Emperors in the East liked to use torture to consolidate their dominance. The most famous are the five horses divided into corpses, a thousand knives, etc., whose cruel methods and the tragic situation of the victims are chilling, and in this respect, the Western monarchs are also very similar, and the cruelty of this torture they invented even exceeds Ling Chi.
First of all, you need to prepare a large yellow bull made of brass, which is not used to ride, but to carry people. Therefore, it needs to have a hollow belly, and it must be able to hold the next person. What about after putting people in? Is it just waiting for the prisoner to suffocate and die? In this case, there is nothing unusual about it. In fact, putting people into copper bulls is only the first step, and then the torture really begins.
Put the prisoner into the belly of the copper bull
The executioners would set up a fire under the belly of the copper cow to roast the prisoner alive. This process does not happen overnight, it takes a certain amount of time, and the thermal conductivity of brass is excellent, so the temperature in the stomach will soon rise sharply. When people are locked inside, they first feel the sultry sensation of the temperature of the space rising, and secondly, they feel the brass under them scorching the skin on their bodies. The prisoners were miserable.
The main purpose of torture is to make the executioner feel the pleasure of ill-treatment. And the copper bull punishment, the executioner can not even see the prisoners locked in the copper bull, where is the fun?
The cow's mouth amplifies the screams of prisoners
In fact, this copper bull also has the most wonderful place, that is, his mouth, this bull's mouth is the essence of the whole torture device. The anguished prisoner would make a desperate and painful cry in the belly of the cow, and this cry would be transmitted through the mouth of the copper bull to the outside, and the wonderful thing would become the sound of the old cow mooing, which was the happiness of the executioner.
Cannon branding was invented by the King of Shang and Dai Ji to punish slaves, the same brass pillar, the prisoner tied to it, burned until it was hot and red, the prisoner would become hot and uncomfortable as the temperature of the pillar increased, and the skin and flesh would be scorched and blackened, until finally burned alive.
In fact, there are some similarities between the copper bull punishment and the cannon burning, both of which are burned on the fire and burned to death, but there are slight differences. In contrast, in the belly of the copper cow, it will feel more suffocated and hypoxic, and its cruelty can be said to be even better.
Today, these inhuman punishments have long disappeared in the long river of history, leaving only some torture instruments with traces of age, left in museums for people to visit and study.