Many unfortunate people in the history of mankind have experienced all the horrors of torture, but the worst thing is not that these terrible methods of bullying people existed. Worse is how the authors of tortures excelled, wanting to deliver the maximum torment to their victims.
1. Sitting in the bathroom
The condemned was seated in a tub, from which only his head protruded. After the executioner, he smeared the face of the unfortunate man with milk and honey, so that flies would fly to him. The victim was also regularly given food. In the end, the man actually bathed in his own excrements and rotted alive, and his flesh was eaten by flies and worms.
2. The Copper Bull
Copper, he - Sicilian bull was designed by the ancient Greeks. It is a copper construction, hollow inside, and with a door on one side. Through the latter, a man was put inside the bull. After the doors were closed, a fire was built under the structure. The ox was white-hot, the victim was screaming in a voice that did not sound like a bull roar.
3. Driving on a stake
It was Vlad Tepes's favorite method of torture. The stick was sharpened and drove into the ground, and the convict was placed on the point. Under the weight of her own weight, the victim gradually moved down the cola and pierced her internal organs. Death when landing on the count did not come immediately. Some died for three days. And Vlad was particularly pleased. Once he executed 20 thousand people and quietly watched their agony, enjoying the meal.
4. The fork of the heretic
The device of torture consists of a metal bar with forks on the ends. One end was placed under the chin, and the second - on the collarbone. The fork was attached to the neck by a strap. Victims should not fall asleep. As soon as they were smeared, the head dropped, and the fork stuck into the throat and chest.
5. Collar
Very humiliating and torturous kind of torture. A collar of metal and wood was put on the victim's neck. After that, for several days a person could not lie down, lower his head, eat. Otherwise, his throat pierced sharp thorns.
6. The Crucifixion
This is one of the most famous torture, in some countries it is practiced to this day. It consists in tying or nailing a man's limbs to a wooden cross. After this, the unfortunate is left to hang in the fresh air without food and water, almost naked. Death as a result of the crucifixion does not come soon. The exhaustion takes several painful days.
7. The Cradle of Judah
A tool of torture is a pyramid on high legs. The convict was put in crotch on the point and tied for limbs. The man sagged deeper and deeper under the weight of his own weight. At night he was removed from the pyramid and left in limbo to bleed, and in the morning torture continued. Death came within a few days, and often it was caused by infection - no one ever washed the cone tip.
8. Sprinkler
Inside the guns, as a rule, molten lead, boiling water, resin or hot oil was poured. After the mace was attached in such a way that its contents dripped onto the victim on the stomach or in the eyes.
9. The Iron Maiden
Cabinet with a folding front wall and a huge number of spikes on the lid. Inside the virgin was a man, and when the lid was closed, he could not move - every movement brought in hell's pain.
10. The Tomb of Torture
A favorite method of torture during the Middle Ages. He concluded that the victim was placed inside a cell the size of a human body. Full people deliberately put in smaller cells. The closed "coffin" was hung on a tree and left on the street for eating birds and animals.
11. Vices
There are many different types of this instrument of torture, but the principle of their work is the same. Vices are intended for crushing fingers on the hands and feet, knees, elbows. There is even a vise for the skull. During the Middle Ages, this method of torture was very popular.
12. Torture with a rope
Rope - the simplest, but multifunctional instrument of torture. People found him many uses. The rope was used on the gallows. The victims' ropes were tied to trees and left to be torn to wild beasts. The rope was also used to attach the unfortunate limbs to horses, which were later allowed to run in different directions, and the man was torn to pieces.
13. Pear of misery
Another horrible instrument of torture was a pear with petals opening when the screw was twisting. The pear was inserted into the mouth or anal opening to the victim (the girls were often in the vagina) and screwed the screw gradually, thus rupturing the internal organs. The victim died a long, painful death.
14. Foam
This is one of the most painful and terrible torture in the Middle Ages. The gun is a frame with ropes. The victim was tied up and placed on a platform. After that, the executioner began to twist the handle, which pulled the ropes tied to the limbs of the victim. As a result, bones broke, muscles broke, joints popped out. But even after that, the executioners continued to stretch the ropes until the limbs of the victim were torn from the body.
15. Secateurs
Huge scissors easily cut people tongues. The mouth for the "procedure" was opened by force with the help of special stretch marks.
16. Torturing by rats
For someone to be in the same room with rats - this is torture. The essence of this method is that a cell with a rodent without a single wall is placed on the body of the victim. After attaching the structure, it was started to heat on the other side, and the rats, trying to escape from the heat, gnawed their way to freedom through the person.
17. Torture Stool
Or the armchair of Judas. On its surface is from 500 to 1500 spikes. The victim is held in a chair with the help of hard straps. Sometimes a source of heat was placed under the armchair. The stool was often used for intimidation, and many forced it to "split".
18. Cement shoes
The method is invented by the American mafia. When the Mafiosi executed their enemies, they poured their feet with cement mortar. As soon as the last solidified, the man was thrown into the river.
19. Tongs-"breastplates"
Women were subjected to the same methods of torture as men. But this weapon was created specifically for them. The forceps pierced the flesh and escaped or slowly stretched. Death came as a result of heavy blood loss.
20. Scissors-crocodiles
They were used to execute those who rebelled against the king and tried to kill the monarch. Before she crushed and cut off the testicle, the scissors warmed up.
21. Republican marriage
Popular torture during the French Revolution. The victims are a man with a woman. They were stripped naked, tied up and thrown like this.
22. Wheeling
The wheel of Catherine allowed to kill the victim painfully slow. The unfortunate was tied to an implement and slowly began to rotate. At this moment, the executioner struck the hammer with his limbs. When all the bones were broken, another living victim with a wheel was raised to a high pillar, where his flesh could be fed by birds.
23. The Spanish donkey
The naked victim was placed on top of a wooden board structure with a blade at the top. To the extremities of the martyr are strapped Georgians. Weight increases until the blade does not cut the flesh.
24. Sawing
The victim was hung upside down, so that the blood rushed to the head, and she stayed longer in consciousness. After this, the unfortunate began to saw in two with the perineum. Many were cut only to the abdomen in order to aggravate the torment and prolong the agony.
25. Suspended, drowned, dismembered
For treason in England in the Middle Ages, people were hung, stoked and quartered publicly. The victim was placed in a frame for executions. After this, the accused was choked to death, castrated and burned genitals in his own eyes, and at the end quartered and cut off his head.