Neville is flogged at school over a Bible quotation

As a boy of nine in Barbados he was flogged by his schoolmaster because he quoted “Take up thy bed and walk” and could not produce his own Bible against the master's “Take up your couch and walk”; he was beaten with a long cane until he bled from his buttocks to his knees.
Date (happened)
c. 1914
unresolved
  1. c. 1914 stated · probable · preferred
    Source The Riddle ¶10"as a boy of nine", told in The Riddle (nid 1923)
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 10 March 1967 estimated
    Source The Riddle ¶10passage 549189 (lecture nid 1923 'The Riddle'), delivery claims d1/d2/d3 all 1967-03-10 exact/certain, independently sourced
    Reasoning Passage 549189 is Neville narrating his own boyhood caning at school in Barbados directly ('So my one outstanding corporeal punishment in this world was for the Bible... he brought in this cane... beat me until he brought blood'). The lecture containing this passage, nid 1923, carries four delivery claims that all agree: a coarser circa-March-1967 claim plus three independently derived exact claims (internal Monday/Good-Friday sequence inference, a chrome dateline, and a cross-check against hist_event 20157) all landing on 1967-03-10 at certain confidence. The telling inherits that exact date at certain confidence.
Sources

Source

  • The Riddle ¶10 (So he brought in this cane this long, you could bend it all around, placed me over the place, and beat me until he brought blood. I was bleeding from my buttocks down to my knees for the Bible. So, as a boy of nine, that happened to me.)