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Torture has been used since ancient times, and, unfortunately, it has not disappeared anywhere.

There are many modern methods and instruments of torture that are still used to obtain information, instill fear or punish.

Although medieval and ancient methods of torture are known for their cruelty, modern methods are no less terrifying.

The most terrible tortures

1. Water Dungeon

This method is allegedly used against followers of Falun Da Fa in China. As punishment, the victim is placed in a cage (sometimes spiked), and the cage is then partially submerged in dirty water that reaches up to the captive's neck.

2. Cold chamber

This is one of the advanced interrogation techniques that was legalized by the CIA. The torture involves placing the victim in front of an air conditioner running at full blast for several hours, or even years.

3. Pillory

This is a classic medieval method of punishment in which a person is chained to a stake with a collar and shackles. Although this method has been banned in most countries, it is still used in some areas of the world as a form of public humiliation.

4. Picana

This is a device with which the victim is tortured with a high-voltage, but low-level electric current. The stun gun is applied to sensitive parts of the victim's body, such as the head, mouth, genitals, breasts and nipples.

5. Squatting

This seems like a harmless method, but imagine having to squat continuously for weeks at a time. Sometimes nails are placed under the victim's heels, and the person still has to keep his heels off the floor.

6. Stun gun

Although they are used by police officers around the world, they are considered a form of torture by several international organizations.

7. Rack

This method was used quite often during the Renaissance, but in modern times it has become known as Palestinian hanging. The prisoner is suspended by his arms behind his head, causing his arms to become dislocated and the victim to have incredible difficulty breathing.

8. White torture

This is perhaps one of the most unusual forms of torture ever and I assumes the use of white.

The prisoner is placed in a completely white and silent room, given white food (rice) and deprived of any contact with people. Essentially, this is an extreme form of sensory derivation, in which all senses are turned off.

9. Tucker's phone

This device was used at Arkansas State Prison "Tucker" in the 60's. The wire was attached to the victim's genitals, and the other end to the telephone. When the phone rang, the person received an electric shock.

The most brutal torture

10. Syrian boxesTo

It is also called a torture chamber. The idea itself is simple and truly terrifying. The prisoner is placed in a cramped box with barely enough space, where he lies tied up in an uncomfortable position for many days in a row.

11. Musical torture

It seems strange, but many governments have used music as torture.

The torture consists of continuously playing loud and aggressive music, most often hard rock, to the victim. This deals a serious blow to the senses, leaving no visible traces.

12. Buried Alive

Everything is very clear here. Prisoners are buried alive in the ground, sometimes leaving a tube for breathing.

13. Hellish conclusion

This method essentially involves placing the prisoner's hands and feet in handcuffs and shackles connected by a steel rod. The rod presses on the victim's back, making it virtually impossible for the person to walk, sit, relieve himself or eat.

14. Cat-O-O-Tails

Although a human rights court has attempted to ban the use of the whip in Trinidad and Tobago, it is still used as punishment from time to time.

The scourge is a nine-tailed whip with metal claws at the end. When they dig into the skin during spanking, they cause lacerations to the victim.

15. Thumb vice

This weapon, which was used back in the Middle Ages, was used to crush the fingers of a prisoner. There are reports that various gangs and rebel groups still use this method.

16. Pulling out nails

Pulling out nails is a very painful torture that has been used since ancient times to this day by government and non-government organizations.

17. Dog rape

Allegations of this method of torture have begun to appear with increasing frequency throughout the world. This method leaves little to the imagination, and its name speaks for itself. Dogs are released for sacrifice well, then no need to go into details.

Torture of people

18. Tiger Bench

The torture involves tying the victim to a board and placing bricks under his feet until the straps break or his legs break.

19. Force feeding

Quite often, prisoners who go on hunger strike are force-fed in order to keep them alive and continue to torture them. The World Medical Association considers the participation of doctors in force feeding unethical, because this violates international law.

20. Water torture

This is another interrogation technique that needs no introduction. Water is poured onto the prisoner's face to simulate the sensation of drowning.

21. Branding

Another instrument of torture that has been used since ancient times.

22. German chair

The prisoner is strapped to a chair, and the back of the chair is lowered down to the ground. As you can understand, the human spine cannot withstand such a load.

23. Sleep deprivation

Sleep deprivation was often used during interrogations. They tried to deprive the person of sleep in various ways, for example, by continuously interrogating him or forcing him to sit for days and not allowing him to fall asleep.

24. Deathbed

This method was used in some areas of Asia, where prisoners were tied to a board and left alone for several days without a break. This usually led to muscle atrophy and the victims emerged severely weakened.

In the Middle Ages, the church played a key role in politics and public life. Against the backdrop of the flourishing of architecture and scientific technology, the Inquisition and church courts persecuted dissidents and used torture. Denunciations and executions were widespread. Women were especially helpless and powerless. Therefore, today we will tell you about the most terrible medieval tortures for girls.

Their life was not like the fairy-tale world of chivalric romances. Girls were more often accused of witchcraft and, under torture, confessed to acts they did not commit. Sophisticated corporal punishment amazes with savagery, cruelty and inhumanity. The woman has always been to blame: for infertility and a large number of children, for an illegitimate child and various bodily defects, for healing and violation of biblical rules. Public corporal punishment was used to obtain information and intimidate the population.

The most terrible torture of women in the history of mankind

Most instruments of torture were mechanized. The victim was in terrible pain and died from his injuries. The authors of all the terrible instruments knew the structure of the human body well, each method caused unbearable suffering. Although of course these tools were used not only on females, they suffered more than others.

Pear of suffering

The mechanism was a metal bulb divided into several segments. There was a screw in the middle of the bulb. The device was inserted into the offending woman's mouth, vagina or anus. The screw mechanism opened the segments of the pear. As a result, internal organs were damaged: vagina, cervix, intestines, pharynx. A very terrible death.

The injuries caused by the device were incompatible with life. Usually torture was used on girls accused of having connections with the devil. At the sight of such a weapon, the defendants admitted to cohabiting with the devil and using the blood of babies in magical rituals. But confessions did not save the poor girls. They still died in the flames of the fire.

Witch chair (Spanish chair)

Applied to girls convicted of witchcraft. The suspect was secured with belts and handcuffs on an iron chair, in which the seat, back, and sides were covered with spikes. The person did not die immediately from loss of blood; the thorns slowly pierced the body. The cruel suffering did not end there; hot coals were placed under the chair.

History has preserved the fact that at the end of the 17th century, a woman from Austria, accused of witchcraft, spent eleven days in agony on such a chair, but she died without confessing to the crime.

Throne

A special device for long-term torture. The “throne” was a wooden chair with holes in the back. The woman's legs were fixed in the holes, and her head was lowered down. The uncomfortable position caused suffering: blood rushed to the head, the muscles of the neck and back became tense. But there were no traces of torture left on the suspect’s body.

A fairly harmless weapon, reminiscent of a modern vice, caused pain, broke bones, but did not lead to the death of the person being interrogated.

Stork

The woman was placed in an iron device that allowed her to be fixed in a position with her legs pulled to her stomach. This position caused muscle spasms. Prolonged pain and cramps slowly drove me crazy. Additionally, the victim could be tortured with a hot iron.

Shoes with spikes under the heel

The torture shoes were secured to the leg with shackles. Using a special device, spikes were screwed into the heel. The victim could stand on his toes for some time to relieve the pain and prevent the thorns from penetrating deeply. But it is impossible to stand in this position for a long time. The poor sinner was in for severe pain, blood loss, and sepsis.

"Vigil" (torture by insomnia)

For this purpose, a special chair with a pyramid-shaped seat was created. The girl was seated on the seat; she could not sleep or relax. But the inquisitors found a more effective way to achieve confession. The bound suspect was seated in such a position that the tip of the pyramid penetrated the vagina.

The torture lasted for hours; the unconscious woman was revived and returned to the pyramid, which tore her body and injured her genitals. To intensify the pain, heavy objects were tied to the victim’s legs and a hot iron was applied.

Goats for witches (Spanish donkey)

The naked sinner was seated on a pyramid-shaped wooden block, and a weight was tied to her feet to enhance the effect. The torture caused pain, but unlike the previous one, it did not tear the woman’s genitals.

Water torture

This method of inquiry was considered humane, although it often led to the death of the suspect. A funnel was inserted into the girl's mouth and a large amount of water was poured in. Then they jumped on the unfortunate woman, which could cause a rupture of the stomach and intestines. Boiling water and molten metal could be poured through the funnel. Ants and other insects were often placed into the victim's mouth or vagina. Even an innocent girl confessed to any sins in order to avoid a terrible fate.

Pectoral

The torture device is similar to a chest ornament. Hot metal was placed on the girl’s chest. After interrogation, if the suspect did not die from painful shock and did not confess to a crime against faith, charred flesh remained instead of the chest.

The device, made in the form of metal hooks, was often used to interrogate girls caught in witchcraft or manifestations of lust. This instrument could be used to punish a woman who cheated on her husband and gave birth out of wedlock. A very tough measure.

Witch bathing

The inquiry was carried out during the cold season. The sinner was seated in a special chair and tied tightly. If the woman did not repent, dipping was carried out until she suffocated under the water or froze.

Was there torture of women in the Middle Ages in Rus'?

In medieval Rus' there was no persecution of witches and heretics. Women were not subjected to such sophisticated torture, but for murders and state crimes they could be buried up to their necks in the ground, punished with a whip so that their skin was torn to shreds.

Well, that's probably enough for today. We think that now you understand how terrible medieval torture was for girls, and now it is unlikely that any of the fair sex will want to travel back to the Middle Ages to the valiant knights.

Torture involves inflicting excruciating pain on a person. The most terrible and disgusting instruments of torture were invented in the Middle Ages. No less terrible eastern tortures are known.

The most terrible tortures of the Middle Ages

It is known that torture was especially cruel during the Middle Ages. Only by seeing the instruments of torture can one understand how cruel that time was. The Inquisition, as a system of Christian justice, contributed to the invention of a huge number of instruments with the help of which this “justice” was carried out. Here are some of the most terrible ones.

Heretic's Fork

The device, called the Heretic's Fork, was used during the Spanish Inquiry. The mechanism looked like a double-sided fork, fixed on the neck. Since no vital organs were pierced during this torture, it could last quite a long time.

The fork was engraved with “I renounce.” The fork caused severe pain with any head movement. Gradually, the person’s flesh was affected, and he died from infections.

Pear Torture

The instrument of torture, called the pear torture, is considered one of the most terrible. Not a single person survived her torture.

The weapon looks like a metal pear. It was inserted into the mouth, anus and vagina. As soon as the weapon was inserted inside, it opened, tearing flesh with its sharp tips. Death during torture with such a pear was terrible. Typically, this weapon was used to torture women guilty of a depraved lifestyle and men convicted of homosexuality.

Torture by rats

Torture by rats is very scary. A cage of hungry rats was placed on a naked man's chest. The cage opened from the bottom. After the bolt was removed, the rats gnawed into the body. To make the animals act faster, hot coals were placed on the top of the cage. Wanting to escape the heat, the rats simply gnawed their way through. The person died, experiencing hellish torment.

Cradle of Judas

The torture device, called the Judas Cradle, is shaped like a pyramid. A naked person was placed on its sharp part. Gradually, the device cut into the victim’s body, tearing the anus and twisting the joints.

It is known that after such torture, only a few people survived. The rest died, screaming loudly in pain to the joy of the executioners and spectators.

The most terrible instruments of torture

The invention of instruments for torture was carried out by people who did not feel an ounce of pity for those who were to be tortured with these instruments. They knew exactly how to get the readings they needed. The most important thing for them was to bring as much pain and torment to a person as possible, to make his death terrible and slow. It's hard to believe that human ingenuity could be used for such terrible purposes.

Iron Maiden

The instrument of torture called the “Iron Maiden” was first tested in 1515. Outwardly, it looks like a sarcophagus, inside of which there are many spikes and blades. They are located so as not to touch vital human organs.

During interrogation, the tortured person was placed in such a sarcophagus. The interrogation could last for hours or even days. As soon as a person lost consciousness, he pierced the body, hanging on sharp spikes. Death did not occur immediately and could drag on for several days.

