Ancient Form of Torture

[InThePathOfTitans]

I was reading some stuff on ancient biological warfare, and came across an ancient form of torture.

"Though not used for warfare, in ancient times (circa 1 bc) one form of execution/torture was attaching a corpse to a live person. The person who carried the corpse would become a social outcast and die from sicknesses in about a week." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare

i question it, because its from wikipedia, and i cannot find any information about this. Does anyone know anything about this? What it was called?

[Kwinnie Bogan]

I have a feeling they fail to mention something along the likes of '..by bolting the corpse to the carrier's spine' or something, otherwise WTF.

[InThePathOfTitans]

yeah, its the craziest form of torture Ive heard of, anyone know anything of this?

[supperrfreek]

I think I heard about it once. I really should get a book of ancient forms of torture and punishment.

[T.K. Baha]

Why don't they just walk away take off the corpse and take a bath?

[ComradeAsh]

I once wore a dead mans head as a hat.

It worked well because he was fat.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

The Brass Bull / Brazen Bull is an experience I am thoroughly unenthusiastic about taking part in.

[DrGoogfan]

The Brass Bull / Brazen Bull is an experience I am thoroughly unenthusiastic about taking part in.

i saw that on discovery channel. ouch

[yawanur]

I really should get a book of ancient forms of torture and punishment.


Top 10 article-
brazen bull is number 10, the easiest way to go...>.<

http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/

[Metafire]

Top 10 article-
brazen bull is number 10, the easiest way to go...>.<

Lol! Like that's any better on a list of torture devices? Honestly, I don't know what I would pick if I had a choice of torture method.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Fuck that, I have to see which 9 methods could possibly be worse. *ker-lick*.

EDIT: :O

[DrGoogfan]

how about crusifixion

[Lulzar]

Yeah, I'd heard of all of those except the scathing. That seems like a pretty awful way to go, covered in your own shit and insects.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

^It's even worse than that. Merely covered in shit and insects? I'm there. This is a whole lot worse.

[Lord hang man]

Ew taht would smell as funky as my socks and be twice as disgusting.

[supperrfreek]

Scaphism is definitely the worst thing on the list.

[Metafire]

Scaphism is definitely the worst thing on the list.

Can you imagine the stench a decomposing excrement-covered body would make?

It would suck so bad to have that done. You can't sleep 'cause there are maggots and bugs feasting off of you, and you're fucking covered in shit. Yeah. Fucking shit.

[DrGoogfan]

id still rather have that than being nailed to a cross with broken legs

[InThePathOfTitans]

i still think having a rotting, disease ridden corpse on your back until it kills you, is worse.

anyone know of this?

...still cant find anything.

[yawanur]

I agree

but I haven't found anything, mostly because I'm too afraid to look.

[yawanur]

"An addition… Toppling
To me, in a morbid sense of humor, is the funniest. The condemned would stand next to a large wall while it is pushed, and toppled on to them. If they survive it 7 times, they are set free."

[yawanur]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle

/thread

[DrGoogfan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle

/thread

fuck i want ur username.

[Unnecessary~surgery]

"What about that method of execution wherby a person was tied down when an upturned vase was placed on their bellies with rats inside. The vase was then heated using a fire, causing that rats to frantically scratch at your belly until they had burried inside you. I remember hearing about this as a torture method in the medievil period."

Unpleasent..

"The Vietnamese liked to use a form of staking to execute people, don’t know if they still do or not. But they’d plant bamboo and then tie the victim sitting over it. As you mentioned earlier because it grows so fast it would grow right through them. Only your version had them lying on the bamboo to go through their body. The version I’m speaking of was a little more gruesome and took a little longer for the vic to die."

Bamboo growing through your ballsack? Do not want :(

[yawanur]

fuck i want ur username.

Thanks?

[Unnecessary~surgery]

http://www.medievality.com/torture.html

some bad shit in there

[InThePathOfTitans]

the blood eagle is pretty intense.

but still, anyone know anything about the form of torture i described?

[yawanur]

nah sorry