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Known torture. The most sophisticated and cruel torture of women. Witch bathing chair

The term "inquisition" comes from lat. Inquisitio, meaning interrogation, inquiry. The term was widespread in the legal field even before the emergence of medieval church institutions with this name, and meant the clarification of the circumstances of the case by investigation, usually by interrogation, often with the use of force. And only over time, the Inquisition began to be understood as spiritual judgments over anti-Christian heresies.

The torture of the Inquisition had hundreds of varieties. Some medieval instruments of torture have survived to this day, but more often than not even museum exhibits have been restored according to descriptions. Their variations are amazing. Before you are twenty instruments of torture of the Middle Ages.

These are iron shoes with a sharp spike under the heel. The spike could be unscrewed with a screw. With the thorn twisted, the torture victim had to stand on the toes for as long as there was strength. Stand on tiptoe and check how long you can stretch.

Four thorns - two, digging into the chin, two - into the sternum, did not allow the victim to make any head movements, including lowering his head below.

The sinner was tied to a chair suspended from a long pole, and lowered under the water for a while, then they gave a little breath of air, and again - under the water. A popular time of year for such torture is late autumn or even winter. An ice hole was made in the ice, and after a while the victim not only suffocated under water without air, but also in such a desired air was covered with a crust of ice. Sometimes the torture lasted for days.

This is such an attachment on the leg with a metal plate, which with each question and the subsequent refusal to answer it as required, tightened more and more in order to break the bones of the legs. To enhance the effect, sometimes the inquisitor was connected to the torture, who hit the mount with a hammer. Often, after such torture, all the bones of the victim below the knee were shattered, and the wounded skin looked like a bag for these bones.

This method was "spied" by the inquisitors in the east. The sinner was tied with barbed wire or strong ropes to a special wooden device such as a table with a strongly raised middle - so that the sinner's stomach would stick out as far as possible. His mouth was stuffed with rags or straw so that he would not close, and a tube was inserted into his mouth through which an incredible amount of water was poured into the victim. If the victim did not interrupt this torture in order to confess something or the purpose of the torture was unambiguous death, at the end of the test the victim was removed from the table, laid on the ground, and the executioner jumped on her swollen belly. The ending is clear and disgusting.

It is clear that it was not used to scratch the back. The victim's flesh was torn apart - slowly, painfully, to the point that with the same hooks they pulled out not only pieces of the body, but also the ribs.

The same rack. There were two main options: vertical, when the victim was suspended from the ceiling, twisting the joints and hanging all heavy weights from her legs, and horizontal, when the sinner's body was fixed on a rack and stretched by a special mechanism until her muscles and joints were torn ...

The victim was tied to four horses - by the arms and legs. Then the animals were allowed to gallop. There were no options - only death.

This device was inserted into the holes of the body - obviously, not into the mouth or ears - and opened so as to inflict unthinkable pain on the victim by tearing open these holes.

In many Catholic countries, the clergy believed that after all, the soul of a sinner could be cleansed. For these purposes, they had to use either pouring boiling water down the sinner's throat or throwing hot coals there. You yourself understand that in caring for the soul there was no place for caring for the body.

It assumed two extreme modes of operation. In cold weather, like a chair for a witch's bathing, a sinner in this cage, suspended from a long pole, was lowered under the water and pulled out of it, making him freeze and suffocate.

And in the heat, the sinner hung in it in the sun for as many days as he could endure without a drop of water to drink.

How a sinner could somehow repent of something, when at first his teeth clenched and crumbled, then his jaw crumbled, followed by the bones of the skull - until the brain poured out of his ears - is incomprehensible. There is information that in some countries a version of this crusher is still used as an interrogation tool.

This was the main way to eradicate the witch's influence on other people's sinless souls. A burnt soul ruled out any possibility of confusion or staining a sinless soul. What doubts can there be?

The know-how belongs to Hippolyte Marsili. At one time, this instrument of torture was considered loyal - it did not break bones, did not tear ligaments. First, the sinner was lifted up on a rope, and then he sat on the Cradle, and the top of the triangle was inserted into the same holes as the Pear. It hurt to such an extent that the sinner fainted. He was lifted, "pumped out" and put back on the Cradle.

15. Cradle

Cousin of the Cradle of Judas. The picture hardly leaves room for the imagination of how this instrument of torture was used. Also decent disgusting.

It is a huge sarcophagus in the form of an open empty female figure, inside which numerous blades and sharp thorns are fixed. They are located in such a way that the vital organs of the victim imprisoned in the sarcophagus were not affected, so the agony of the sentenced to death was long and painful.

For the first time, the "Virgin" was used in 1515. The condemned man died for three days.

Central Europe is the main place of his popularity. The sinner was stripped naked, seated on a chair studded with thorns. It was impossible to move - otherwise, not only stab wounds, but also tears appeared on the body. If this was not enough for the inquisitors, they took thorns or forceps in their hands and tormented the victim's limbs.

This terrible execution was invented in the east. The fact is that a person who was skillfully put on a stake - his end had to stick out from the victim's throat (and not as depicted in this picture), could live for several more days - suffer physically and mentally, since this execution was public.

The executioners and inquisitors of those years showed remarkable ingenuity in their business. They knew perfectly well what a person experiences pain from, and they knew that in an unconscious state he would not feel pain. And what is the execution in the Middle Ages without sadism? A person could meet ordinary death everywhere, it was not uncommon. And an unusual and very painful death is sawing. The victim was hung upside down so that the blood did not stop supplying oxygen to the head, and the person experienced all the horror of pain. Sometimes, he lived up to the moment when they slowly, slowly managed to cut his body to the diaphragm.

A person sentenced to the wheel with an iron crowbar or a wheel broke all the large bones of the body, then they tied him to a large wheel, and set the wheel on a pole. The convict found himself face up, looking at the sky, and died like that from shock and dehydration, often for quite a long time. The suffering of the dying person was aggravated by the birds that pecked at him. Sometimes, instead of a wheel, they just used a wooden frame or a cross made of logs.

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With the development of civilization human life acquired value regardless of social status and wealth. It is all the more terrible to read about the black pages of history, when the law did not simply deprive a person of life, but turned execution into a spectacle for the amusement of ordinary people. In other cases, the execution could be of a ritual or edifying nature. Unfortunately, there are similar episodes in modern history. We have compiled a list of the most brutal executions ever practiced by humans.

Ancient world executions

Scafism

The word "scaphism" is derived from ancient greek word"Trough", "boat", and the method itself went down in history thanks to Plutarch, who described the execution of the Greek ruler Mithridates at the behest of Artaxerxes, the king of the ancient Persians.

First, the man was stripped naked and tied inside two dugout boats so that his head, arms and legs, which were thickly coated with honey, remained outside. The victim was then forcibly given a mixture of milk and honey to induce diarrhea. After that, the boat was lowered into stagnant water - a pond or lake. Lured by the smell of honey and sewage, insects covered the human body, slowly devoured the flesh and laid the larvae in the resulting gangrenous ulcers. The victim survived for up to two weeks. Death came from three factors: infection, exhaustion and dehydration.

Execution by impalement was invented in Assyria (modern Iraq). In this way, residents of rebellious cities and women who had an abortion were punished - then this procedure was considered infanticide.

The execution was carried out in two ways. In one case, the convict was pierced in the chest with a stake, in the other, the tip of the stake passed through the body through the anus. People who were tormented were often depicted on bas-reliefs as an edification. Later, this execution began to be applied by the peoples of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, as well as by the Slavic peoples and some Europeans.

Execution by elephants

This method was used mainly in India and Sri Lanka. Indian elephants lend themselves well to training, which was used by the rulers of Southeast Asia.

There were many ways to kill a person with the help of an elephant. For example, armor with sharp spears was worn on the tusks, with which the elephant pierced the criminal and then, while still alive, tore apart. But more often than not, elephants learned to press down on the convict with their feet and alternately tear off the limbs with their trunk. In India, a guilty person was often simply thrown at the feet of an angry animal. For reference, the Indian elephant weighs about 5 tons.

Surrender to the beasts

Behind the beautiful phrase "Damnatio ad bestias" lies the painful death of thousands of ancient Romans, especially among the early Christians. Although, of course, this method was invented long before the Romans. Usually lions were used for execution, less popular were bears, panthers, leopards and buffaloes.

There were two types of execution. Often those sentenced to death were tied to a pillar in the middle of the gladiatorial arena and wild beasts were lowered onto it. There were also variations: thrown to a cage to a hungry animal or tied to its back. In another case, the unfortunate was forced to go out to battle against the beast. They had a simple spear from their weapons, and a tunic from their "armor". In both cases, many spectators gathered for the execution.

Death on the cross

The crucifixion was invented by the Phoenicians - an ancient people of seafarers who lived in the Mediterranean. Later this method was adopted by the Carthaginians, and then by the Romans. The Israelites and Romans considered death on the cross the most shameful, because in this way they executed hardened criminals, slaves and traitors.

Before the crucifixion, the person was undressed, leaving only a loincloth. He was beaten with leather whips or freshly cut rods, after which he was forced to carry a cross, weighing about 50 kilograms, to the place of crucifixion. Having dug the cross into the ground by the road outside the city or on a hill, the person was lifted with ropes and nailed to a horizontal bar. Sometimes the convict's legs were preliminarily crushed with an iron bar. Death occurred from exhaustion, dehydration, or painful shock.

After the prohibition of Christianity in feudal Japan in the 17th century. crucifixion was used against visiting missionaries and Japanese Christians. The scene of the execution on the cross is present in Martin Scorsese's drama Silence, which tells exactly about this period.