Shiri (camel cap)

This instrument of torture was usually used on slaves. First of all, the offending slave's head was shaved bald, after which the neck (flayed camel skin) was pulled over it. Then these people were taken for five days as far as possible, usually to wastelands. The camel skin dried quickly, tightening the newly shaved scalp. The hair did not grow through the neck, which is why it began to grow inward. The slaves went crazy from hellish pain and soon died.

copper bull

The instrument of torture, called the “Copper Bull,” was invented by Perillus, a coppersmith from Greece. He presented his creation to the famous torturer, the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris.

During torture, a person was placed into a bull through a special door. A fire was lit under the bull's belly. The man screamed desperately as he slowly roasted. The bones of those executed in this way were considered jewelry and amulets. The inventor Perille became the first person to be tortured using a torture device he created.

Terrible oriental torture

Eastern torture was significantly different from the torture invented by European peoples. The main thing in any Eastern torture is to force the victim to experience psychological torment, accompanied by physical torment. It must be said that eastern torture did not always end in death.

To deal with the “enemies of the emperor” in the east, tickling torture and torture with dripping water were used. Another version of torture was a cramped box in which the person imprisoned did not have the opportunity to move any part of the body. The “man-pig” torture was used to make people horrified. The man’s legs were cut off to the knees, his arms to the elbows, his tongue was cut out, he was deafened and blinded. In this state he was sent to the pigs' barn, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Siam is known for especially terrible tortures. The man was fed cut pieces of meat and strips of skin from him. Women in the East could also be subject to torture. Those who lived in a harem and were accused of disobedience had several neat cuts made on their bodies, into which molten lead was poured.

The worst torture in the world

There are many known tortures, each of which could be called the most terrible in the world. And yet, among the tortures of all times, the most cruel is considered to be the one that the Persian queen Parysatis used on the murderer of her beloved son Cyrus the Younger. The name of this killer is Mithridates. His body was sandwiched between two wooden troughs, leaving only his head and legs outside.

The killer's head was smeared with honey and milk, which attracted the attention of the midges. Mithridates was force-fed, because of this he constantly walked under himself. Soon worms appeared in the sewage and began to eat the man alive. Mithridates died for eighteen whole days, and the queen came every day, wanting to enjoy his torment.

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What do you think was the most terrible thing during the Middle Ages? Lack of toothpaste, good soap or shampoo? The fact that “medieval discos” were held to the tedious music of mandolins? Or maybe the fact that medicine did not yet know vaccinations and antibiotics? Or endless wars? Yes, our ancestors didn't go to movie theaters or send emails to each other. But they were also inventors.

And the worst thing they invented was instruments for torture, instruments with the help of which the system of Christian justice was created - the Inquisition. And for those who lived in the Middle Ages, Iron Maiden is not the name of a heavy metal band, but one of the most disgusting gadgets of that time. For those who are particularly nervous and sensitive, please do not look under the cat.

The term "Inquisition" comes from the Latin. Inquisitio, meaning "interrogation, inquiry." The term was widespread in the legal sphere even before the emergence of medieval church institutions with this name, and meant clarifying the circumstances of a case by investigation, usually through interrogation, often with the use of force. And only over time, the Inquisition began to be understood as spiritual trials of anti-Christian heresies.

The torture of the Inquisition had hundreds of varieties. At the same time, the interrogations were conducted in secret, and the execution in the squares was visually familiar to contemporaries, so the artists of those times sketched it with accuracy. But the tortures of the Inquisition were depicted based on the words of others, often relying on imagination. Some medieval instruments of torture have survived to this day, but most often even museum exhibits have been restored according to descriptions. Their variations are amazing. Here are twenty instruments of torture from the Middle Ages.

20. Spiked shoes

These are iron shoes with a sharp spike under the heel. The tenon could be unscrewed using a screw. With the spike unscrewed, the victim of torture had to stand on the toes of his foot as long as he could. Stand on your toes and check how long you can stretch.

Central Europe is the main place of its popularity. The sinner was stripped naked and placed on a chair covered with thorns. It was impossible to move - otherwise not only puncture wounds, but also ruptures would appear on the body. If this was not enough for the inquisitors, they took thorns or tongs in their hands and tore the victim’s limbs. Of course, you won’t have “reverse stilettos” under your heels, so the sinners endured much longer. But when their strength was exhausted, the body itself relied on the heel. Then everything is clear - pain and blood.

