Torture is the known and intentional act of inflicting physical or psychological pain on an organism as a means of punishment. Torture has been carried out throughout history from ancient times to modern day. It has been an unavoidable reality for many people who had been the victim of such events. The use of intellect for the non humanitarian cause led to the invention of such devices and here are some cruel devices to prove the point.
6. BRAZEN BULL
Brazen Bull was one of the cruel execution device designed in Ancient Greece. The Perillos of Athens invented the device for executing criminals and proposed to Phalaris of Sicily. The device was a hollow bull made entirely of bronze with a entry door on one side. The bull was incorporated with tube and stoppers so that the scream of the criminals would be converted into the sound like the bellowing of an infuriated bull. The criminals are placed inside the bull through the entry door and locked while the executioner set fire all around the bull until the heating metal roast the person to death. The bones were later on collected and crafted into bracelets and ornaments for market purpose.
The most interesting fact about Brazen bull is that, the invention led to the death of the inventor in the self designed device itself. Sad but True.
5. THE JUDAS CHAIR
It is a torture device in the form of a stool where the seat is in the form of a pyramid facing upward. It was used during the time of spanish inquisition. The victim was hanged with waist harness and seated above the pyramid seat with the point inserted in the a**s or vag**a ,then the victim is slowly lowered by ropes. The act causes intense pressure and stretches the orifice causing the muscle tissue to tear apart which could turn into septic and kill the victim form infection. During the act the Victims are made naked and legs are tied to increase humiliation.
4. THE BREAKING WHEEL
It was a brutal torture device used as a means of capital punishment from the historical period of greeco - roman world to modern times. The wheel which is a wooden wagon with radial spokes , is used for public execution by breaking the bones of the criminals bludgeoning to death. The criminals limbs were smashed with a club or iron cudgel, until it breaks . Once the bones were broken, the victims limbs were braided into the spokes of the wheel. The wheel is then erected horizontally on a tall pole for the birds to eat the body so that the victim die slowly with agony. The event of the wheel breaking the criminal is witnessed by many people as it attracted more public then the usual hangings .
3. THE CUCKING STOOL
Cucking stools were chairs used for punishing disorderly women, women who broke public peace by habitual arguing and quarelling with nieghbour, in England and Scotland. The stools were used to enforce law through social humiliation. The stools had no standard design. The victims were tied to the chair and exposed at her door or site of her offence for public humiliation. Some chairs are crafted with wheels so that the victim can be pulled all around the parish for humiliation. Some are tied to the chair and plunged into water. hence also called ducking stool.
2. THE WOODEN HORSE
1. IRON MAIDEN
The Iron maiden was a medieval torture device consisting of an iron cabinet with spikes on the inner surface and hinged front, tall enough to enclose a human being.The door allows the entry of the victims and were closed once the victim were inside. The closing of the door cause the spikes to impale the victim's vital organs. The spikes were placed in specific positions so that the victim would not die immediately instead linger and bleed to death over several hours.Two spikes were specially place in order to penetrate the eyes. The device was also known as Iron maiden of Nuremberg where it was popularized and displayed for the first time in 1802 although many thought it to be more of a fiction.
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