Scarification and Maiming were practiced by some of the tribes, always in a symbolic way.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
The "Maiming and distorting" of the imagination filled Dickens with alarm.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Out of the commotion came an animal-like incoherence of snarls and panting profanity, and Victor McCalloway caught the top boy by his shoulder and dragged him forcibly away from what threatened to be Maiming or worse.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck