Travels

I don't know where the term "Indian Burn" came from, but it is used to describe when you take someone's arm or leg and twist the skin with both hands in opposite directions to create an awful feeling kind of like rug-burn.  Well, I have a theory on the origin of the term...perhaps it came from one of the methods of Indian massage I had last week, in which after I was thouroughly marinading in mustard oil, and after I had looked up that the woman massaging me and had the feeling that I was being treated more as a slab of dead meat being prepared for dinner than being massaged...she proceeded to "massage" me by twisitng my arms and legs giving all of my appendages an Indian Burn.  I think must be where the term came from.