It is well known that in the Middle Ages men had a talent for cruelty. And this senseless cruelty (which you probably already know from GoT) usually manifested itself in all its glory when people were punished for crimes committed, and even for those they had just been accused of!
Last night I was watching the Outlander series and in a specific episode our protagonist was accused of practicing witchcraft. Almost before the trial even began (i.e. after), the way people asked for cremation said a lot about the bloodlust of even a simple peasant.
They were often punished with these 10 terribly brutal methods.
1. Crucifixion
Nailing (or tying) people to a wooden cross and then leaving them outside for people to watch and die, a slow death, was a very famous process. practice in the Middle Ages, as demonstrated by the story of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The "best" part of the crucifixion was the terror it caused among the witnesses, leaving them too mentally paralyzed to commit a crime or resist the authorities.
2. Using rats to kill people
People are still tortured or killed from rats This is still a popular method among people, but in the beginning it was even more popular. There was a so-called mousetrap in which a mouse was caged. The bottomless cage was placed over the prisoner's body (usually the torso) and the other side of the cage was heated. When the poor mouse noticed that the other side was blocked by the heat, he slowly ate the victim's flesh to make room.
3. The brazen bull
This method was developed by The Ancient Greeks also called the Sicilian bull because it was invented in Sicily. It was a bronze device in the shape and size of a real bull. The condemned man was arrested and a fire was lit under the bull, heating the bronze until the person inside was roasted to death. This device also had systems that transformed the screams of the condemned into the roar of a bull.
4. Flaying
Flaying means skinning, literally. Only instead of dead animals, humans were often punished or tortured in the early ages by being skinned alive. Depending on the amount of skin removed, they either died or lived a life of a mentally scarred cripple. This method of torture was pretty famous in Mesopotamia. Similarly, people were also punished by getting chunks of flesh removed from their body. Shylock didn’t make a demand out of the blue after all.
5. The breaking wheel
Another classic way to pull the penalty The capital used wheel brakes. This extremely simple device consisted of a wheel to which the condemned man was attached, and sometimes spikes. The condemned man's limbs were struck with a club or mallet, and as the wheel turned, the bones in his body slowly broke, resulting in a terribly painful death.
6. Impalement
Impalement with pike, stick, spear the hook or stake was not only widespread, but also enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages. In particular, people found guilty of high treason or "crimes against the State" would be punished. And people have invented many devices to apply this method of punishment. This cruel method has been used to penetrate different body orifices for various crimes, but all of them ultimately resulted in a very painful death.
7. Crushed under an elephant
Death sentence for the boss of Crushing under the elephant was a very popular method in ancient India and other parts of Southeast Asia. In this public spectacle, elephants were taught to kill their victims immediately or slowly torture them over a long period of time. Sometimes (believe me, rarely) the elephants were simply forced to dismember the condemned person and not kill him completely.
8. Raped by wild animal to death
In the ancient Roman Empire, they were people who loved a good show. And nothing makes for a better spectacle than seeing animals maim people to death. Especially if she was a woman, she was raped by "specially" trained wild animals until she succumbed to death, as the fate of the poor Locust made her endure.
9. Sawed in half
This means the same as People often accustomed to the death penalty imposed and reduced by half. This method of execution was used in various parts of the world, such as the Roman Empire, Spain, and some parts of Asia. Another similar type of punishment was disembowelment, in which organs were removed from a living person, gradually leading to death.
10. Death by boiling
Find the people he loved in a very young, to play with his flesh or with his condemned. And, of course, it was fashionable to boil the condemned in oil or water until they died. Although it was not as popular as other methods because it did not involve direct blood sampling, it still had its target audience in Europe and Asia.
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Olivia Scarlett
It is well known that in the Middle Ages men had a talent for cruelty. And this senseless cruelty (which you probably already know from GoT) usually manifested itself in all its glory when people were punished for crimes committed, and even for those they had just been accused of!
Last night I was watching the Outlander series and in a specific episode our protagonist was accused of practicing witchcraft. Almost before the trial even began (i.e. after), the way people asked for cremation said a lot about the bloodlust of even a simple peasant.
They were often punished with these 10 terribly brutal methods.
1. Crucifixion
Nailing (or tying) people to a wooden cross and then leaving them outside for people to watch and die, a slow death, was a very famous process. practice in the Middle Ages, as demonstrated by the story of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The "best" part of the crucifixion was the terror it caused among the witnesses, leaving them too mentally paralyzed to commit a crime or resist the authorities.
2. Using rats to kill people
People are still tortured or killed from rats This is still a popular method among people, but in the beginning it was even more popular. There was a so-called mousetrap in which a mouse was caged. The bottomless cage was placed over the prisoner's body (usually the torso) and the other side of the cage was heated. When the poor mouse noticed that the other side was blocked by the heat, he slowly ate the victim's flesh to make room.
3. The brazen bull
This method was developed by The Ancient Greeks also called the Sicilian bull because it was invented in Sicily. It was a bronze device in the shape and size of a real bull. The condemned man was arrested and a fire was lit under the bull, heating the bronze until the person inside was roasted to death. This device also had systems that transformed the screams of the condemned into the roar of a bull.
4. Flaying
Flaying means skinning, literally. Only instead of dead animals, humans were often punished or tortured in the early ages by being skinned alive. Depending on the amount of skin removed, they either died or lived a life of a mentally scarred cripple. This method of torture was pretty famous in Mesopotamia. Similarly, people were also punished by getting chunks of flesh removed from their body. Shylock didn’t make a demand out of the blue after all.
5. The breaking wheel
Another classic way to pull the penalty The capital used wheel brakes. This extremely simple device consisted of a wheel to which the condemned man was attached, and sometimes spikes. The condemned man's limbs were struck with a club or mallet, and as the wheel turned, the bones in his body slowly broke, resulting in a terribly painful death.
6. Impalement
Impalement with pike, stick, spear the hook or stake was not only widespread, but also enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages. In particular, people found guilty of high treason or "crimes against the State" would be punished. And people have invented many devices to apply this method of punishment. This cruel method has been used to penetrate different body orifices for various crimes, but all of them ultimately resulted in a very painful death.
7. Crushed under an elephant
Death sentence for the boss of Crushing under the elephant was a very popular method in ancient India and other parts of Southeast Asia. In this public spectacle, elephants were taught to kill their victims immediately or slowly torture them over a long period of time. Sometimes (believe me, rarely) the elephants were simply forced to dismember the condemned person and not kill him completely.
8. Raped by wild animal to death
In the ancient Roman Empire, they were people who loved a good show. And nothing makes for a better spectacle than seeing animals maim people to death. Especially if she was a woman, she was raped by "specially" trained wild animals until she succumbed to death, as the fate of the poor Locust made her endure.
9. Sawed in half
This means the same as People often accustomed to the death penalty imposed and reduced by half. This method of execution was used in various parts of the world, such as the Roman Empire, Spain, and some parts of Asia. Another similar type of punishment was disembowelment, in which organs were removed from a living person, gradually leading to death.
10. Death by boiling
Find the people he loved in a very young, to play with his flesh or with his condemned. And, of course, it was fashionable to boil the condemned in oil or water until they died. Although it was not as popular as other methods because it did not involve direct blood sampling, it still had its target audience in Europe and Asia.
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