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The Pear of Anguish. Torture museum in Lubusz Land Museum in Zielona Góra, Poland. The pear of anguish, also known as choke pear or mouth pear, is a device of disputed use invented in the early modern period. The mechanism consists of a pear-shaped metal body divided into spoon-like segments that can be spread apart with a spring or by turning ...
While accepting that ordinary pear-shaped gags exist, they observed that contemporary robbers used no such device as Palioly's Pear and cast doubt upon its very existence in the first place, saying that "fortunately for us this 'diabolical invention' appears to be one of the lost arts, if, indeed, it ever existed outside of de Calvi's head.
Possibly because of this idiom, the names "choke pear" and "pear of anguish" have been used for a gagging device allegedly used in Europe, sometime before the 17th century. [6] Dalechamps has identified this with the species of pear that Pliny the Elder listed as "ampullaceum" in his Naturalis Historia. [7]
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The Pear of Anguish is a torture instrument shaped like a pear, which was inserted in the victim's mouth, rectum or vagina. Upon insertion, the handle was turned, causing the leaves to slowly separate causing extreme pain and mutilation to the victim.
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Choke pear may refer to: Choke pear (plant), any variety of astringent pear fruit; Pear of anguish, a device found in some museums This page was last edited on 28 ...
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