10 Gruesome Medieval Torture Devices. (No gore. A lot of cringing.) - General

Not torture so much as a way of executing someone slowly, being flayed alive has to be the worst thing I have ever had described to me. In Ken Follett's "World Without End", there's a scene in which a cathedral thief is flayed alive and his skin is tanned and hung on the treasury door as a warning to anyone who might rob the church.

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Isn't this also a way to bring atheists to the church? I mean if they weren't afraid of the afterlife, a regular execution wouldn't normally do.

[QUOTE=Wingz;42701523]I'm confused about the heretic fork. How do you die of sleep deprivation?[/QUOTE] that is impossible

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42701051]No Scaphism? The victim of Scaphism was fed copious amounts of milk and honey, strapped & completely immobilized on a boat, and sent to the middle of a body of water such as a lake. The milk & honey led to horrible diarrhea, which filled the boat and attracted insects to slowly eat the body[/QUOTE] Ah, were it Romans or the Spartans? I recall that was something antique, but this is Medieval we're talking about, son.

[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;42703655]Ah, were it Romans or the Spartans? I recall that was something antique, but this is Medieval we're talking about, son.[/QUOTE] Persian, I believe. I just found it more cringeworthy than some.

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42703677]Persian, I believe. I just found it more cringeworthy than some.[/QUOTE] Well, now that you think about cringeworthy, I think the worst was getting dig up into the ground till your neck level, then pour asphalt/molten lead (?) on you while you fry alive then solidify.

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42701051]No Scaphism? The victim of Scaphism was fed copious amounts of milk and honey, strapped & completely immobilized on a boat, and sent to the middle of a body of water such as a lake. The milk & honey led to horrible diarrhea, which filled the boat and attracted insects to slowly eat the body[/QUOTE] You forgot that there would be someone there to feed them food and water against their will, making sure that their death would be by the insects and not through dehydration or starvation.

I think for anybody to be a torturer, they'd have to be either totally insane, or simply delusion themselves with the idea that the people they torture aren't human. That's something found almost invariably throughout all of humanity; to be able to treat a person like an animal, we have to consider them less than human- the Untermenschen, the heretics, the pagans, the terrorists. I don't think a human being could cope with the idea that they are mutilating and destroying the body of another living, thinking person. I can't even imagine what the PTSD of torturers would have been like, though.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42700898]The Rat cage is what really disturbed me.[/QUOTE] I swear I saw that done but with a bucket instead in one of the fast and the furious movies.

You also have to consider that them medieval folk didn't give a fuck. But I'm speaking out of my ass on that one. As I'm not from the medieval ages so I wouldn't know.

[QUOTE=Laferio;42703927]You also have to consider that them medieval folk didn't give a fuck. But I'm speaking out of my ass on that one. As I'm not from the medieval ages so I wouldn't know.[/QUOTE] Yeah no, your common "medieval" citizen was not some heartless dick head who wouldn't give a fuck if their neighbor got a razor blade shoved up her vagina. Your common person living during what a lot of people call "The Dark ages" was not so much different than a dude living in the renaissance or even us for that matter. They weren't a hell of a lot dirtier like we think, yes they did drink water, and no they weren't all religious bigots. Most of these horrible torture devices were devised by those or those working for people with a hard on for power.

[QUOTE=-Jansse-;42701209]Still think nothing quite beats saw torture. [img]http://www.medievality.com/images/torture/saw.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.medievality.com/torture.html[/url][/QUOTE] that's horrible but that image always cracks me the fuck up. just look at the dude on the right [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9Nxf5jK.png[/IMG] "doop de doo just sawin a dude in half not a big deal, wonder what i should get from the grocery store on the way home"

[QUOTE=99$-Plate;42702118]#1 reminds me of Vlad the Impaler.[/QUOTE] He was a sadist, but also a hero

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Empalement.jpg/413px-Empalement.jpg[/img] pain.jpg

The Pear of Anguish doesn't actually have blades. It just slowly separates and stretches the affected orifice until it breaks. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear_of_anguish[/url]

