The breaking wheel or execution wheel, also known as the Wheel of Catherine or simply the Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages into the early modern period by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death.
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@fasc1nate A prisoner being tortured by the Spanish Inquisition on the wheel, with a fire lit below him
@fasc1nate And they are not saying Thier ancestors curse is on them 😂
Chinese water torture was a torture method where cold water was slowly dripping at irregular intervals on the victim’s scalp or forehead. Of course, the victim was strapped and unable to move. The irregular water drops caused fear, which led to a psychotic break of the victim in less than twenty-four hours.
@fasc1nate The Iron Maiden torture device
The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, or bull of Phalaris, was an alleged torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. The bull was said to be hollow and made entirely out of bronze with a door on one side. It was designed in the form and size of an actual bull and had an acoustic apparatus that converted screams into the sound of a bull. The condemned were locked inside the device, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death.
@fasc1nate During a solar eclipse in 1973, a specially modified Concorde flew under the moon’s shadow for a record 70-plus minutes. This photo was shot from below by a Boeing NC-135 chase plane
@fasc1nate The 1936 execution of Rainey Bethea for the rape and murder of Lischia Edwards, was watched by over 20,000 men, women and children. It was the last public hanging in the USA.
At first glance, the so-called Spanish Donkey may not seem menacing. But take a closer look. It was shaped like a pommel horse in gymnastics, but with a pointed triangular edge facing upwards. This device’s shape ensured that its victims received a gruesomely agonizing experience. The offender would be stripped of all of their clothes and then made to straddle what was essentially a triangular piece of metal with a board placed over it to form a sawhorse-type shape. Often, the victim would then have restraints or weights tied to their ankles in order to make the experience even more painful. Depending on how long a victim was made to sit on the Spanish Donkey, they could experience anything from intense discomfort to agonizing pain to disfigurement and death.