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MEDIEVIL TORTURE

BEHIND THE WALLS, BENEATH THE STAIRS UNRAVELLING THE SECRETS IT HIDES

WHATEVER THE IMPRESSION FOR EVERTHING THERE IS ALWAYS TWO SIDES

DONT BE FOOLED BY WHAT YOU SEE, OR GET LOST IN THE SENTIMENTALITY

MEDIEVIL ENGLAND AND ALL ITS GORY SECRETS LAID OUT FOR ALL TO SEE

THE DARKEST OF TIMES, WHERE NOTHING WAS TOO HORRIBLE TO EXTRACT THE TRUTH

REGARDLESS OF THE CRIME OR MANNER OF YOUR CONVICTION, WHATEVER THE PROOF

WITH TORTURES RANGING FROM THE BLOOD THIRSTY TO THE MACARBE AND EVEN SADISTIC

YOUR CHANCES OF HAVING A FAIR TRIAL WERE, LET’S FACE IT NOT VERY REALISTIC

WATER TORTURE, WITH PINCHED NOSE FORCED TO DRINK NINE PINTS OR MORE IF THE CRIME WAS WORSE

THE RACK OF WOODEN CONTSRUCTION RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE FROM WHICH THERE WAS NO ESCAPE

CHAINED BOTH ENDS, WITH INCREASED TENSION, EXCRUCIATING PAIN FACED WITH APPREHENTION

LIMBS DISLOCATED, OR FROM THIER SOCKETS TORN, SCENES TOO GRUESOME TO MENTION

THE SCAVENGERS DAUGHTER BY LEONARD SKEVINGTON A LIEUTENANT WHEN HENRY VIII WAS IN POWER

CONSISTING OF A SINGLE IRON BAR, CONNECTING IRON SHACKLES, USED FOR THOSE HELD IN THE TOWER CLOSING ROUND THE VICTIMS HANDS, FEET, AND THE NECK, HEAD BETWEEN KNEES SLOWLY CRUSHING

SLOWLY COMPRESSING THE BODY, FORCING BLOOD FROM THE NOSE AND EARS TO BEGIN RUSHING

THE BRANK OR SCOLDS BRIDLE DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR WOMEN AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT

INFLICTING HUMILIATION AND DISCOMFORT RATHER THAN PAIN, SO INCREASING THE VICTIMS TORMENT

METAL MASK ENCASING THE FACE, IRON CURB, STUDDED, RESTING ON THE TONGUE, UNABLE TO TALK

INCREASING THEIR HUMILIATION, PEOPLE COMMENTING AND JEERING, ALONG THE STREETS AS THEY WALK

THE DUCKING STOOL STRICTLY FOR WOMEN WHO WERE GUILTY OF PROSTITUTION OR WITCHCRAFT

SEEN AS A FOOLPROOF WAY OF ESTABLISHING IF A SUSPECT WAS A WITCH OR NOT, TRULY DAFT

DROWNING MEANT THEY WERE INNOCENT, SURVIVAL MEANT IN LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL, DEATH CERTAIN