Execution with bamboo

The ancient Chinese were champions of sophisticated torture and execution. One of the most exotic methods of killing is by stretching the culprit over the growing shoots of young bamboo. The sprouts made their way through the human body for several days, causing incredible suffering to the executed.

Ling chi

"Ling-chi" is translated into Russian as "sea pike bites." There was another name - "death from a thousand cuts." This method was used during the reign of the Qing dynasty, and high-ranking officials convicted of corruption were executed in this way. There were 15-20 such people every year.

The essence of "ling-chi" is the gradual cutting off of small parts from the body. For example, having chopped off one phalanx of a finger, the executioner cauterized the wound and then proceeded to the next. How many pieces need to be cut off from the body, the court determined. The most popular verdict was cutting into 24 parts, and the most notorious criminals were sentenced to 3 thousand cutting off. In such cases, the victim was given opium to drink: so she did not lose consciousness, but the pain made its way even through the veil of drug intoxication.

Sometimes, as a sign of special mercy, the ruler could order the executioner to first kill the condemned with one blow and torture the corpse. This method of execution was practiced for 900 years and was banned in 1905.

Medieval executions

Bloody eagle

Historians have questioned the existence of the "Bloody Eagle" execution, but it is mentioned in Scandinavian folklore. This method was used by the inhabitants of the Scandinavian countries in the early Middle Ages.

The harsh Vikings killed their enemies in the most painful and symbolic way. The man's hands were tied and his stomach was laid on a stump. The skin on the back was carefully cut with a sharp blade, then the ribs were pried with an ax, breaking them out in a shape resembling eagle's wings. After that, the lungs were removed from the still living victim and hung on the ribs.

This execution is shown twice in the TV series Vikings with Travis Fimmel (in episode 7 of season 2 and episode 18 of season 4), although viewers noted the contradictions between the serial execution and the one described in the folklore "Elder Edda".

"Bloody Eagle" in the TV series "Vikings"

Ripping by trees

This kind of execution was widespread in many regions of the world, including in Russia in the pre-Christian period. The victim was tied by the legs to two inclined trees, which were then abruptly released. One of the legends says that Prince Igor was killed in this way by the Drevlyans in 945 - because he wanted to collect tribute from them twice.

Quartering

The method was used as in medieval Europe. Each limb was tied to horses - the animals tore the condemned in 4 parts. In Russia, they also practiced quartering, but this word meant a completely different execution - the executioner alternately chopped off the legs with an ax, then the arms, and then the head.

Wheeling

Wheeling as a form of the death penalty was widely used in France and Germany during the Middle Ages. In Russia, this type of execution is known at a later time - from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The essence of the punishment was that at first the guilty person was tied to a wheel with his face to the sky, his arms and legs being fastened to the needles. After that, his limbs were broken and, as such, he was left to die in the sun.

Flaying

Skinning, or skinning, was invented in Assyria, then passed to Persia and spread throughout the ancient world. In the Middle Ages, the Inquisition improved this type of execution - with the help of a device called the "Spanish tickler", a person's skin was torn into small pieces, which were not difficult to tear off.

Welding alive

This execution was also invented in antiquity and received a second wind in the Middle Ages. Basically, counterfeiters were executed in this way. A person caught in counterfeiting money was thrown into a cauldron of boiling water, tar or oil. This variety was quite humane - the offender quickly died from painful shock. More sophisticated executioners put the condemned in a cauldron of cold water, which was heated gradually, or slowly lowered him into boiling water, starting from the feet. The cooked muscles of the legs were moving away from the bones, and the person was still alive.

Execution by rats

The prisoner's legs and arms were tied tightly to a metal bench, and a cage with rats with a broken bottom was placed on his stomach. Then the executioner brought the burner to the cage, and the animals, in a panic, began to look for a way out. And he was only one - through the body of the victim.

Modern executions

Dissolution in acid

It is believed that the Sicilian mafia began to dissolve victims in acid. The name of the assassin-mafioso Giovanni Brusca is heard in this ransom. Suspecting that his friend was "dripping" into the police, Bruska kidnapped his 11-year-old son and dissolved him alive in an acid-filled bathroom.

This execution is also practiced among the extremists of the East. According to the former bodyguard of Saddam Hussein, he witnessed an acid execution: first into a filled caustic substance the pool was lowered by the victim's legs, and then thrown entirely. And in 2016, militants of the banned ISIS organization dissolved 25 people in a cauldron of acid.

Cement boots

This method is well known to many of our readers of gangster movies. Indeed, they killed their enemies and traitors with such a cruel method during the mafia wars in Chicago. The victim was tied to a chair, then a basin filled with liquid cement was placed under his feet. And when he froze, the person was taken to the nearest reservoir and thrown off the boat. Cement boots instantly dragged him to the bottom to feed the fish.