19. Heretic's Fork

Four spikes - two digging into the chin, two into the sternum - did not allow the victim to make any head movements, including lowering his head lower.

18. Witch bath chair

The sinner was tied to a chair suspended from a long pole and lowered under water for a while, then allowed to take a breath of air, and again - under water. A popular time of year for such torture is late autumn or even winter. A hole was made in the ice, and after some time the victim not only suffocated under the water without air, but also became covered with a crust of ice in such coveted air. Sometimes the torture lasted for days.

17. Spanish boot

This is a fastening on the leg with a metal plate, which, with each question and subsequent refusal to answer it, as required, was tightened more and more in order to break the bones of the person’s legs. To enhance the effect, sometimes an inquisitor was involved in the torture, who hit the fastening with a hammer. Often after such torture, all the bones of the victim below the knee were crushed, and the wounded skin looked like a bag for these bones.

16. Water torture

This method was "seen" by inquisitors in the east. The sinner was tied with barbed wire or strong ropes to a special wooden device like a table with a very raised middle - so that the sinner's stomach would stick out as far as possible. His mouth was stuffed with rags or straw so that it would not close, and a tube was inserted into his mouth, through which an incredible amount of water was poured into the victim. If the victim did not interrupt this torture in order to confess to something or the purpose of the torture was clear death, at the end of the ordeal the victim was removed from the table, laid on the ground, and the executioner jumped on her bloated stomach. The ending is clear and disgusting.

15. Iron hook (cat's claw)

It is clear that it was not used to scratch your back. The victim's flesh was torn - slowly, painfully, to the point that not only pieces of her body, but also ribs were torn out with the same hooks.

14. Rack

The same rack. There were two main options: vertical, when the victim was suspended from the ceiling, turning out the joints and hanging all the large weights from her feet, and horizontal, when the sinner’s body was fixed on a rack and stretched by a special mechanism until her muscles and joints were torn .

13. Quartering by horses

The victim was tied to four horses - by the arms and legs. Then the animals were allowed to gallop. There were no options - only death.

12. Pear

This device was inserted into the openings of the body - it is clear that not into the mouth or ears - and opened so as to cause unimaginable pain to the victim, tearing these openings.

11. Cleansing the soul

In many Catholic countries, the clergy believed that the soul of a sinner could still be cleansed. For these purposes, they had to use either pouring boiling water into the sinner’s throat, or throwing hot coals there. You understand that in caring for the soul there was no room for caring for the body.

10. Hanging cage

It assumed two extreme methods of exploitation. In cold weather, like a witch's bathing chair, the sinner in this cage, suspended from a long pole, was lowered under the water and taken out of it, causing him to freeze and suffocate.

And in the heat, the sinner hung in it in the sun for as many days as he could endure without a drop of water to drink.

9. Skull press

How a sinner could somehow repent of something when first his teeth clenched and crumbled, then his jaw crumbled, followed by the bones of his skull - until the brain poured out of his ears - I don’t understand. Even more baffling to my awareness is that some countries still use a version of this crusher as an interrogation tool.

8. Bonfire

This was the main way to eradicate witch influence on other people's sinless souls. The burnt soul excluded any possibility of confusing or staining the sinless soul. What doubts can there be?

7. Vigil or Judas' Cradle

The know-how belongs to Hippolyte Marsili. At one time, this instrument of torture was considered loyal - it did not break bones or tear ligaments. First, the sinner was lifted on a rope, and then sat on the Cradle, and the top of the triangle was inserted into the same holes as the Pear. It hurt to such an extent that the sinner lost consciousness. He was lifted, “pumped out” and put back on the Cradle. I don’t think that in moments of enlightenment the sinners thanked Hippolytus for his invention.

6. Cradle

Cousin of the Judas Cradle. I don't think the picture leaves much room for imagination as to how this instrument of torture was used. Also quite disgusting.

5. Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden. Maid of Nuremberg.

