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10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 4:34pm On Aug 28, 2016
1. KNEE SPLITTER

This device was designed to decimate a person’s limbs with the number of multi-sized spikes, which came down on them. Sometimes the spikes were heated to make the experience more excruciatingly horrible.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 4:38pm On Aug 28, 2016
2. CROCODILE TUBE
Torturers would place a victim’s face or feet OR sometimes both, inside this spiked tube after it was heated, mutilating the person and often killing them.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 4:41pm On Aug 28, 2016
3. BRAZEN BULL

Victims were put inside a large brass bull that sat above a blazing fire. They would die of severe burns or asphyxiation, and their screams inside the metal bull would be amplified to sound like a “maddened ox.”

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 4:43pm On Aug 28, 2016
4. CROCODILE SHEARS

This device looks scary, BUT it’s even worse to know it was used to clamp down on a victim’s penis repeatedly, causing them to bleed to death.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 4:46pm On Aug 28, 2016
5. THE WHEEL

Torturers used The Wheel in various ways, sometimes the victim’s limbs were bludgeoned by an iron bar while being tied, and at other times a fire was lit underneath the wheel while it slowly rotated, causing the body to burned repeatedly. Sometimes a victim was tied to the wheel while facing the sun and left to die rotting for the birds.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 4:56pm On Aug 28, 2016
6. CRADLE OF JUDAS

During the Spanish Inquisition, a naked victim’s anus or vagina would be placed naked on top of this pointed pyramid and slowly lowered using ropes until the cavity was stretched and eventually impaled.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 5:04pm On Aug 28, 2016
7. THE RACK

A victim’s limb were tied in ropes and then stretched by the turn of handles, causing bones alongside total arms and legs to detach from their bodies. Another version of this device years later included a bed of sharp rusted spikes.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 5:06pm On Aug 28, 2016
8. CAT'S PAW

Torturers used this mechanical ripping devise to tear human flesh from victim’s bones. They would often die from infection from the unwashed, bacteria laden spikes.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 5:08pm On Aug 28, 2016
9. HEAD CRUSHER

As an executioner turned a hand crank, this frightening devise would slowly cause a person’s “jaw and skull to shatter and eyes to pop out!”

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by Nobody: 5:10pm On Aug 28, 2016
10. SPANISH DONKEY

A naked victim would be placed straddling the device as if sitting on a horse. Weights attached to their feet would then be pulled downward, splitting their bodies in half.

Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by abbeycial: 5:21pm On Aug 28, 2016
applying some of these on our corrupt officials or rapists may clear their madness.
Re: 10 Worst Medieval Torture Devices by nnachukz(m): 5:44pm On Aug 28, 2016
The heart of men is desperately wicked. His invention can confirm it.

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