Was heißt »Geißel« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv »Geißel« (auch: Geissel) lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Sie hörten, dass im benachbarten Königreich ein siebenköpfiger Drache sein Unwesen trieb und dass der König demjenigen, der das Land von dieser Geißel befreien würde, seine Tochter zur Frau versprochen hatte.: They heard that a Seven-Headed Dragon was ravaging the neighbouring kingdom, and that the king had promised his daughter's hand to anyone that would free the land from this scourge.

Fluch:: curse; malediction
Gerte:: crop; rod
Prüfung:: audit; check; checking; validation
Rute:: rod
Schicksalsschlag:: blow; blow of fate; stroke; stroke of fate; stroke of misfortune
Schlag:: beat; blow; kind; punch; race; shock; slap; stroke; warbling; whipped cream
Unglück:: misfortune
Unheil:: calamity; disaster
Verhängnis:: disaster; fate; ruin

The coachman cracked his whip, and the carriage began to move.
Even the stadium's PA announcer couldn't whip up the atmosphere.
Even the stadium announcer couldn't whip up the atmosphere.
Every single day, 200-mile-per-hour winds whip around Jupiter.
"Don't you think it's a cruel, barbarous thing to whip a child . . . ANY child?" exclaimed Anne, her face flushing with earnestness.
We'll whip you soundly!
While clearly outside of his element at, say, a Western-style karaoke bar, he could easily whip out a Brazilian folk song in seven-eight meter on his berimbau.