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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 original usage of tripalium is still unclear. Its meaning is mainly inferred from interpretations of "three stakes". [1] The earliest references [specify] from the ancient Roman era use the term to describe a wooden structure designed to securely immobilize a large "fiery animal" [This quote needs a citation] (horse, oxen, cow) during examination or care.
The Ceffyl Pren ("wooden horse") is a term referring to a former local form of punishment practiced in Welsh form of mob justice.It was a form of ritual humiliation in which offenders would be paraded around the village tied to a wooden frame, sometimes at night, by a mob carrying torches. [1]
Wooden horse may refer to: The Wooden Horse, a 1950 British World War II prisoner of war film; The Wooden Horse, a 1909 novel by Hugh Walpole; Wooden horse (device), a torture device; Hobby horse, a children's toy Hooden horse, a type of hobby horse used by mummers; Trojan Horse, the wooden horse of Troy
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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 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]
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