10 of the most horrific torture devices in the Middle Ages

AMAZING FACTS

Torture - an ancient practice that is still relevant today. In the Middle Ages torture were used as punishment during interrogations, etc.

Of course, one can assume that today we are more humane, but while some of the following devices led to the death in the world today there are ways of causing pain that can not be compared with those used in the Middle Ages.

10. "The Crusher" head

The head was placed under the upper part and chin on the bottom toolbar.Upper screw this terrible device turns slowly and heavily compressed skull.The first teeth start to crumble, then dropped his eyes (some varieties of this device contained more special containers for the eyes). Finally, came a skull fracture. Before the start of this torture executioner usually firmly pinched the victim's head and occasionally with great force knocked on her metal seals so that every stroke made to feel pain throughout the body.

9. Cat's Paw

Cat's Paw often came with a handle, and the size and appearance of forced to think that it is a continuation of the hands of the torturers. The weapon used for the destruction of the integrity of any portion of the body, including bone.

8. The knee splitter

This device was very popular at the time of the Inquisition, with the help of a person deprived of his knees. Consisting of two wooden blocks with spikes is arranged so that the leg is bent at the knee of the victim was between the two parts. Then we begin to tighten the two large screws that hold the blocks, causing part of the converged and working on her lap. Among other things, the device used for the damage and other body parts.

7. Vices

It is an instrument of torture was invented during the reign of Henry VIII by Sir William Skevingtonom (William Skevington), Lieutenant of the Tower. Man flexed placed in a metal circle, and vise squeezing as long as nose and ears are not started to bleed. This weapon was designed as a complement to the existing, which is concentrated on stretching the body, rather than compression.

6. The chair of Judah

This procedure has remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.Sacrifice is located on the uppermost point of the device so that its whole weight is either the last vertebra, either on different parts of the genitals. At the discretion of the executioner pressure on this point varied from zero to a person's weight. The victim could swing or "drop" to the point. This device is used in many countries, including Germany, France and Italy, where it was called "the cradle of Judah." Currently, an instrument used in some countries in Latin America with some "add-ons" in the form of electrical rings and others.

5. The Spanish donkey

The device consisted of sawn timber in the form of a triangle is attached to the two crossbars. The naked victim was placed in the sharps timber as if she is riding on a donkey, with her feet became attached to the heavy weight, the harder it was, the greater was the pressure on the perineum.

4. Tongs

This tool is used for oral, rectal and vaginal torture. It was inserted into the mouth, rectum or vagina of the victim, and it reveals its bolts, violating the integrity of the organs. As a result, at least the person remained disfigured, however, nearly always by means of the device of people were killed, as the sharp end of the screw tearing throat, intestines or cervix. This kind of torture is often applied to the heretical preachers, as well as supporters of the unorthodox tendencies rectal tongs expected passive male homosexuals, and vaginal forceps - women convicted of sexual intercourse with Satan or the like.

3. Sprinkler bucket

It was a device that looked like a ladle with a long handle. The top half of the sphere is removed, and the lower portion is filled with molten metal, boiling oil, water, resin or tar. After this, the perforated top half again takes its place, and then poured the contents on a pre-bound victim.

2. "Breast claws"

This device is often used in hot form to make a special mark on the mother's breast - singles. In addition, it was used to convict of heresy, blasphemy, adultery, self-induced abortion, white magic, and any other crime are women.In this case, they can be used in cold, tearing the woman's breast.

1. Crocodile shears

Lever shears were the instruments of torture used in the late medieval Europe and is usually "Redundant" regicide, or rather those who tried to kill the governor. Scissors have been made of iron, and worked on the concept of ticks, however, instead of the conventional blades, they are semi-cylindrical blades which in the closed state form a long and narrow "pipe".

Also, scissors used in the torture of prisoners. They are heated red hot, and then applied to the erect penis, while it either cut or provoked strong arterial bleeding.