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A wooden horse, Chevalet (as it was called in Spain), Spanish donkey or cavalletto squarciapalle is a torture device, of which there exist two variations; both inflict pain by using the subject's own weight by keeping the legs open, tied with ropes from above, while lowering down the subject. [1]
The Wooden Horse was a terrible gem devised by medieval religious fanatics. One of many favorites during the Spanish Inquisition, it was mainly used to torture women. The first variation of the wooden horse was a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward.
In addition to these writers and the Lives of Saints, we find mention of the Wooden Horse made by St. Cyprian, in his Epistle to Donatus and elsewhere, by St. Jerome, St. Augustine, Eusebius, Isidore, and others — as well as by Prudentius, repeatedly, in his Hymns.
One type of rack was known as the Horse. It was a wooden device that vaguely resembled an actual horse in shape. The victim was tied to a beam on the top (the horse's "back"), facing up. Pulleys below tightened ropes affixed to the victim's hands and feet.
The Spanish Donkey, also called the “chevalet” or simply the “wooden horse,” was one of the cruelest of the medieval torture devices. Thought to have emerged during the Holy Inquisition in 12th-century France, the Spanish Donkey was made out of wood and shaped like a triangular prism on stilts, with the triangle’s point facing upward.
“Many torments and rackings of the neck I endured on the Wooden Horse, and many on the Wheel.” Similarly Demosthenes in his Oration against Aphobus says: “Let us set Milias on the Wheel to be tortured”
The Wooden Horse, chevalet, or Spanish Donkey was an extremely painful and horrific medieval torture device. It was first used by the Holy Inquisition in France and then in Spain and Germany, and then it migrated to the Americas, gaining prominence there during the colonial period .
Also called the Spanish donkey, the cavaletto squarciapalle (translated kickstand) or chevalet from the French, the wooden horse was another product of the Inquisition which targeted the...
Catholic guilt is the reported excess guilt felt by Catholics and lapsed Catholics. [1] Guilt is remorse for having committed some offense or wrong, real or imagined. [2]
The wooden horse torture device, also known as the Spanish donkey, was a brutal contraption used during medieval times to inflict excruciating pain on victims. The victim would be placed astride a triangular wooden plank and then heavy weights or stones would be added to their feet.