Editor: Historical Illustrated Book
1. The Iron Maiden, a huge coffin shaped like a human face, is covered with iron nails that pierce the victim's body once they are trapped. This torture instrument is not an instant death weapon, and the thin iron nail causes the victim to struggle to death in severe pain, which often takes up to a day.
2. Breast forceps are metal claws that pierce the exposed breasts of the victim tied to the wall, and then forcibly pull outwards to chop the breasts, using the claws either to heat them or place ice cubes.
3. Punishment
4. The "Cradle of Judah" is a simple torture instrument with a pyramidal structure and three wooden legs at the top, resembling a simple stool. During the torture, the victim was hung naked from it, and his hands and feet were tied to the gears with ropes. The victim was then slowly placed on top of the torture apparatus and even attached to a heavy object until the pelvis was torn.
5. Rotational punishment: The victim (usually naked) has his limbs tied to the ground separately. The wooden spokes correspond to the main joints, and the executioners break the limbs and joints with heavy iron-clad wheels, which are braided to the spokes of the wheels and then hung face out. Tortured prisoners will remain in this state for several days.
6. Diell Execution: Tie a person to the horns of a bull in the gladiatorial arena, and then, the gladiator swings a javelin to stimulate the bull, the bull struggles wildly in pain, and the prisoner is tortured by the bull's collision and tearing, and finally dies in agony.
7. Testicular punishment, against male monarchs. The testicles of these deposed monarchs were crushed by the executioners with pliers, causing them to die of pain.
Famous torturer: Osman II
8. Bronze Ox Punishment: The prisoner was imprisoned in a closed copper bull, subjected to flames and psychological torture, and finally breathed through the tube to make the sound of the cow's roar, and his pain and fear were indescribable.
9. Breaking wheel, also known as Catherine wheel. The convicted will be tied to the wheel and mercilessly beaten with a hammer until the bones and tendons are broken and their lives are over.
10. Rat Punishment: Several rats are put in cages, and the cage mouth becomes their only way out. However, the executioner blocked the opening with the victim's abdomen, then heated the cage, and the rat fled frantically due to the unbearable heat, and finally burrowed into the victim's body.
11. Rack: The torture instrument is a wooden frame with two planks with sharp nails on it, and the victim is tortured after his hands are tied. The executioner also lifts the victim's leg and uses the torture instrument to strip the bones until the victim collapses.
12. Coffin cage: The prisoner is placed in a metal cage, suspended in a cold or hot environment, suffering from starvation and dehydration, and birds or animals will come to eat his meat, leaving the prisoner to die slowly in a long period of torment.
13. Piercing Punishment: Piercing a person with spikes in a string
14. Waterboarding: The prisoner's face is covered by a towel, and water is then poured on it.
15. Nail chair
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