Death flights

In 1976, General Jorge Videla came to power in Argentina. He ruled the country for only 5 years, but remained in history as one of the most terrible dictators of our time. Among other atrocities of Videla are the so-called "flights of death".

A man who opposed the tyrant's regime was pumped up with barbiturates and unconsciously carried on board an airplane, then thrown down - certainly into the water.

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Throughout history, various forms of torture have been used against women in order to control their behavior. As you read it, you will feel a shiver down your spine. Women were tortured to suppress their sexuality, silence them, or meet beauty standards. First of all, it was aimed at breaking the spirit of women and making them obedient to men who were afraid of the destruction of their fragile worldview. Feminists would hate it. Most of these methods of torture were abolished centuries ago, however some of these barbaric punishments are still practiced today.

1. Spanish donkey

The Spanish donkey, also known as the wooden horse, slowly slashed the woman through her genitals. It was used during the Middle Ages, during the Spanish Inquisition. A similar device was used by the Confederates during the Civil War. The device was a board, the upper edge of which was sharpened wedge-shaped. The plank, which was sometimes covered with thorns, was supported by two or four legs. The woman was seated astride this board, which slowly cut through her body, starting at the crotch. Sometimes weights were tied to the woman's legs so that the wedge-shaped edge penetrated even deeper and cut the internal organs.

2. Female circumcision injured little girls

Female circumcision is recognized as one of the barbaric methods of torture. According to the World Health Organization, over 200 million girls and women living today have gone through this procedure. Unlike male circumcision, there is no health benefit from female circumcision. Its sole purpose is to reduce a woman's sexual pleasure. In most cases, the procedure was performed with unsanitary instruments and dirty conditions. A young girl under the age of 15 was held by female family members. One of them took a jagged object and removed the clitoris and sometimes the labia. In many cases, infection occurred, which often led to death.

3. Chest vise

This particularly vile instrument of torture, also known as the Iron Spider, was used against women accused of adultery and single mothers. It was an instrument with two large pointed prongs that was placed in a woman's breast and then the flesh was ripped out. When red-hot, it was used to make a special mark on a woman's chest. This tool was no longer used in the Middle Ages.

4. Masks of shame

In the Middle Ages, the easiest way to silence a woman who was always nagging and nagging was the so-called mask of shame. Also, this instrument of torture was used against a woman who was gossiping. At the time, gossip was feared as an invention of the devil. The first recorded evidence of the use of a mask of shame dates back to the 16th century. Sometimes thorns were also attached to the woman's mouth above the tongue, which caused great pain to the woman when she tried to say something. However, the torture of the mask of shame was primarily psychological - the woman was publicly humiliated when she was exposed on the street in this form, and those around her cursed and spat on her.

5. Sawing a woman in half was pretty common.

The woman was hung upside down and literally sawed in half, starting at the genitals. Unlike the movies, there was no way to break out of this nightmare. This torture method was used in the Middle Ages as the way to inflict the most pain, with the least amount of effort. All it took was a saw, two people with no compassion, and a very strong stomach. This torture was applied to women who were accused of witchcraft, adultery, or blasphemy. As a rule, during the torture, the woman was still alive and conscious. Sometimes the process lasted several hours before the executioners ended up cutting the entire body in half. Or they stopped at the belly to prolong the painful death.

6. The pear of suffering was applied to women accused of abortion

The name of this inquisitive device speaks for itself. The Pear of Suffering, so named for its resemblance to the aforementioned fruit, was a horrific torture method that was used in the Middle Ages and in the 17th century. The metal tool was divided into 4 petal-shaped segments that opened when the lever on the opposite side was turned. The main victims of this device were women accused of witchcraft and abortion. The pear was inserted into the vagina and gradually opened, tearing the woman's reproductive organs and causing incredible suffering. The tool has also been used on suspected homosexuals. It was also used against people accused of spreading heresy. It expanded until the victim's jawbones broke.

7. Throwing is still practiced today.

Throwing stones, or lapidation, is one of the most ancient and primitive methods of torture. Its essence lies in the fact that stones are thrown at a person's head. Although men are also stoned to death, women represent the vast majority of the victims of this brutal public execution in modern world... The most common victims of this type of execution are women accused of adultery. And sometimes even members of the victim's family act as executioners. Today, 15 countries still practice stoning as a punishment, including Nigeria, Sudan, Iran and Pakistan.

8. Sexual torture and violence was used around the world

Rape has been used as a means of torture throughout history. For example, during the Nanjing Massacre, Japanese soldiers raped and killed thousands of Chinese women. Rape is also used as a method to extract confessions from prisoners. Amnestey International has found that rape is “commonly” used to force women to confess to crimes in Mexican prisons. Rape is probably the oldest and most persistent method of torturing women that exists.

