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 somewhere in the top 5:
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...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.
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20 Most painful torture devices
