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Pages in category "Medieval instruments of torture" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Whirligig (torture) Wooden horse (device)
The rack is a torture device that consists of an oblong, rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one, or both, ends, having at one end a fixed bar to which the legs were fastened, and at the other a movable bar to which the hands were tied. The victim's feet are fastened to one roller, and the wrists ...
The iron chair was a torture device that was added to dungeons in the Middle Ages. It experienced its prime in popularity in Europe. The iron chair has many different variations depending on its location but they consisted of 500-1500 spikes covering the whole chair with a hole on the seat for fire and coal to be placed under.
An illustration of a torture horse of the Spanish donkey variety. Riding a rail, sketched by Andrew W. Warren in November 1864. The first variation of the wooden horse is a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward, mounted on a sawhorse-like support. The victim is made to straddle the triangular "horse."
The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1]
Scavenger's daughter. Inquisition Exhibition at the Palacio de los Olvidados in Granada.. The Scavenger's Daughter (or Skevington's Daughter) was invented as an instrument of torture in the reign of Henry VIII by Sir Leonard Skevington, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, [1] a son of Sir William Skeffington (died 1535), Lord Deputy of Ireland, and of his first wife, Margaret Digby. [2]
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A torture rack in Rothschildschloss castle, Austria. The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, [1] with a roller at one or both ends. The victim's ankles are fastened to one roller and the wrists are chained to the other.