9. Burning at the stake

Burning at the stake was a classic form of the death penalty for women suspected of witchcraft, treason, and heresy. (Men accused of heresy or treason were usually executed by hanging or quartering.) Burning women was usually popular in England in the 15th-18th centuries, but contrary to popular belief, it was not used during the Salem hunting. If a victim, sentenced to death by incineration, was not lucky enough to pass out from inhaled smoke, she would die an agonizing death, feeling their skin burn and tear. Relief came only when the nerves in the skin were too damaged for the victim to feel no more pain.

10. Corsets deformed women's bodies

The corset has existed for about 500 years. And after all the horrors described above, it does not seem like something scary. Many modern feminists claim that the corset was a device used to subdue women and was used to meet unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards. The first mention of corsets dates back to 1530. However, corsets became popular in the 18th century and were used, as in their modern version, as underwear. Corsets restrict breathing and prolonged wearing of a corset can deform the waist. It also restricts and displaces vital organs and causes back muscle atrophy.

Four thorns - two, digging into the chin, two - into the sternum, did not allow the victim to make any head movements, including lowering his head below.

The victim was tied to four horses - by the arms and legs. Then the animals were allowed to gallop. There were no options - only death.

This device was inserted into the holes of the body - obviously, not into the mouth or ears - and opened so as to inflict unthinkable pain on the victim by tearing open these holes.

And in the heat, the sinner hung in it in the sun for as many days as he could endure without a drop of water to drink.

This was the main way to eradicate the witch's influence on other people's sinless souls. A burnt soul ruled out any possibility of confusion or staining a sinless soul. What doubts can there be?

15. Cradle

Cousin of the Cradle of Judas. The picture hardly leaves room for the imagination of how this instrument of torture was used. Also decent disgusting.

For the first time, the "Virgin" was used in 1515. The condemned man died for three days.

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"One death is not enough for such people: we must add mechanics"

"Bloody Countess"

Humanity was born, conflicts appeared. But since at first everyone was equal, everything was limited to a massacre, sometimes with a lethal outcome. In particular, who is stronger is right.

As time went on, civilizations appeared, people ceased to be equal. Now physical strength alone was not enough, your finances and position in society decided your rightness. With the development of tech. progress to extricate the desired from the accused no longer amounted to labor - the poor fellows themselves were glad of death, their deliverance.

Below are the monuments to human cruelty and the subtlety of the mind. Unfortunately, not much yet, but there will be that bi continius! Promise.

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PEN-FORT-ET-DUR

Pen-fort-et-dure, or "deadly pressure", first appeared in England in 1406, and although this punishment gradually ceased to be applied, it was not officially abolished until 1772.

In Newgate Prison, the prison yard was called the "press yard," and the room in which most inmates were tortured was called the "press room."

Although we have already talked about crushing torture, it usually did not lead to the death of the interrogated. In contrast to her, "death pressure" was originally an instrument of painful execution. Death with him came only after long torment, when the respiratory muscles of the convict, with difficulty lifting a heavy load, got tired and he died from slow suffocation.

The procedure was as simple as it was cruel, as can be judged from the text of the court verdict itself: clothes except for a loincloth. Then put on him as many heavy loads as he can bear, and even more. Feed him only stale bread and drink only water, and let him not drink water on the day he eats, and do not eat on that the day he drinks water. And so do until he dies. " Later, some changes were made to this procedure, although this execution did not become more humane from such innovations:

This punishment was applied at first in order to force the suspect to admit his guilt. To understand why this was done, one must remember that in those days the trial began only when the accused pleaded either guilty or innocent of the crime incriminated to him. In addition, the fact that the property of a convicted offender went into the treasury of the state often made him pretend to be dumb, in order to thus preserve his property for his children. Most of these "taciturn" prisoners were forced to speak by applying pen-forte-et-dur to them, but there is evidence that some of them died under torture, but did not open their mouths, thus depriving the Crown of its legal prey:

In 1740 a certain Matthew Ryan was tried for robbery. When he was arrested, he pretended to be insane, stripped off all his clothes and threw him around the cell. The jailers were never able to get him to get dressed; in court, he appeared in what his mother gave birth. There he pretended to be deaf and dumb, not wanting to plead guilty. Then the judge ordered the jury to examine him and say whether he was crazy and deaf and dumb by the will of "God" or "of his own design." The jury's verdict was - "of their own intent." The judge once again tried to get the prisoner to talk, but he did not react in any way to the words addressed to him. The law required the use of pen-forte-et-dur, but the judge, feeling sorry for the stubborn, postponed the torture for the future, hoping that, after sitting in the cell and thinking hard, he would come to his senses. When he again appeared before the court, the same thing was repeated, and the court finally delivered a terrible sentence: to apply “deadly pressure”. The sentence was carried out two days later in the market square in Kilkenny. When loads were piled on his chest, he begged to hang him, but it was not in the power of the sheriff to change anything.

