Nasty Bois
Limb Destroyers
Modern Torture
Controversial
100
victim was tied down and a rat in a cage or pot is placed opening side down on the person's torso. The cage or pot is then heated causing the rat to bury into the victim's body to escape the heat.
Rat Torture!
100
the thumbs are restrained and screws are slowly turned, crushing them.
Thumb screws. Pretty simple name, huh?
100
creates a drowning sensation by dripping water over a damp cloth draped onto a person's face
waterboarding!
100
consisting of a solid iron cabinet with a hinged front and spike-covered interior, sufficiently tall to enclose a human being.
Iron Maiden :)
200
The victim was sat on a sharp pyramid naked. Weights would be added to cause even more pain as the tip would slowly pierce their body. (Bonus points if you can name the other one with a similar style.)
The Judas Cradle (Bonus: Spanish Donkey)
200
Victim is bound by the wrists and ankles and slowly pulled apart. It's a well known method.
The Rack
200
What plant is used to grow quickly through a victim?
bamboo!
200
where the back was cut open, the ribs pulled apart and the lungs dragged out to look like wings.
Blood Eagle
300
Victim is attached to a rope by the wrists and ankles and dragged either along the ship or all the way around the bottom. If drowning didn't kill them the barnacles scraping along every inch of their body probably would. Sometimes if they survived they'd go for round two!
Keelhauling
300
the device inserted into an orifice and slowly cranked, causing the slices to open up inside the victim. (Extra points if you can say both names)
Pear of Anguish/Pope's Pear!
300
What color makes up everything in a sense deprivation room, driving said person to insanity.
white
300
what animal's likeness was used to stuff people inside and roast them alive.
the bull!
400
The skin is carefully cut to prevent immediate death from blood loss. Sometimes it's cut in a way to remove it all in one piece.
Flaying
400
Victim is strapped to a big wooden wheel. Multiple things can occur: the breaking of limbs or roasting.
The breaking wheel
400
What was the "Tucker Telephone" used for?
The ground wire would be connected to the prisoner's toe, while the hot end of the wire would be applied to the prisoner's genitals. Prison staff would then crank the phone generator, which would then send electrical currents shooting through the inmate's body.
400
Who was known to impale his victims and leave their bodies out?
Vlad the Impaler
500
A form of execution, among the ancient Persians, in which the victim is fastened into a hollow boat, force-fed and slathered in honey and milk and exposed to insects until the victim's death.
Scaphism! :D
500
What was this used for? ;)
To rip the breasts off of a woman.
500
When a person is captured they are often tied to a metal chair. Their arms and legs are then secured and the chair is tipped backwards and towards the ground. What country is this method named after?
Germany (German Chair)
500
This emperor punished devoted Christians by coating their strung bodies in pitch, oil, wax and other flammable materials before lighting their feet and using them as human candles.
Roman Emperor Nero