Losing your ears or nose
So this kind of punishment was what you might call the most severe kind of justice for smaller crimes.
In parts of Europe, you might lose your nose for something called pandering, which was basically Middle Ages pimping. In fact, taking a nose or the ears happened a lot for many crimes in the past because it was a way to let others know you had transgressed. You would walk the rest of your life with a mark of shame for the pair of anguish. This punishment would also not cause immediate death, but it would result in severe pain and often a slow death from the injury.
Hamstringing
(Crippling)
this was basically a way of crippling a person or making them lame. As might have been said in the past. What would happen is the person, often a prisoner, would have all the tendons cut in the hamstring muscles and this would effectively prevent them from ever walking again.
You can find at least one example of this punishment in the book, The Roman History of Mianus Marcellinus to foot roasting.
As you all know, the soles of the feet are very sensitive, and for that reason they’ve been the victims of torture. Throughout the ages. There is evidence of foot roasting in ancient Roman times and also evidence. And it happened during the Spanish Inquisition. This might also cripple a person to some extent
That roasting was extreme and it said the bones of his feet charred and crumbled apart.
screws
the thumb screw, foot, screw or leg screw. You can find evidence of the worst, the head screw, but there’s also some evidence of the genital screw we’re just talking about visus bigger for the head, smaller for the thumb. As for the leg or feet, they’re sometimes called boots.
Once a person was wearing one when they were tight, there was a possibility, depending on the offense and what was said during the interrogation of whatever was inside being crushed into small pieces.
In one book discussing these devices used in Scotland, the legs screw was said to cause the most severe and cruel pain in the world.
Even having your toes or thumb screwed would no doubt cause extreme pain. But unlike some other tortures we’ve talked about, the use of such screws was quite common and it seems not always employed for major crimes.