(“Terrific Register”, Edinburgh, 1825).

Animal rape of women

<Название этой статьи поначалу кажется абсурдом. Разве возможны сексуальные забавы животных с людьми. Ну, конечно, многие слышали о скотоложцах, которые развлекаются с животными, но это?

Is it possible for an animal to take a woman by force? Unfortunately, this turned out to be not only possible, but it was also adopted by the monsters, who were not enough of all those tortures that mankind invented for its existence. It seemed to them necessary to trample the human "I" of the captive and in this way. In addition, many were amused by the very spectacularity of this "process". The meaning of this brutal torture was to humiliate the unfortunate woman to the utmost, subjecting her to something that, it would seem, could not exist. It was necessary to turn a person into an animal, turning him into some kind of that involuntary sexual partner. Well, without these explanations, everyone can imagine what the unfortunate felt when a wild animal invaded the place that belonged only to their loved one. Alas, this existed both as torture, and as a sophisticated mockery and as a sadistic execution. ...

This is how the famous researcher Daniel P. Mannix describes what was happening in the Roman amphitheater in his book "Going to Death ..."

Sexual intercourse between women and animals was often shown under the stands, similar to what is shown today in Place Pigalle in Paris. Such spectacles were shown from time to time in the arena ..

The problem was finding animals that would do what was required of them. A donkey or even a large dog that would voluntarily copulate with a woman in front of a screaming crowd was difficult to find, and of course the woman's help was required. If the woman wanted to mate herself, it did little to amuse the crowd.

The bestiary (a trainer who taught animals in the amphitheater) tried hard to teach animals to rape women. For this, women were usually covered with animal skins or placed in wooden models of cows or lionesses. During the presentation of a play called “The Minotaur,” Nero ordered the actor who played the role of Pasiphae to be placed in a wooden cow, and the actor who played the bull to copulate with him. However, these adaptations proved to be ineffective when working with real animals, and this project had to be abandoned.

Carpophorus, who had gained experience under the stands from early childhood, understood very well what was the matter. Animals are mainly guided by the sense of smell, not sight. The young bestiary closely watched all the females in Everin and, when they were in heat, soaked their soft tissues with blood.

He counted these fabrics and put them aside. Then he found a woman under the stands who agreed to help him. Using completely tame animals, which did not pay attention to the noise and crowding around them, he was encouraged to copulate with a woman wrapped in prepared cloth. As in his work with cannibals, he created a habitual way of behaving in animals and never gave them the opportunity to come into contact with females of his own kind. As the animals gained confidence, they became aggressive. If the woman, following the instructions of Carpophorus, defended herself, the cheetah sank its claws into her shoulders, grabbed her by the neck with his teeth, shook her and forced her to obey. Carpophorus used several women to train the animals well. A woman raped by a horse, bull or giraffe usually did not survive the trials, but he could always get the broken old prostitutes from the provinces who did not fully understand what their work was until it was too late.

Carpophorus made a splash with his new stunts. No one imagined lions, leopards, wild boars and zebras raping women. The Romans were very fond of performances on mythological subjects. Zeus, the king of the gods, often raped young girls in the form of various animals, so such scenes could be presented in the arena. Carpophorus staged the scene of the rape by a bull of a young girl representing Europe. The audience applauded wildly.

Apuleius left us a vivid description of one of these scenes.

The poisoner, who sent five people to the next world in order to take possession of their condition, was to be torn apart in the arena by wild animals. But first, in order to increase the agony and shame, she had to be raped by a donkey. In the arena, a tortoise-shell bed with a feather mattress and a Chinese bedspread was set up. The woman was stretched out on the bed and tied to her. The donkey was trained to kneel on the bed, otherwise nothing would have worked. When copulation ended, wild beasts were released into the arena, and they quickly put an end to the suffering of the unfortunate woman.

The old-fashioned bestiaries despised Carpophorus. They argued that by staging dirty shows, he humiliated their noble profession. True, they forgot that in the years of their youth, the old bestiaries condemned them for teaching predators to devour defenseless men and women. In fact, both sides were worthy of each other. The spectacles degraded more and more. What was once a demonstration of real courage and art, albeit brutal, gradually became only an excuse for harsh and sexually perverted spectacles.

Chimpanzees were drunk and then incited to rape the girls tied to poles. When these human-sized monkeys were discovered in Africa, the Romans mistook them for real satyrs, creatures from mythology. The arena was also visited by other monkeys, also the size of a man - titirus - with round reddish muzzles and mustaches. Their images can be seen on vases. These were, apparently, orangutans who were brought from Indonesia. As far as I know, the Romans never exhibited gorillas in circuses, although these largest monkeys in the world were known to the Phoenicians, who gave them the name meaning “hairy savages”.

