20 Most painful torture devices

[AtrainV]

http://thecontaminated.com/the-most-painfull-torture-devices-of-all-time/

Chances are the list is flawed, but that's not really what's important. Some of this stuff is pretty gut-wrenching. No pun intended. Well, a little intended.

[Fish]

I like how one of the responses began with "how can one person do this to another?" I think that somewhere between the definition and essence of "torture" lies the answer to that stupidly rhetorical question.

Also, my favorite one was missing from the list. I would have put the Brass Bull (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull) somewhere in the top 5:


...a brazen bull, made totally of brass, hollow, with a door in the side. The condemned was shut up in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became "yellow hot" and causing the person inside to quickly roast to death. So that 'nothing unseemly might spoil his feasting', Phalaris commanded that the bull be designed in such a way that its smoke rose in spicy clouds of incense. The head of the ox was designed with a complex system of tubes and stops so that the prisoner's screams were converted into sounds like the bellowing of an infuriated bull. It is also said that when the bull was reopened, the scorched bones of the remains shone like jewels and were made into bracelets.

:o

[Eggsactly!]

Bumpsactly! :mad:

[Lao Tzu]

Bumpsactly! :mad:

lol

[Cegstar]

The link didn't work for me.

[Eggsactly!]

The link didn't work for me.

Oldsactly! :mad:

[Cegstar]

Oldsactly! :mad:

I'm curious, do you think you're being funny, or just trying to be an idiot?

[Eggsactly!]

I'm curious, do you think you're being funny, or just trying to be an idiot?

Eggsactly! :mad:

[Cegstar]

Eggsactly! :mad:

I see. You're just an idiot.

[Fish]

The link didn't work for me.

I think this (http://readingshouts.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/most-painful-20-torture-devices-in-the-history/)is the original link

And here's some extra credit for ya:
http://www.listaholic.com/12-of-the-most-horrifying-torture-devices-in-history.html

[Cegstar]

Thanks. I actually ended up googling it and finding the article.

[Iskalla]

I'd have been happier to have never known about people being cooked inside giant bulls. :(

[PirateJoe]

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

[Lao Tzu]

I think this (http://readingshouts.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/most-painful-20-torture-devices-in-the-history/)is the original link

And here's some extra credit for ya:
http://www.listaholic.com/12-of-the-most-horrifying-torture-devices-in-history.html

Thanks for the relink. I was on this thread earlier and wondered about it.

[Sally Paradise]

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

...fanatical devotion to the pope... no, FOUR weapons...:mad:

[kelsokid18]

I could have lived life not knowing about these.

[Cegstar]

I could have lived life not knowing about these.

So could the people who experienced them.

[Space Ultra Guitar Case 3]

thank god for guns and a lack of modern creativity