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Worse Than Death

08.06.2020 - By Bigfoot for BreakfastPlay

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Convincing others to live their lives the way they are supposed to was hard to do during the medieval period.  For God, King and Country, the people had to be convinced, come clean or simply die if they stepped out of line.  But, how to make an impression while getting this accomplished?  Lets examine the new and super handy tools that the people of the past came up with to get the job done.   https://allthatsinteresting.com/medieval-torture-devices/3 (photos) History Extra: Q&A;: Were ducking stools ever used as punishment for crimes other than witchcraft during the Middle Ages? https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/qa-were-ducking-stools-ever-used-as-punishment-for-crimes-other-than-witchcraft-during-the-middle-ages/ https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/brazen-bull-gruesome-ancient-greek-torture-device-turned-screams-music-021359 TORTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES: https://www.history.co.uk/shows/britains-bloodiest-dynasty/articles/torture-in-the-middle-ages  http://www.medievalwarfare.info/torture.htm#ducking http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-torture-and-punishment/water-torture.htm https://tortureum.com/history-of-torture/ BIOLOGY13 Gory Details About What It's Like To Be Skinned Alive, Laura Allan Updated October 10, 2018 https://www.ranker.com/list/what-being-skinned-alive-feels-like/laura-allan Scold's Bridle - History of the Branks http://www.historyofmasks.net/famous-masks/scolds-bridle/ How the Spanish Inquisition Worked BY SHANNA FREEMAN https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/spanish-inquisition3.htm The Stomach-Turning History Of Rat Torture – Perhaps History’s Worst Way To Die By Wyatt Redd Published November 30, 2017 https://allthatsinteresting.com/rat-torture-method 10 Additional Gruesome Torture Devices VALENTINEDRAGON https://listverse.com/2010/07/18/10-additional-gruesome-torture-devices/   Fl Hirsch, A. E., ed., The Book of Torture and Executions (Toronto: Golden Books, 1944), p. 69ogging https://sites.google.com/a/uconn.edu/pirate-executions-and-methods-of-torture/flogging Cat o'nine tails http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view;=article&id;=532_cat-onine-tails&catid;=145&Itemid;=255.html https://sites.google.com/a/uconn.edu/pirate-executions-and-methods-of-torture/flogging The Curious Case of the Weapon that Didn’t Exist by PAUL B. STURTEVANT on MAY 12, 2016 https://www.publicmedievalist.com/curious-case-weapon-didnt-exist/ Spanish boot http://www.occasionalhell.com/infdevice/detail.php?recordID=Spanish%20Boot Instep borer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instep_borer Hirsch, A. E., ed., The Book of Torture and Executions (Toronto: Golden Books, 1944), p. 69 10 Medieval Torture Devices BY ED GRABIANOWSKI: The Pear of Anguish https://history.howstuffworks.com/10-medieval-torture-devices10.htm The Pear Of Anguish Is The Torture Device From Your Proctologist’s Nightmares By Wyatt Redd Published April 10, 2018 Updated June 8, 2018 https://allthatsinteresting.com/pear-of-anguish The Cradle of Judah http://torturemuseum.net/en/the-cradle-of-judah/ Foot Talk, Sunday, November 25, 2018 A concise history of foot torture: http://foottalk.blogspot.com/2006/02/a-concise-history-of-foot-torture.html The Picquet: http://www.medievality.com/picquet.html https://middleagetorture.weebly.com/the-boot-torture.html Drawing and quartering capital punishment WRITTEN BY The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/drawing-and-quartering http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-torture-and-punishment/hung-drawn-quartered.htm https://www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-torture-devices/torture-rack/ https://www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-torture-devices/catherine-wheel/ The Iron Chair and Jean Calas’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in 1762  by Marc Hartzman: https://www.weirdhistorian.com/iron-chair/ The astronomer who saved his mother from being burned as a witch: the guardian 2015 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/21/the-astronomer-and-the-witch-johannes-kepler-mother-katharina-witch-trial The Dark and Brutal History of The Brazen Bull: Ancient History, October 15, 2016 https://historydaily.org/brazen-bull The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605–1614 (Real Voices, Real History) by Ed Southern (Editor) (Winston-Salem NC: Blair, 2004) Water torture: http://www.lordsandladies.org/water-torture.htm 10 Medieval Torture Devices BY ED GRABIANOWSKi: Thumbscrews https://history.howstuffworks.com/10-medieval-torture-devices2.htm Thumbscrews: Not For Carpentry, But For Torture By William DeLong Published April 20, 2018 Updated August 15, 2019 https://allthatsinteresting.com/thumbscrew

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