One wealthy noble lady, having promised Carpophorus a fantastic amount of money, asked him to bring one of his trained donkeys to her home at night. Carpophorus naturally complied with her request. The lady carefully prepared for the arrival of the donkey. The four eunuchs made a bed on the floor, covered with a Tyrian purple cloth embroidered with gold, and placed soft pillows at the head of the bed. The lady ordered Carpophorus to bring the donkey to bed, and then rubbed it with balm with her own hands. When preparations were over, Carpophorus was asked to leave the room and come the next day. A similar story is described in detail in the book of Apuleius "The Golden Donkey".

The lady demanded the services of the donkey so often that Carpophorus began to fear that she would wear herself out and die, but after a few weeks he was already worried only about the lady draining the strength of the valuable animal. However, he made a lot of money from this.

Used this barbaric procedure in other countries, as a variant of brutal torture, often preceding the execution. So, in particular, this is what Xu Yingqiu (XIV century - China) writes about the beautiful and cruel Gaoxin, the favorite of Prince Qu. "Diyu and Chaoping (the prince's concubines) were taken to the town square, stripped naked, put on their knees and tied to stakes driven into the ground in this position. Then rams, goats and even males began to happen to them, much to Gaoxin's delight. cut in half. "

Our contemporaries did not forget about such torture. So, there is a mention of the release of dogs on tied women, trained to rape the fair sex by the Pinochet secret police and the secret services of some other Latin American dictatorships.

“Wild people!” - another reader will say. I will note, however, that representatives of the once highly developed civilizations did not disdain zoophilia either: for example, at the excavations of Sodom and Gomorrah, frescoes were found that can be safely called “Animal Kama Sutra.” They found something similar and during the excavation of settlements of other ancient peoples. And what is characteristic: this kind of sexual perversion - in contrast to the same necrophilia, pedophilia, etc., etc. - has its own "philosophy" rooted in centuries. the desire of the ancients to “approach” their totemic ancestors, well, and how they “approached” the same “untouched” cows and horses themselves. The consequences of such intercourse have always been sad (see Sodom and Gomorrah), but the phenomenon is nevertheless and remained not eradicated.

Few people know that in the USSR the first gang of zoophile-sadists was liquidated back ... in the mid-70s. The maniacs who took a liking to an abandoned dacha near Moscow as a "film studio" stole not only adult women, but also children, forced them to engage in unnatural acts with dogs, and all this was recorded on film. The technology was simple: precise **** was applied on the bodies of the victims, after which a dog, distraught with passion, was lowered onto them.

In this case, which later became criminal, it is worth noting two important circumstances. Firstly, none of the victims left the "film studio" alive - after the "filming" all of them were brutally killed by a gang of five people. Secondly, the "zoophiles" themselves were engaged in these abominations, as they say. “For the love of art”: selling such footage anywhere seemed very unlikely in those years. But they got burned because of their own greed: the very first contact with a foreign tourist in Moscow, to whom they tried to “sell a movie,” led to the disclosure of the gang. The shocked foreign tourist was not afraid to turn to the Soviet police, the opera went to the "allies", and the bandits were already detained by the KGB power unit.

This was followed by a closed trial, all five participants were quickly shot. The case itself was buried in the archives and was announced later only at advanced training courses for the leadership of law enforcement agencies. Moreover, the main emphasis was not on “zoophilic motives”, but on “penetration of Western agents into the USSR”: at the underground “film studio”, investigators found homemade swastikas and other fascist symbols, linking its presence with the “hand of the West”.

Even though the group was quite “local”, and according to some fragments of the investigation materials, it can be understood that the 25-year-old Anatoly K. and 30-year-old Boris V. were more likely mentally handicapped killers than Western “hirelings”.

So, if we discard the possibility of using this by various perverts and maniacs, there remains a huge scope for engaging in this kind of torture of various secret services in various countries. I don’t think this torture is a thing of the past. Her forbidden sweetness, cracking the soul of the executioners, is too attractive.

Genital torture

There is no doubt that the genitals are the most sensitive parts of the human body, their rich innervation is due to the need to produce orgasm, which enhances the procreation reflex. All this was provided by nature even in animals. In humans, all these reflexes were supported by a feeling of love. Isn't it strange that those parts of the body that were supposed to give joy from intimacy with a loved one, in someone's perverted brain, began to be used for savage torture.

Most likely, the first step on this terrible path was the invention of torture of this kind for men. We can be convinced of this by the drawings of Ancient Egypt and Assyria, where we see incisions on the penis, squeezing the scrotum, burning with a torch. However, the sources of those times did not tell us about such torture of women. Therefore, let's start the story with the torture of men. The simplest and most effective method was simple beating. It is widespread throughout the world and in our time.

