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
Known unto God known unto God", though these stones do not seem to be contemporary to the war. The phrase continues to be used in modern works, for example a British poet included it as a line in a work to honour the dead of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014. In 1999 the phrase was carved onto the northern end of the plinth of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Australian War Memorial (AWM). This was despite the original architect Charles Bean's intention that there were to be no religious aspects to the memorial. In 2013 the council of