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THE DELICATE AND EXQUISITE ART OF TORTURE - revisited

December 23rd 2009 01:03
The medieval rack torture device
I did a post nearly three years ago about the art of torture and execution devices, but my blog colleague Natalina over at Extraordinary Intelligence has posted a more comprehensive, and most delectably heinous array of medieval torture contraptions and devices that will have even the most hardened sadists salivating and champing at the bit!

These wood and metal inventions are enough to fuel a thousand nightmares of cruelty and agony. Click here to view Natalina’s witty and informative post, and exquisite (read: appallingly inhumane) collection of medieval torture/execution devices.

Keelhauling
One of my "favourites" not mentioned in Natalina's post (nor my original) was a corporal (?!) punishment practiced during Middle Ages by the Dutch and British navy: keelhauling. The unfortunate victim was tied to a rope looped tightly under the ship, and then thrown in the water and dragged under the ship and up the other side. The result was either severe injuries from being scraped against the barnacles on the ship's keel or death from drowning. I'm sure the victim, whether barely alive or dead, was then thrown to the sharks who'd gathered from the smell of blood in the water. Nice.

To quote the most famous sadist of them all: “Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”
Keelhauling spectacle
The Keelhauling of the Ship's Surgeon of Admiral Jan van Nes

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Comment by Natalina

December 23rd 2009 06:25


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Hey thanks for the shout out Bryn! Indeed it was a somewhat delicious topic to discuss, which I suppose makes me a little sick in the cranium. Its ok. I've accepted it

And I just read your original post on torture that I had somehow missed until now. It is a fantastic post per usual. I didn't know you'd tackled the topic before, but I should have known, given that you are a bit sick in the old cranium yourself my friend! lol

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