Most Disturbing torturing Devices

Some of the worst things people have done to each other in the name of punishment.

Some punishments are justifiable while some are utterly inhumane.

This particular instrument of horrifyingly inhumane torture could be said to have been cooked up by creative folks.

1. Bronze Bull or the Sicilian Bull

This form of execution was created by the ancient Greeks. It had different names and it might also be called the Bronze Bull or the Sicilian Bull.

In ancient Egypt to the leader Alexander the Great used it and quite a lot of it is still intact, but some parts in this series are missing or in fragments.

In a book about the Bronze bull, Mr. Squillace wrote much about ,it and this is what he said. The guy who invented it was an inventor by trade and he was named Perils of Athens. It said before he built this thing somewhere between five seventy and 554 B.C., he actually pitched the idea he was what you might call “a creative technologist” of the past, looking for some funding.

He got that funding from a man named Vallauris, the tyrant of arrogance. Given his frightening title, you wouldn’t be surprised to hear that this man was said to be very cruel in some accounts of his life. It’s written that he enjoyed torture and even went so far as to eat children. We should say that Encyclopedia Britannica cites research that says he wasn’t as cruel as some people have written. Whatever the case, it seems he commissioned the building of the Brazened book. So how did one perish in a brazen book? Well, it was certainly a thing conjured up by a creative yet sadistic imagination. It was said to be the same size of a book, but shaped from bronze with an opening where a man could enter the thing. A fire was then lit under the bull and the man would slowly roast to death. But get this, it was made so that when the man was howling in agony, his shrieks would emanate through specially distorted pipes built into the bull.

 So the impression an onlooker would get was an animal bellowing in pain. This might have been the fun part for someone like the tyrant of aggregates. The smoke would come out through the holes in the bull's nose and that nose was filled with incense. Since burning bodies don't smell so good, the bones that were left would then be turned into bracelets -So the story goes. When the idea was pitched by police, it said he said this to the tyrant Volaris. The occupant will shriek and roar in unremitting agony and this cries will come to you through the pipes as the tenderest, most pathetic, most melodious of bailiwicks. Your victim will be punished and you will enjoy the music. 

When's the bowl was finished, Volaris told the inventor to get inside the thing to test out the sound. But some sources say he lit the fire and the inventor died there. Others say he pulled them out, but then killed him by pushing him over a cliff. It seems for all his hard work, perils was killed, but perhaps not because Vallauris didn't want to pay, even though vllaurus is said to have been keen on cruelty. It's written that he said this to police after hearing about the execution method. His words revolted me. I loathed the thought of such ingenious cruelty and resolve to punish the artificer in kind. I said to him, "If your art can really produce this effect, get inside yourself and pretend to roar and we'll see whether the pipes will make such music".

As you described, by the way, it's written that upon his downfall, Vallauris was also killed inside the bull. So that's inventor and commissioner, both killed at their own hands. In a way, word of the brazen bull was passed down and histories were written. And they linked the device with these two men, the inventor and the tyrant. But the history of the bull doesn't stop there. The Romans, it said, had a taste for the brazen bull. 

We might look at the story of a man named St. Eustace. It said he became a martyr after being killed in the second century. The Romans were punishing many Christians before they themselves converted to Christianity under the Emperor Constantine. But that was in the fourth century A.D. before a lot of Christian blood was spilled. And it seems a few Christians also got cooked to death inside a bronze animal. Saint Eustace was said to have been one of them before he converted to Christianity. He had served under a Roman emperor, but he saw the light, so to speak, when he had a vision one day which involved the stag and a crucifix.

 Most Christians might tell you that this man then lost everything, which was one of those tests of God. He lost his cash. His servants and his wife and kids were taken away from him by, of all things, a lion and a wolf. Yet his faith remained strong throughout. There are a few different stories as to what happened to this man, but some people will tell you he got his wealth back as well as his family. But. In the end, he, his wife and children were all roasted to death in the brazen bull on the orders of Emperor Hadrian. We looked at some Christian sources and they seemed to back that up, although they don't say his family got the treatment, too. We also found this piece of Christian history written in the hundreds. It seems to suggest that when Justis and his family got roasted, they died. But some miracles did happen. This is from that text. The Holy Martyrs by Divine Power remained alive for three days, praising and blessing the great giver of life and death. At  last, when their voices ceased, the ball was opened and all four were found without life, but also without any injury to their bodies or garments. It's written that other Christians close to him at this time went the same way, for instance, a man known as Saint Antipas. This was written about him. They became enraged and dragged him to the temple of Artemis, and there they threw him into a glowing red hot copper or brazen metal bowl where they normally put their sacrifices to the idols to cast demons out of their own people.

 He loudly prayed God to receive his soul and strengthen the faith of the Christians and begged God to forgive those who were inflicting on him his torment. He then departed as peacefully as if he fell asleep. We should say that there are a lot of people who don't believe these stories and relate them more to legend than truth. It's not for us to say what's true or not, but most serious historians will at least tell you that the stories from the more surprising beginnings in Greece to Christian martyrs not feeling any pain while being roasted are hard to verify. What is very much true is that stories of the brazen bull have been passed down throughout the ages.

 And those manuscripts can still be read today. By the way, while you might see a brazen bull in a museum in the world, it won't be the real thing, only a depiction of one. 

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