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2. Rack (torture) - Wikipedia

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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.

3. List of methods of torture - Wikipedia

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   The rack was first used in antiquity and it is unclear exactly from which civilization it originated, though some of the earliest examples are from Greece. Arrian 's Anabasis of Alexander states that Alexander the Great had the pages who conspired in his assassination, and their mentor, his court historian Callisthenes , tortured on the rack in ...

4. Skevington's gyves - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. Breaking wheel - Wikipedia

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   Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or ...

6. Torture chamber - Wikipedia

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   The process of being tied and led to the torture rack inside the torture chamber was a form of intimidation and was called territio realis as opposed to territio verbalis oder lexis which was the verbal threat of torture being made at the judgment hall. Territio realis as well as the actual torture session were called examen rigorosum. [27]

7. Strappado - Wikipedia

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   The Strappado, used as public punishment, detail of plate 10 of Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot, 1633. The strappado, also known as corda, [1] is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind their back and the victim is suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders.

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9. Ladyhawke (film) - Wikipedia

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   Ladyhawke is a 1985 medieval fantasy film directed and produced by Richard Donner and starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer.The story is about a young thief who becomes unwillingly involved with a warrior and his lady who are hunted by the Bishop of Aquila.