Medieval Torture Equipments

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

I came a cross a story with the torture device "The Pear Of Anguish".
I really don't Know if people in medieval era had all the time to come up with brutal torture equipments to be used on people and am happy i wasn't born in those dark ages,and half of those devices had church innovations involvement,and i don't enjoy any form of torture in novels or literature.
Ps: Don't search anything concerning the above device.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Humans are great at inventing unique ways to hurt and kill each other.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Not as bad as white torture.

 

[Daitengu]

I get you. Simply because in the Victorian era, it was common for "oddities" to be popular. Which creates a market that creative forgers fill with a bunch of fake junk with good stories to sell them.

 

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

Humans are great at inventing unique ways to hurt and kill each other.

Like now we have the nukes......

Not as bad as white torture.

A sinister method..... around 2021 i saw a trend where people though it was good to try this,but i guess it went down it never got on social media much.

I get you. Simply because in the Victorian era, it was common for "oddities" to be popular. Which creates a market that creative forgers fill with a bunch of fake junk with good stories to sell them.

Definitely

 

[Cannight]

As long as it isn't the Judas Cradle, I think it's okay

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

I came a cross a story with the torture device "The Pear Of Anguish".
I really don't Know if people in medieval era had all the time to come up with brutal torture equipments to be used on people and am happy i wasn't born in those dark ages,and half of those devices had church innovations involvement,and i don't enjoy any form of torture in novels or literature.
Ps: Don't search anything concerning the above device.

The pear of anguish, also known as choke pear or mouth pear, is a device of DISPUTED use invented in the early modern period.

 

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

As long as it isn't the Judas Cradle, I think it's okay

Yikes whoever invented this is in hell

 

[Lloyd]

A lot of the more ridiculous torture methods are fake or almost never used. Its basically just enlightenment era propaganda against the middle ages.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Waterboarding is just a more humane Witch Test.

Not sure what it's called, but people getting bound to horses with their arms and legs and then letting those horses run in different directions.

 

[LilRora]

There is a LOT of really, really inhumane torture devices from medieval times. Some popular ones like the iron maiden (that one, interestingly, wasn't even used in medieval times against popular belief) aren't nearly the worst out there. However, most of them weren't normalized nor popular; they were far too gruesome to be used used publicly, and it was rare for them to be useful for torture.

The main purpose of executions was not just getting rid of criminals, but also, or even mainly, making an example out of them and satisfying people's anger. Things like gallows and chopping blocks were a lot more common for that. Not nearly as gruesome, simpler and more straightforward, plus way cheaper.

 

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

There is a LOT of really, really inhumane torture devices from medieval times. Some popular ones like the iron maiden (that one, interestingly, wasn't even used in medieval times against popular belief) aren't nearly the worst out there. However, most of them weren't normalized nor popular; they were far too gruesome to be used used publicly, and it was rare for them to be useful for torture.

The main purpose of executions was not just getting rid of criminals, but also, or even mainly, making an example out of them and satisfying people's anger. Things like gallows and chopping blocks were a lot more common for that. Not nearly as gruesome, simpler and more straightforward, plus way cheaper.

Yeah some of those devices where used in dungeons against criminals or some poor people who got on the wrong side of someone powerful etc....they weren't popular in public that's why they may seeing abit exaggerated in today's world

Waterboarding is just a more humane Witch Test.

Not sure what it's called, but people getting bound to horses with their arms and legs and then letting those horses run in different directions.

Even the mongols used this i think.

A lot of the more ridiculous torture methods are fake or almost never used. Its basically just enlightenment era propaganda against the middle ages.

Well some may be exaggerated but there are some truth about the methods, but i agree there are propaganda in most of the cases involving them.

 

[Sergeandgreen]

As long as it isn't the Judas Cradle, I think it's okay

Pear of anguish and judas cradle are quite similar. But i think after a certain amount of pain, the shame cause by being a fictim of thos emethods becomes negible. And there are certainly more painful ways to torture and kill.
Also, most of those tools are only rumoured to have been used for those things. So, at least we can assume that they weren't common if they were used at all.

 

[georgelee5786]

We haven't improved any, we just use new forms of torture

 

[Sergeandgreen]

There is a LOT of really, really inhumane torture devices from medieval times. Some popular ones like the iron maiden (that one, interestingly, wasn't even used in medieval times against popular belief) aren't nearly the worst out there. However, most of them weren't normalized nor popular; they were far too gruesome to be used used publicly, and it was rare for them to be useful for torture.

The main purpose of executions was not just getting rid of criminals, but also, or even mainly, making an example out of them and satisfying people's anger. Things like gallows and chopping blocks were a lot more common for that. Not nearly as gruesome, simpler and more straightforward, plus way cheaper.

I think you don't use those torture devices openly because it could cause some people to feel sympathy

We haven't improved any, we just use new forms of torture

Well, there were some experiments that tested the human psyche quite throughly. Not to mention the physical harm. Just google Unit 731 to see one of the more famous example of how things like that were tested. And people improved the vivisectomy to let the victim stay alive as long as possible. So, i would argue we also improved the techniques.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I mean, I like the chinese finger torture method.

Zanzhi - Wikipedia

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Oh. These torture methods has make me relive my childhood dreams.

Iron chair - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[RecursiveDescent]

Let's see, there's putting you in a metal bull and boiling you alive.

Sewing you inside a sack with a bunch of animals then thrown into water to drown while being attacked.

Tying you to the top of a wooden pole, covering you with wax and then lighting the bottom on fire so you slowly burn to death like a candle. (romans had noisy candles, better go to the party late if you want to avoid the screaming)

And sending you floating down the river and force fed as you poop yourself and attract bugs and stuff until you die from infection or something else.

They had just as much genius as any other era, the reason you don't know of it is because it was all dedicated to killing each other.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Milk and Honey

 

[Anonjohn20]

Many of these torture devices (the pear of anguish, iron maiden, judas cradle, etc) were all made by con men in the late 18th century. They made stories of these fake devices to sell them to museums or collectors looking for oddities.

 

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

We haven't improved any, we just use new forms of torture

Well as some said humans are very innovative when it comes to weapons or methods to kill each other.

Pear of anguish and judas cradle are quite similar. But i think after a certain amount of pain, the shame cause by being a fictim of thos emethods becomes negible. And there are certainly more painful ways to torture and kill.
Also, most of those tools are only rumoured to have been used for those things. So, at least we can assume that they weren't common if they were used at all.

Certainly the devices were used in the dark out of public.

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