Medieval Torturing Devices
Rat Torture
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-Rat torture was one of the torturing devices that Europe had used during the middle ages, it was also very inexpensive
-The victim was restrained on a flat, horizontal surface
-The rat was then placed on the victim's stomach, inside a cage-like structure
-Then hot coals were placed on top of the rat's cage, resulting in heating the cage
-The rat has no where to go, so the rat digs into the victims stomach, creates a hole so the rat has somewhere to go
-Worst of all, the victim is still alive while the rat is digging in your intestines and stomach
-The procedure takes 2-8 hours
Coffin Torture
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-The victim was kept in a "coffin" that held them for a certain amount of time depending on their crime
-If you committed a serious crime like blasphemy, your time was death, and you were left starving and animals eating your flesh
-Torturers were well-known for forcing over weight victims into the device or making the "coffin" slightly larger so the victim is even more uncomfortable
-The victim was kept in the "coffin" in the public, usually this torture led to death because villagers liked to mock and throw things like rocks at the victim, usually resulting in killing them
-If you committed a serious crime like blasphemy, your time was death, and you were left starving and animals eating your flesh
-Torturers were well-known for forcing over weight victims into the device or making the "coffin" slightly larger so the victim is even more uncomfortable
-The victim was kept in the "coffin" in the public, usually this torture led to death because villagers liked to mock and throw things like rocks at the victim, usually resulting in killing them
The Iron Maiden
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-The Maiden was used to torture criminals
-The Maiden stands 7ft tall
-The victim was tied down in the Maiden and one of the two doors were shut
-The spikes are scientifically placed so that is does not peice any vital organs and does not kill the victim as fast
-When both doors were closed, the victim's screams could not be heard from the outside
-The victim couldn't hear or see anything either, so it increased phycological pain
-The torture could take hours, sometimes even days for death to occur
-The Maiden stands 7ft tall
-The victim was tied down in the Maiden and one of the two doors were shut
-The spikes are scientifically placed so that is does not peice any vital organs and does not kill the victim as fast
-When both doors were closed, the victim's screams could not be heard from the outside
-The victim couldn't hear or see anything either, so it increased phycological pain
-The torture could take hours, sometimes even days for death to occur
The Brank
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-It wa used to humiliate women who "by brawling and wrangling amongst her neighbours breaks the public peace, increases discord and becomes a public nuisance to the neighborhood."
-In other words, it is for women who gossip, lie, and say other nasty things about someone else with no other reason than to offend
-It was a metal cage or mask that enclosed the head, often with ridicul adornments to humiliate the victim in public
-Some included spikes for the women when she spoke so that it could rip up her flesh
-Time lengths of this punishment could range from days to months or to die with the brank
-If she ever tried to remove the brank, she would be tortured in another way
-In other words, it is for women who gossip, lie, and say other nasty things about someone else with no other reason than to offend
-It was a metal cage or mask that enclosed the head, often with ridicul adornments to humiliate the victim in public
-Some included spikes for the women when she spoke so that it could rip up her flesh
-Time lengths of this punishment could range from days to months or to die with the brank
-If she ever tried to remove the brank, she would be tortured in another way