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42701051]No Scaphism? The victim of Scaphism was fed copious amounts of milk and honey, strapped & completely immobilized on a boat, and sent to the middle of a body of water such as a lake. The milk & honey led to horrible diarrhea, which filled the boat and attracted insects to slowly eat the body[/QUOTE] scaphism was used commonly in the persian empire. these are medieval torture methods. and actually these aren't really "medieval" torture methods either. most of these were popular during the late middle ages/renaissance. most of the torture and inquisition shit we call "dark age" or "medieval" is actually late middle ages or early modern age. the dark ages could be shit, but it was far less extreme on the torture shit. [editline]30th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Winters;42704158]Yeah no, your common "medieval" citizen was not some heartless dick head who wouldn't give a fuck if their neighbor got a razor blade shoved up her vagina. Your common person living during what a lot of people call "The Dark ages" was not so much different than a dude living in the renaissance or even us for that matter. They weren't a hell of a lot dirtier like we think, yes they did drink water, and no they weren't all religious bigots. Most of these horrible torture devices were devised by those or those working for people with a hard on for power.[/QUOTE] there is some debate among historians whether the term "renaissance" was a real thing because for 99% of the population nothing changed. even for nobility and the church, using roman learning wasn't a new concept.

[QUOTE=yawmwen;42704986]there is some debate among historians whether the term "renaissance" was a real thing because for 99% of the population nothing changed. even for nobility and the church, using roman learning wasn't a new concept.[/QUOTE] Yeah actually I hate the term renaissance. It's a period of history so romanticized by those who lived in it that we actually started to buy that things were so fucking great back then.

[QUOTE=Winters;42705073]Yeah actually I hate the term renaissance. It's a period of history so romanticized by those who lived in it that we actually started to buy that things were so fucking great back then.[/QUOTE] put into perspective iirc late roman life expectency was 27 years, after the fall of rome and the great migration period dark age life expectancy was 30 years, then i believe in the early modern era the life expectancy fell below late roman life expectancy. most of this was due to warfare. stronger empires and states lead to larger wars that the peasantry had to suffer through. idk about you but i wouldn't trade the relative peace of the dark ages for the nobility's literature and art in the "renaissance".

A lot of these torture methods came from the Spanish Inquisition as they would torture Jews, Muslims, Homosexuals and women. Most of these devices also aimed at the sexual body parts. Like the breast ripper which was a tool that looked like oversized pliers that would grab onto a woman's breast. The torturer would pul on the tool and rip the breast off the woman. horrendous stuff.

[QUOTE=Macneil_bmx;42703922]I swear I saw that done but with a bucket instead in one of the fast and the furious movies.[/QUOTE] they did it on game of thrones with a ferret instead of a rat i think [editline]31st October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Water-Marine;42701051]No Scaphism? The victim of Scaphism was fed copious amounts of milk and honey, strapped & completely immobilized on a boat, and sent to the middle of a body of water such as a lake. The milk & honey led to horrible diarrhea, which filled the boat and attracted insects to slowly eat the body[/QUOTE] this reminds me of an assyrian torture/execution method i read about once, and it was something like the person is given a non-mortal wound, then put inside a dead cow/ox/whatever and left to die of like, extreme infection or something [editline]31st October 2013[/editline] the cow gets sewn up so they can't get out or whatever

Oh, nothing compares to death by a thousand cuts by the damn chinese [quote] In this form of execution, the condemned person was killed by using a knife to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time. The term língchí derives from a classical description of ascending a mountain slowly. Lingchi was reserved for crimes viewed as especially severe, such as treason and killing one's parents. The process involved tying the person to be executed to a wooden frame, usually in a public place. The flesh was then cut from the body in multiple slices in a process that was not specified in detail in Chinese law and therefore most likely varied. In later times, opium was sometimes administered either as an act of mercy or as a way of preventing fainting. The punishment worked on three levels: as a form of public humiliation, as a slow and lingering death, and as a punishment after death.[/quote] Obviously NSFW: [url]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RUVqKG2UaG4/T-ZF-9cw0JI/AAAAAAAAAtI/A11N2XtsmhI/s1600/thousandcuts.jpg[/url] [editline]31st October 2013[/editline] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Martyrerp_2.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Laferio;42703927]You also have to consider that them medieval folk didn't give a fuck. [/QUOTE] They didn't value the individual that much at all but if you were an enemy of the local authority or the church (heretic) you really didn't mean shit.

Wasn't there one that was shaped like a crocodile, superheated, and used to slowly rip off your dick?

[QUOTE=BananaFoam;42707672]Wasn't there one that was shaped like a crocodile, superheated, and used to slowly rip off your dick?[/QUOTE] Yes, but I forget it's name. It's fucking brutal.