their party, and Scourge and Insecticon fled. He appears among the Predacons on the cover of the first issue of the sequel "Beast Wars: The Ascending". In "Beast Wars: The Ascending" #4 Scourge was among the Maximals and Predacons returned to Cybertron to battle Shokaract. Scourge had a biography printed in the "Beast Wars Sourcebook" by IDW Publishing. The "" version of Scourge, known simply as Black Convoy