This is not “three girls under the window.” This is a huge sarcophagus in the form of an open, empty female figure, inside of which numerous blades and sharp spikes are reinforced. They are located in such a way that the vital organs of the victim imprisoned in the sarcophagus are not affected, so the agony of the person sentenced to execution was long and painful. The “Virgin” was first used in 1515. The condemned man died for three days.

4. Interrogation chair

Central Europe is the main place of its popularity. The sinner was stripped naked and placed on a chair covered with thorns. It was impossible to move - otherwise not only puncture wounds, but also ruptures would appear on the body. If this was not enough for the inquisitors, they took thorns or tongs in their hands and tore the victim’s limbs.

3. Number

In the east they came up with this terrible execution. The fact is that a person who was skillfully impaled - its end should have stuck out from the victim's throat (and not as depicted in this picture) could live for several more days - suffer physically and mentally, since this execution was public.

2. Saw

The executioners and inquisitors of those years showed remarkable ingenuity in their work. They knew better than us why a person experiences pain, and they knew that in an unconscious state he would not feel pain. And what kind of execution in the Middle Ages would be without sadism? A person could encounter ordinary death everywhere; this was not uncommon. And an unusual and very painful death is sawing. The victim was hung upside down so that the blood would not stop supplying oxygen to the head, and the person would experience the full horror of pain. It happened that he lived to the moment when they slowly, slowly managed to saw his body down to the diaphragm.

1. Wheeling

If you have read this far, I present to you one of the most disgusting methods of execution that exists.

A person sentenced to be wheeled was broken with an iron crowbar or wheel, then all the large bones of the body were broken, then he was tied to a large wheel, and the wheel was placed on a pole. The condemned person found himself face up, looking at the sky, and died this way from shock and dehydration, often for quite a long time. The suffering of the dying man was aggravated by the birds pecking at him. Sometimes, instead of a wheel, they simply used a wooden frame or a cross made of logs.

And, although it is believed that instruments of torture were more often demonstrated than used, nevertheless, it is not for nothing that the UN has proclaimed June 26 as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture since 1997.

Many unfortunate people throughout the history of mankind have experienced all the horrors of torture, but the worst thing is not that these terrible methods of torturing people existed. What’s worse is how sophisticated the authors of torture were, wanting to inflict maximum torture on their victims.

1. Sitting in the bathtub

The convict was seated in a tub, from which only his head protruded. Afterwards, the executioner smeared the unfortunate man’s face with milk and honey so that flies would fly to him. The victim was also given food regularly. Ultimately, the man essentially bathed in his own excrement and rotted alive, while his flesh was eaten by flies and worms.

2. Copper bull

The Copper Bull, also known as the Sicilian Bull, was designed by the ancient Greeks. It is a copper structure, hollow inside, and with a door on one side. Through the latter, a person was placed inside the bull. After the doors were closed, a fire was lit under the structure. The bull became white-hot, the victim screamed in a voice that was not his own, and these screams resembled a bull’s roar.

This was Vlad the Impaler's favorite method of torture. The stick was sharpened and driven into the ground, and the condemned man was placed on the tip. Under the weight of its own weight, the victim gradually slid down the stake and pierced his internal organs. Death did not occur immediately when impaled. Some died for three days. And this gave Vlad special pleasure. Once he executed 20 thousand people and calmly watched their torment while enjoying his meal.

4. Heretic's Fork

The torture device consists of a metal bar with forks at the ends. One end was placed under the chin, and the other on the collarbone. The fork was attached to the neck with a strap. The victims were not supposed to fall asleep. As soon as they were eaten, the head dropped, and the fork pierced the throat and chest.

A very humiliating and painful form of torture. A collar made of metal and wood was placed around the victim's neck. After this, for several days the person could not lie down, lower his head, or eat. Otherwise, sharp thorns would pierce his throat.

This is one of the most famous tortures and is still practiced in some countries to this day. It involves tying or nailing a person’s limbs to a wooden cross. After this, the unfortunate person is left hanging in the open air without food or water, almost naked. Death as a result of crucifixion does not occur quickly. It takes several agonizing days to become exhausted.

The instrument of torture is a pyramid on high legs. The convict was placed with his crotch on the point and tied by his limbs. The man sank deeper and deeper into the cone under the weight of his own weight. At night he was removed from the pyramid and left in limbo to bleed, and the next morning the torture continued. Death occurred within a few days, and was often caused by infection - no one had ever washed the tip of the cone.

