Went to a torture museum. Dont click if you're easily grossed out technology

Went to a torture museum. Dont click if you're easily grossed out technology

For the bull one: they put the person inside a metal bull and essentially cooked them

I've seen people say that the pear one might not have been used for torture as there is no proof that it was used in

the olden days. Idk but that sounds like a nightmare. All of them do. SMH sawed in half s)

The little proof that it was used, was in the mouth, and not to break it, but to shut someone up in a very

unpleasant way, I believe.

Also, most depictions of it occur during the 16th and 17th centuries, long after the Middle Ages were over.

Iron Maiden's didn't appear until traveling oddity shows became popular in the 1800s.

Despite its reputation as a medieval instrument of torture, there is no evidence of the existence of iron maidens before the 19th century.

There are, however, ancient reports of the Spartan tyrant Nabis using a similar device around 200 B.C. for extortion and murder. The Abbasid vizier Ibn al-Zayyat is said to have createda "wooden oven-like chest that had iron spikes" for torture, which would ironically be used during his own.imprisonment and execution in 847.

Possible inspirations

The 19th-century iron maidens may have been constructed as probable misinterpretation of a medieval Schandmantel, which was made of

wood and metal but without spikes.  Inspiration for the iron maiden may also have come from the Carthaginian execution of Marcus Atilius

Regulus as recorded in Tertullian's "To the Martyrs" (Chapter 4) and Augustine of Hippo's Th City of God (1.15), in which the Carthaginians 'shut him into a tight wooden box, where he was forced to stand, spiked with the sharpest nails on all sides so that he could not lean in any direction without being pierced' or from Polybius' account of.Nabis of Sparta's deadly statue of his wife, the Iron

Apega (earliest form of the device)

No iirc there was a home sexual man who would use this to gag his lovers/victims. Hence the name "choke

pear" as opposed to "pear of anguish". Surely the idea of using it for torture would come full circle during that period and I'm sure it sparked all kinds of horrible.rumors among criminals and sadists alike.

We may never know for sure if it had been used in commercial torture but there's no doubt in my mind it was used on more than a few people over the centuries.

There are a large amount of torture devices that were made up by ppl in the enlightenment or later and then

said to have been used during the 'backwards and barbaric dark ages'. But they're just propaganda and

complete bs, usually to make particular religions or certain countries or historical figures look bad. Not to

say terrible stuff didn't happen, but they were essentially making stuff up and making the caricature of the dark

ages' that is a historical myth that exists to this day.

Read any actual historian of the middle ages and they all

despise that historical myth and depiction.  believe it's not used in that era on a regular basis but in another world somewhere someone used to slice people. So definitely nightmares are real buddy It revolves around the Kashmiri Pandits exodus during Kashmir Insurgency in 1990. One of the most heart-wrenching stories that came out during that period was the brutal rape and murder of a Kashmiri

Pandit Woman.

As per many reports, she was cut in half using a mechanical saw while she was still alive.

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