So in Ancient Greece, the introduction of a prickly branch into the urethra of the interrogated is described. Telling about the emperor Domitian, Suetonius in "The Life of the 12 Caesars", writes - "to the many tortures that existed until now, he added one more - he burned people with fire their shameful members." His predecessor, Tiberius, whose fierce suspicion became legendary, was no better, "having deliberately made people drink pure wine, then their limbs were unexpectedly bandaged and they were exhausted from urinary retention and cutting bandages."

We have already talked about the press for the breasts, with which the unfortunate captives were tortured. For men, a similar device was made with which the testes were slowly crushed. Rarely has a person been able to withstand this torture. In one of the manuals to the inquisitors, it was said that "with the help of the press in the genital area, you can force a man to confess to any crime." There was a more sophisticated device called the "goat", it was a wedge-hewn log with a perpendicular post attached to it. The accused was seated astride this projectile, pulled to the upright, so that he leaned groin on the sloping seat. The latter was done in the form of a vice, its halves were pushed apart, so that the intimate parts of the interrogated were lowered there, and then began to slowly move. I talked about the "Witch's Chair", the executioners invented a special version of it for men, when they were seated on a seat, where the thorns were fixed in such a way that they pierced the scrotum and penis. Often during interrogation, the executioner simply pressed on the intimate organs of the tortured, stringing them on thorns, trying to achieve confession.

Just like women, men were crushed and burned on their nipples, and weights were hung from them. I will not talk about such devices as a "crocodile" and a toothed crusher, specially invented by the executioners of the Inquisition to torture men.

In Stalin's torture chambers, the torture of "pushing the balls" was popular. The man was undressed below the waist, the guards pressed his arms and legs to the floor, spreading them apart, and the investigator with the toe of his boot (or an elegant shoe) pressed on the scrotum, increasing the pressure until the man confessed everything. Former Minister of State Security A. Abakumov, giving testimony, said "no one could stand this, it was only necessary not to overdo it, otherwise it would be difficult to bring him to trial later." Women did not disdain such an occupation. The most terrible executioner in the Leningrad NKVD in the 1937-40s was a certain "Sonya Golden Leg". This pretty 19-year-old girl managed to get the testimony she needed from anyone. She ordered that the arrested be crucified naked on the table, tied him to his legs and began to press with his foot on the genitals. But she did not spare women, girls, if she came across any, without looking at their age, she deprived her of virginity with a thick iron pin. Interrogating one 18-year-old student of the conservatory, very beautiful, she tied her naked to the waist to a chair, laid her breasts on the board of the table, stood on the table herself and pressed her chest with a sharp heel, turned one of her nipples into mush.

The German Gestapo liked to inject acid through a catheter into the bladder of the accused, causing wild pain. In our time, this method has been adopted by the Italian mafia and Arab terrorists.

It was popular and remains to this day hanging the interrogated by the intimate organs or jerking by the rope attached to them. As one of the witnesses against South Africa, heard by the International Tribunal in 1980, described: “... once Major Gaaz and Lieutenant Stevens tied copper wire to my genitals, the other end was tied to the doorknob. Stevens lit a blowtorch and held it to my face , I moved away, the wire pulled tight and I lost consciousness. They poured water over me and everything was repeated several times. Gaaz said something to me, but I screamed so much in pain that I could not hear anything. "

Let's move on to the fair sex. The cruelty of the executioners could not soften not the age of the accused, nor the female beauty. I have already talked in other sections about how the interrogators "made happy" women over the past centuries. It talks about breast press, breast ripper, Spanish spider, Spanish donkey, Jewish chair, creepy vaginal pear; about torture specially invented to inflict pain on a woman's breasts

Knowing perfectly the most tender places of a woman - her breasts and crotch, the executioners invented more and more ways to inflict as much suffering on their victim as possible. So there was torture with a phallus or "a member of Satan." It was rough, often deliberately seated with sharp edges, thorns or petals that made it look like a bump. The name "member of Satan" comes from the medieval superstition of priests that the devil has a scaly member and causes severe pain during an act of love. So the executioners with force drove this object into the vagina of the interrogated, roughly jerked it back and forth, twisted, this atrocious instrument, especially if it was covered with scales that did not allow it to be easily pulled back, tore the walls of the unfortunate woman's vagina to shreds.

The genitals of the accused were burned with fire, poured over with boiling water, as it was said in "exposure to heat and cold." At all times they liked to burn the nipples of the interrogated with a red-hot iron or fire. The terrible pain made most people confess. In the 1456 Code of Laws it was said, "to whip a wife without work, her tits need to be baked hot, then he will say everything." Like men, women were beaten in the groin, and in Latin American countries, the favorite method of the police is to kick a woman's lower abdomen.

Such a blow causes a bruised bladder and involuntary urination. The girl instantly turns from a proud beauty into a frightened prisoner trembling with shame.

In conclusion, we can say that no matter what method the executioners come up with, its essence remains the same, with terrible pain to force them to admit everything they need. One need not even think about the objectivity of such an interrogation.

As I said: to be continued ...

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