Queen Victoria's effigy, in various stages of queenliness, stands at many points in the metropolis. |
These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung, usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory. |
As colonists' anger over the Stamp Act built, a tax official was burned in effigy from the limbs of an elm estimated to be 120 years old. |
After the public procession, the effigy is buried, destroyed, or abandoned in the forest. |
The protesters also burned an effigy of the House of Representatives Speaker. |
A university student was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail for burning an effigy of the President during a protest march last year. |