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What is talion?

What is talion? Here are some definitions.

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Until the end of the 18th century, talion provided the rationale for such corporal punishments as flogging, branding, mutilation, the stock, and the pillory.
But it is to be questioned whether the rule of talion is the right one for the Kabyles.
Resurrected from death and inextricably linked to a Wraith Spirit, Talion ventures on a quest of vengeance and discovery to unearth why he has been denied the peace of death.
Talion is revived from the dead between the events of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The protagonist, a ranger named Talion, is killed in the prologue, but his corpse is reanimated by an angry spirit named Celebrimbor.
We're witnessing the demise of talion, the English word that describes punishment meted out to match the offense.

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