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
USS Scourge (1846) New Orleans, Louisiana to another country on 7 October 1848. USS Scourge (1846) USS "Scourge" was a steamer warship in service during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). She was the third United States Navy ship of that name. The ship was built as merchant steamer "Bangor", by Betts, Harlan, and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware. She was powered by twin screws and was the first iron-hulled, sea-going merchant vessel in the United States. She was bought by the U.S. on December 30, 1846 for service in the Gulf of Mexico. Once equipped, she was renamed "Scourge" under the command of Lieutenant Charles