Medieval instruments of torture

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67 photo + explanation

Mankind is very resourceful. Progress is fast and not very choosy in the media. 300-400 years ago glands invented many uses ...

02. "iron cage" for naughty.

03. So tight in an iron suit.

04. But he, poor fellow

05. Another cell, only wooden

06. Victim forgetfulness, or simply - gnarly.

07. Head to the cola ...

08. scaffold and ax cutting off the head

09. Sword executioner

10. "Neck trap»

11. "Cat's Paw" (or "Spanish tickled") for flaying ribbons
Hand saws for cutting in half the victims, hanging upside down.

12. "Kolenodrobilka»
Not only crushes her knees and bones, joints, and stabbed in the belly. The victim died from blood loss (if not from a painful shock)

13. "Prayer Cross" (or "anchor") for long-term fixation of the offender in a very awkward position - position of obedience and humility that helped subdue the will of the victim. Sometimes it was kept for weeks

14. The chair of interrogation applied in Central Europe. In Nuremberg and Fegensburge until 1846 were regularly conducted the preliminary investigation of its use. Naked prisoner seated on a chair in such a position that at the slightest movement in his skin pierced studs. Typically, the torture lasted for several hours, and butchers often reinforced flour agonizing victim, piercing her limbs, using forceps or other instruments of torture. These chairs were of different shapes and sizes, but all of them were equipped with spikes and immobilization means sacrifice.

15. Meet - rack.
This is one of the most common instruments of torture occurring in historical descriptions. Rack used throughout Europe. Typically, this tool is a large table with legs or without them, who were forced to lie on the convict and his arms and legs were fixed with the help of wooden planks. Immobility thus sacrifice "stretched", causing her excruciating pain, often for as long as the muscles are not torn. Rotating drum for pulling chains used not on all the buck, but only in the most ingenious "upgraded" model. The executioner could cut up the victim's muscles to accelerate the final break tissue. The victim's body was stretched out more than 30 cm before the break. Sometimes the victim was tied tightly to the rack to make it easier to use other methods of torture, such as forceps for clamping nipples and other sensitive parts of the body, burning with hot irons, and others.

16. The gallows and the guillotine

17. A product produced by the guillotine

18. water torture.
Prisoner tied to a pole and his crown slowly, deliberately, large drops of water falling. After a while, every drop surrendered head infernal roar. Gradually falling cold water causes a spasm of blood vessels of the head, the greater the longer the torture continued. Gradually the focus of oppression grew the entire cerebral cortex. In the end, the convict lost consciousness from a severe punishment.

In Russia in 1671 was a torture of Stepan Razin.

19. "Nuremberg virgin" got its name from the resemblance to the Bavarian girl and because her prototype was developed and first used in the dungeon of a secret court in Nuremberg.
Charges placed in the sarcophagus where the body of the unfortunate punctures the sharp spines arranged so that no vital organs had not been hurt, and agony lasted for a long time. The first case of litigation with "Virgin" is dated 1515 year. He was described in detail by Gustav Freytag in his book «bilder aus der deutschen vergangenheit». Punishment befell guilty of forgery, which suffered a sarcophagus inside three days.