Once the victim was locked inside, they'd light a fire under the bull, slowly roasting the victim inside. The Brazen Bull was a bronze hollow bull that could fit a person in it. Perillos of Athens designed it for Phalaris of Sicily as a new means of executing criminals. Philosophy wasn't the only strong suit of the ancient Greeks they dabbled in sadism too. But that wasn't all - if the victims didn't answer the interrogators' questions, they'd stomp on their tummies and run horses over them. Speaking of shit, the 'Swedish drink' method involved forcing the victim to drink dangerous amounts of foul manure/urine/excreta, thus making the stomach bloat up to painful levels. Instead they were told, they could loot and plunder the regions they marched through, thus making life pretty shitty for non-combatants. The Swedish soldiers and mercenaries didn't receive any pay for fighting for their lords. Swedish DrinkĪlso called Schwedentrunk, this was the name given by German victims of the torture during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). This would start out as normal tickling but then the pain that followed would be extreme. A variation of this in the Roman camps involved dipping the victim's feet in salt solution and then have a goat lick the bottom of the feet. This used to be a common occurrence if the victim belonged to the royal or any other influential family. In medieval China, especially during the reign of the Han dynasty, sometimes you'd have to torture someone for interrogation without actually leaving any scars. As the torturer/executioner, you'd cut open the back of the victim and expose his/her lungs by twisting the ribs outwards to make them look like wings. While the actual accuracy of this method of torture and execution is shrouded in mystery, the blood eagle has been mentioned in Norse literature. It was also called the nightwatch because when pressure is applied to certain parts of the body, the person cannot fall asleep. With the downward pressure caused by the victim's body, the muscles around the orifice would eventually tear thereby impaling the victim. You'd place the waist harness (attached to the ropes) around the victim and then slowly lower him/her onto the pyramid shaped seat with the pointy top inserted into their anus or vagina. No, seriously, if you're easily rattled, reading further might not be the best idea.īut for those who are still interested, here's a list of some of the most gruesome torture (mostly followed by execution) methods ever recorded. While impaling people or crucifying them or even laying them on a torture rack was pretty common in history, there have been other methods that are so screwed up that simply reading about them might make you shudder. Torture was a popular way of getting people to reveal information or confess to crimes (which they sometimes did not commit).
But not everyone had the gift of subterfuge.
Before Google search or truth or dare became a mainstream thing, people used other methods to extract information.
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