Outlaw
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The point about social bandits is that they are peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society, and are considered by their people as heroes, as champions, avengers, fighters for justice, perhaps even leaders of liberation, and in any case as men to be admired, helped and supported. This relation between the ordinary peasant and the rebel, outlaw and robber is what makes social banditry interesting and significant ... Social banditry of this kind is one of the most universal social phenomena known to history."--Primitive Rebels (1959) by Eric Hobsbawm |
"Before the blind man could withdraw his long nose that was choking Lazarillo, his "stomach revolted and discharged the stolen goods in his face, so that his nose and that hastily chewed sausage left (Lazarillo's) mouth at the same time".
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An outlaw is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, meaning literally "outside the law." In the common law of England, a judgment declaring someone an outlaw was one of the harshest penalties in the legal system, since the outlaw could not use the legal system to protect them if needed, e.g. from mob justice. However, romanticised outlaws became stock characters in several fictional settings, particularly in Western movies.
See also
- American Old West
- Vigilante
- Pirate
- Buccaneer
- Gangster
- Hajduk
- Highwayman
- Brigandage
- Thuggee cult
- Outlaw motorcycle club
- Shanlin
- Shifta
- Social bandits, a term invented by Eric Hobsbawm
- Honghuzi ("red beards")
- Thug
- Dacoit
- Klepht
