2.) STRETCHING ON THE RACK
It’s the Middle Ages and times have been tough for a peasant, drought in the subsequent poor harvests have devastated your people and widespread famine is around the corner. To make matters worse, taxes have been raised because your rulers are warring with other rulers. You’ve had enough of watching on as your children starve. And as they stretch your body on the rack, you admit to more than you ever did, which was only get some folks together to talk about unfairness.
You’ve been branded a traitor, treasonous, and the worst is going to happen to you. You have to be stretched on the rack.
The rack is a torture device that has a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly above the ground,with rollers at both ends of the contraption. The condemned ankles are fastened to one roller and the wrists are chained together.
As the iquestionings starts, a handle and the ratchet mechanism attached to the top roller are used to gently retract the chains, slowly increasing the strain on the prisoner’s shoulders, hips, knees, and elbows and causing excruciating pain. By means of pulleys and levers this roller could be rotated on its own axis, that is, straining the ropes until the victim suffers joints were dislocated or detached and eventually separated, they’re usually alive after this.
Additionally, if muscle fibres are stretched excessively, they lose their ability to contract, rendering them ineffective and disfunctional
Written details by a witness of this torture said the most disheartening thing about this kind of torture was the loud popping noises made by snapping cartilages, ligaments and bones.
Another witness wrote that it was One powerful method for putting pressure upon prisoners was to force them to watch someone else being subjected to the rack. rack.
When you are stretched on the rack, You admitte to being somewhat disgruntled about watching your children die in front of you and not being able to get your hands on their most cherished commodity bread.
They’re all too familiar with peasant revolts of the past and any kind of insubordination will be dealt with seriously. That meant a medley of tried and tested cruel and unusual punishment for you as you informed your torturers of your guilt and took a few other peeved peasants down with you.
3.) THE IRON MAIDEN
The iron maiden is a torture device, consisting of an iron cabinet with a hinged front and spikey interior for humans of course
a box that looks a bit like a coffin but in human shape, with spikes, and when it’s closed all those spikes pierces all over the victim’s body.
The Iron Maiden, as well as being the name of a British heavy metal band who wrote songs with names such as The Number of the Beast was indeed a box with spikes on the inside. It looks something like the box.
Iron maidens exist and they have been around for quite some time. A few of them are now artifacts that people can take selfies with in museums. At the same time, Google Glass and T-Mobile exist and no one uses them much either.
The first time anyone mentioned an Iron Maiden being used, much like the one we’re talking about today, was when a German philosopher by the name of Johann Philips, even Keys talked about one. He wrote that in 1915, a coin forger in Nuremberg had gone to bed for eternity in one.
He was writing in the late 18th century and no one seems to know how he knew about iron maidens. Well, he also studied ancient history and stories have been passed down from ancient times regarding people being put to death in a rather uncomfortable box. Maybe the philosopher embellished those boxes in his account for good reason. There are skeptics because after he wrote about those things, people started making them. In the nineteenth century, making iron maidens was all the rage. And that’s why there are so many of them around today in museums.
The earliest Iron Maiden was actually made in Nuremberg in one or two after Steven Keyes’s account. That one was destroyed in the Second World War.
In the Middle Ages and after there were methods of torture, we find utterly repellent today and there were gruesome ways people were executed.