Name: 歷史上最可怕的15種酷刑方法 (15 Most Gruesome Torture Methods in History)
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Hello, everyone and welcome [back] to another gruesome episode of top 10 trends today. We're going to be taking a look at 15

gruesome medieval torture techniques starting off at number 15 the Rack

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A classic the rack came about in medieval Britain during the time of the Plantagenet kings that ruled England starting in the

1100 the Rack is a torture device to consist of an oblong

Rectangular and usually wooden frame raised slightly from the ground having a roller at one or both ends at One end

there's a fixed bar - which legs are fastened and at the other is a

positionable bar where the hands were tied the victims feet are fastened to [one] roller and the wrists are chained to another

The torturer would turn the handle causing the ropes to [pull] the victims arms eventually the victims bones were dislocated

with loud cracking noises caused by the snapping of cartilage

Ligaments or even bone if the torturer kept hurting the handles the limbs would eventually be ripped off

This method was mostly used to extract confessions

Not confessing meant that the torturer could stretch more

Sometimes torturers Force their victims to watch other people be tortured with this device to implement

Psychological fear many [knights] from the Knights templar were tortured with the rack the limbs collected from this and other punishments at the time were

emptied by the hundreds number 14 the breast Ripper or the iron spider

Though women were subject to many of the same torture techniques that men were

Some torture techniques were specifically developed for them

This is one of those techniques used to cause major blood loss [the] claws of [the] iron spider or the breast ripper did

Exactly that often heat it up to being red-hot

They [would] be placed on the exposed breasts and the spikes would dig in beneath the skin and it would be jerked off

Causing the breast to be ripped off with it

Horrible number [13] the chair of torture or Judas's chair you're going to see a lot of things on here

That are judas is something or other anything bad usually has to do with judas, I suppose. The chair of torture

Also known as Judas's chair was an intimidating torture device that was added to dungeons at some point in the middle ages

Used up until the 1800s [the] chair was layered with a total of 1500

Covering every surface with tight straps to restrain its victim made of iron it could also contain spaces for heating elements

Beneath the seat it was often used to scare people into giving

Confessions as they watched others being tortured on the device because I can almost guarantee if you stand on this thing [you] were never Gonna

the tongue of Terror [it] is exactly what it sounds [like] what looks like a pair of

Gardening shears is actually known as a tongue terror it would

Effortlessly cut out the victims tongue the mouth is forced open with a mouth opener

Ancient Europeans and the iron tongue Terror would uncomfortably twitch the tongue with its rough grippers

Once a firm hold was had the screw would be tightened until the victims tongue was unable to move once it was tightened the tongue

yeesh number 11 the Chinese [iron] [Maiden] similar to the Iron Maiden of the 19th century

This device was [used] during the Ming Dynasty

[it] stood up words like a coffin but was on a raised platform

With an iron grate on the bottom instead of a piece of wood

Like the Iron Maiden this coffin was made of brass or sometimes even iron it was optional to include the spikes or not

Chinese iron Maiden was usually used to punish those were not loyal to the king and to set an [example] the prisoner would be locked

Into the coffin and then made to stand on the grated bottom then the executioner would pour water on the hot coals

They placed under the platform the mixture of hot coals and cold water would create a cloud of scene that went into the coffin

Steaming the person alive. Of course the iron Maiden

We're more familiar with is just an iron casket with spikes in it that you close on a person

the old-fashioned way [number] 10 the Sicilian [Bull] very similar to the Chinese iron Maiden the

Sicilian Bowl with the Bronze Bull was a large Bull that the victim would be placed inside of

After the person was placed inside of the bull a fire would [be] lit underneath the Bull

Heating it up like a giant crock pot the person inside would begin to broil alive and as they would die

The only oxygen into the bowl was through a horn in the mouth and as you screamed through it

It would make the sound of a tooting bull fun fact the first victim of the Brazen Bull was its inventor

strappado also known as [Korda] is a form of torture where in the victims hands are tied behind their back and then

Suspended by a rope attached to their wrists just saying this is painful this results in dislocated shoulders

obviously weights are then added to the victims body to

This kind of torture doesn't last more than an hour because otherwise it would you just die you just straight-up died other names for strappado

include reverse hanging Palestinian hanging and  tormento della corda

Historically it was used by the medieval inquisition and many governments such as the civil law court for the order of St.

John in Malta Proper strappado causes permanent

The wooden horse is a torture device that consists of a block of wood it's sitting on four legs

The Victim is lowered onto the wooden horse

And then weights are tied to their legs until the wooden horse

Splits them in half wooden horses are also commonly used in the BDSm sex play, but not not like this

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Judas is cradle is a tall thin stool shaped device with a metal or wooden pyramid on top the victim would [be] stripped, bound with

Ropes and suspended above the device they would then be lowered very slowly onto the device making the pyramid

Penetrate the Victim the amount of pain inflicted could be changed in Several ways they could be rocked [they] could be dropped

Repeatedly they could be lifted one leg could be lifted olive oil could be spread on the pyramid ETc Etc

This was a form of Impalement that would oftentimes not directly kill the victims with the wound but the infection

Because judas is cradles were never washed [wow]

Number six the heretics fork the heretics fork is a pretty simple device to be honest

It's a small little metal fork and ring that was tied around the neck one fork points up against the chin

One Fork points down against the chest it was designed to restrict prisoners motion of their heads because if you brought your chin down the

Destroy your jaw number five the metal coffin or cage torture the metal coffin is

Exactly that a coffin made out of metal except it's actually a cage prisoners will be put in the cage

that is not large enough for a human being to stand up in the cage would then be

Suspended from something so that [was] so that it wasn't sitting on solid ground and would be slowly rocking back and Forth this would not

Only drive prisoners mad, but their prolonged exposure on body parts besides their feet against metal would cause their skin to deteriorate Rapidly

Often causing infection and damaging their joints and muscles because the people could never stand up

they were never comfortable and sleep it became a major problem as well number four the cat's paw the cat's paw is a

Horrifying cousin of brass knuckles [a] pair of brass Knuckles essentially a doll knuckled surface are at least ten

elongated claw like spikes these spikes were used as an extension of the

Executioner's hand to be swung at the victim ripping off as much flesh as possible

But not killing them these grievous wounds were often used as intimidation techniques

Killing it killing a prisoner. They didn't care [abouts] to get information out of one that they did

this one again not very creative these old Europeans the knee splitter was applied to the knee a set of spikes was sitting above the

Knee and a set of spikes would sit below the knee the knee splitter would then be tightened with screws until the knee in between

The two spikes would be crushed between them