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 of the Underworld to try and kill Captain America via having him confront "ghosts" of several villains who had recently died in battle against him. Later on, in "Captain America" #347, Albert Malik, the communist villain who assumed the Red Skull identity during the 1950s, is killed by a mercenary that breaks the man out of prison only to kill communist. After killing Malik, the mercenary shouts the Scourge's catchphrase. In "Captain America" #350, Scourge is shown to be part of an assembly of villains working for the Red Skull, many of which Captain America had fought following the Red Skull's "death" in