Here we see the witchfinder and his aide applying their
hardware on a poor girl accused of witchcraft . She doesn't have the slightest
chance but doesn't know it yet ....
| Executioners, witchfinders, judges and other law enforcement
personnel never had any trouble or lack of ingeniosity for inventing always
more cruel devices to get the "truth" out of their victims or just to punish
them out of sheer sadism .
Here we see the witchfinder and his aide applying their
hardware on a poor girl accused of witchcraft . She doesn't have the slightest
chance but doesn't know it yet ....
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"Now confess !"
The stretching rack - one of the most famous torture devices
In the following documentation we will try to show some survey of the somewhat heteroclit collection of torture devices and punishment methods . Some ( like the stretching rack) were used exclusively for interrogation purposes others were also applied as a corporal punishment ordered by a judge ( like the whips and branding irons)
I am aware that this documentation will be far from being exhaustive
and I rely to my readers for providing me with additional information
Branding Irons
Breast Ripper
Cage
Cat's paw
Cradle
Chastity belt
Headcrusher and headscrew
Interrogation chair
Iron Maiden
Ladder
Pear
Pendulum
Punishing iron collar
Punishing shoes
Stretching rack
Spanish boots
Spanish Spiders
Torture cross
Thumbscrews
Water torture
Whips and floggers
Each of these topics will be linked to a separate page , where the different devices will be discussed in detail !