MEN ACCUSSED OF WITCHCRAFT ALSO FACED THE SAME FATE, NO ENCORE AFTER THE FINAL CURTAIN

BOOT TORTURES EITHER WITH CRUSHING METAL PLATES, OR SHARP SPIKES, ROASTING WITH OIL ASWELL

USE OF BRODEQUINS AROUND THE LEGS CAUSING THE BONES TO BURST, INSUFFERABLE, AGONISING HELL

THUMBSCREWS TO CRUSH WHATEVER WAS INSERTED, THUMBS, FINGERS, TOES, WHAT ELSE, WHO KNOWS

USEFUL TO INTERROGATORS AS A PORTABLE MEANS OF TORTURE, INEVITABLE CONFESSION FLOWS

BURNING AT THE STAKE BOUND WITH ROPES AND CHAINS THE CONDEMNED PERSON TO THE STAKE TIED

SURROUNDED BY FAGGOTS, AND STRAW UNTIL THEY WERE ENTIRELY COVERED TRAPPED INSIDE

DRESSED IN A SHIRT, SMEARED WITH SULPHUR, FIRED ON ALL SIDES AT ONCE, THIER FATE SECURED

IF FORTUNATE THE CONDEMNED PERSON WAS STRANGLED BEFORE BEING TIED, LESS PAINFUL DEATH ASSURED

DEATH BY BRANDING, OR THE WHEEL, WERE PROBABLY 2 OF THE LESSER TORTURES TO BE HANDED OUT

BUT THIS ONE WAS PROBABLY THE MOST EVIL AND SADISTIC OF TORTURES WITHOUT DOUBT

TO BE HUNG DRAWN AND QUATERED, WHERE AFTER SEVERAL ACCESSORY TORTURES VICTIMS WOULD BE

LEGS, ARMS, TIED TO BARS, ROPED TO HORSES AND PULLED IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS QUITE VIOLENTLY

TO THINK THAT WOULD BE THE END, WOULD BE A MISTAKE FOR MORE SUFFERING WOULD BE ENDURED

LASTING FOR SEVERAL HOURS, LIMBS COLLECTED, AND PLACED NEAR A TRUNK SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE

AS A WHOLE BURNED, OR HUNG TO THE GIBBET, WITH LIMBS DISPLAYED ON THE GATES OF THE TOWN

OR SENT TO FOUR PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN THE EXTREMITIES OF THE KINGDOM, BEFORE DEATH WAS ASSURED

THE INSCRIPTIONS PLACED BENEATH WOULD STATE THE REASON FOR SUCH TORTURE TO BE INCURED

SO TO HANGING, PROBABLY THE ONE TORTURE THAT AUTOMATICALLY SPRINGS TO MIND INSTANTLY

THE CONDEMNED PARADED BY HORSE DRAWN CART AROUND THE PLACE HIS/HER DEATH WOULD BE

WITH NOOSE ROUND THE NECK, FROM WHICH SUSPENDED, THUS STRANGLED UNTIL LIFE WAS ENDED

IN SOME LESSER CASES THOUGH A JUDGE COULD DECIDE THAT THERE WOULD BE ANTHER WAY TO GO

BY SUSPENDING THE VICTIM WITH ROPES UNDER ARMS, FOR SEVERAL HOURS, TO MIMIC THE EFFECT

HOWEVER THE OUTCOME OF THIS WASN’T ALWAYS THE OUTCOME THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT

FOR THE CONDEMNED COULD STILL DIE FROM THE WEIGHT OF HIS/HER BODY TIGHTENING THE ROPE

AROUND THE CHEST SQUEEZING THE LAST BREATH OF LIFE, UNTIL THE BODY WAS UNABLE TO COPE

MIDDLE AGES TORTURE WAS CONDEMNED IN 866 AS CONTRARY TO HUMAN LAW AS WELL AS DEVINE

AS CONFESSIONS SHOULD BE VOLUNTARY, NEVER FORCED AS INNOCENCE AND GUILT IS A FINE LINE

FEARING THAT THE INNOCENT COULD SUFFER, OR EVEN CONFESS TO A CRIME THEY DIDNT COMMIT

TORTURING CONTINUED AND WAS FREELY ACCEPTED, BEFORE FINALLY IN 1640 WE SAW THE END OF IT

TRULY IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME WHEN BEING GOOD SHOULD BE THE ORDER OF THE DAY, THIS WAS IT

SADLY LIFE IS NEVER THIS SIMPLE AND EVENTS CAN HAPPEN BEYOND OUR CONTROL, OUR HUMAN FORFEIT

THOUGH TODAY BEHIND A SCREEN OF HUMANITY THE WORLD SHOWS A FACE OF COMPASSION AND CARE

BUT IN REALITY IF WE ARE HONEST, WE KNOW THAT THESE SENTIMENTS NOT EVERYONE WILL SHARE.