8. Sprinkler

As a rule, molten lead, boiling water, resin or hot oil were poured inside the weapon. Afterwards, the mace was attached in such a way that its contents would drip onto the victim’s stomach or eyes.

A cabinet with a hinged front wall and a huge number of spikes on the lid. A person was placed inside the maiden, and when the lid was closed, he practically could not move - every movement brought hellish pain.

10. Torture Coffin

A favorite method of torture during the Middle Ages. It consisted in the fact that the victim was placed inside a cage the size of a human body. Overweight people were deliberately placed in smaller cells. The closed “coffin” was hung from a tree and left outside to be devoured by birds and animals.

There are many different types of this torture device, but the principle of operation of all of them is the same. The vice is intended for crushing fingers and toes, knees, and elbows. There is even a vice for the skull. During the Middle Ages, this method of torture was very popular.

12. Torture with rope

Rope is the simplest, but multifunctional instrument of torture. People have found many uses for it. The rope was used on gallows. The victims were tied to trees with ropes and left to be torn to pieces by wild animals. The rope was also used to attach the limbs of the unfortunate to the horses, which were subsequently allowed to run in different directions, and the person was torn to pieces.

13. Pear of suffering

Another terrible instrument of torture was a pear with petals that opened when the screw was tightened. The pear was inserted into the mouth or anus of the victim (for girls, often into the vagina) and the screw was tightened gradually, thereby tearing the internal organs. The victim died a long, painful death.

This is one of the most painful and terrible tortures in the Middle Ages. The weapon is a frame with ropes. The victim was tied and placed on a platform. After this, the executioner began to turn the handle, which pulled out the ropes tied to the victim’s limbs. As a result, bones broke, muscles tore, joints popped out. But even after this, the executioners continued to stretch the ropes until the victim’s limbs were torn from the body.

Huge scissors easily cut out people's tongues. The mouth was opened forcibly for the “procedure” using special stretchers.

For some, being in the same room with rats is already torture. The essence of this method is that a cage with rodents without one wall is placed on the victim’s body. After attaching the structure, it began to be heated from the other side, and the rats, trying to escape from the heat, gnawed their way to freedom through the person.

17. Torture chair

Or the Judas chair. There are from 500 to 1500 spines on its surface. The victim is held in a chair using rigid straps. Sometimes a heat source was placed under the chair. The torture chair was often used for intimidation, and it caused many to “split.”

18. Cement boots

The method was invented by the American mafia. When mafiosi executed their enemies, they poured cement into their feet. As soon as the latter hardened, the person was thrown into the river.

19. Bib tongs

Women were subjected to the same torture methods as men. But this weapon was created specifically for them. The tongs pierced the flesh and were pulled out or slowly pulled out. Death occurred as a result of severe blood loss.

20. Crocodile scissors

They were used to execute those who rebelled against the king and tried to kill the monarch. Before crushing and cutting off the victim's testicles, the scissors were heated.

A popular torture during the French Revolution. The victims are a man and a woman. They were stripped naked, tied up and left to drown in this form.

Catherine's Wheel allowed the victim to be killed excruciatingly slowly. The unfortunate man was tied to the weapon and began to slowly rotate. At this moment, the executioner struck the limbs with a hammer. When all the bones were broken, the still living victim with the wheel was lifted onto a high pole, where birds could feed on his flesh.

23. Spanish donkey

The naked victim was placed astride a structure made of wooden planks with a blade on top. Weights are tied to the martyr's limbs. The weight increases until the blade cuts through the flesh.

24. Sawing

The victim was hung upside down so that the blood would flow to the head and she would remain conscious longer. After this, the unfortunate man began to be sawed in half from the crotch. Many were cut only to the stomach in order to intensify the torment and prolong the agony.

25. Suspended, recessed, dismembered

For high treason in England during the Middle Ages, a person was hanged, drowned and quartered in public. The victim was placed in an execution frame. After this, the accused was strangled until he was half to death, castrated and his genitals were burned in front of his own eyes, and at the end they were quartered and his head was cut off.