20+ Dread items from the past from which the blood run cold

Throughout history, man has always sought knowledge. Since then, as the man began to walk upright, he was actively engaged in the study of everything new. After a while, people started to create things, which at that time were considered absolutely normal, but looking at them now, these things run goosebumps. We invite you to historic photographs of things from the past, some of which are used in medicine, others not, but all of them otedinyaet that they are terrible.

A chair with spikes of the 18th century, created for the execution of witches, death occurs from bleeding





Shkatula poisons disguised as a book, 17th century



Tripod designed for posthumous shooting people, which was very common in the Victorian era. The dead were attached to the stand and in the photo looked like alive. These photos were made in memory of the untimely deceased relative



This image is a post-mortem was done by the stand described above



Ancient tool for bloodletting in 1850



Chastity belt for men of the 16th century

The head of the mummy, which was used as props at the festivals in 1900



Motorcycle-hearse firm Norton



In 1938, the post offices in London were allowed to send ducks rabbits and other game by mail, it lasted until until the postmen did not deliver mail stained with blood of slaughtered animals



Announcement of 1855, which invites wealthy slaves to the fair, where they could buy one or more. People are sold like cars, are also described in the ad, what one or another good servant



The prosthetic foot big toe found in a tomb in the necropolis of Thebes Tabeketenmut



Set to hunt vampires, 19th century



Medical saws designed for cutting bones of patients



The prosthetic left arm, 1850-1910



Victorian set for injection of morphine



Mary Magdalene in the crypt of the Basilica of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in France



Wooden penis on the spring in a box, 19th century



Ancient artifacts kunstkamery (head and hands of children) stored in the museum Mutter



Anatomical models of human 17th century



Vintage picture of the performance of the freak show freaks



Gynecologic model of plaster Dr. Oz Louis (Louis Auzou), 1880



Vintage Halloween costume



This enclosure is called «Mortsafe» and was coined in the 18th century in Scotland, where there were many medical students, and to practice all the bodies was not enough, so they got into the habit to dig the grave. People do not want their relatives' graves were dug up and passed on their body practices put on the graves of those fences