The practice of human branding was abolished in England by 1829.

Human branding is one type of scarification.

The most common forms of body art include tattooing, body piercing, scarification, human branding.

Human branding?

Human branding or stigmatizing is the process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it permanent.