Machinery of Evil

a. chair questioned.
Armchair interrogation used in Central Europe. In Nuremberg and Fegensburge to 1846 were regularly held preliminary investigation of its use. A naked prisoner was seated on a chair in that position, that at the slightest movement in his skin pierced studs. Usually torture lasted for several hours, and butchers often agonizing torment intensified victim, piercing her limbs, using forceps or other instruments of torture. These seats have different shapes and sizes, but they were all equipped with spikes and immobilization of the victim means.

2. handsaw.
About her there is nothing to say except that it caused the death even worse than death at the stake. Cannon ruled by two men who sawed convicted, suspended upside down with legs.
tied to two pillars. The very position, causing blood flow to the.
brain, forced the victim to experience unprecedented torments for the.
long time. This tool is used as a punishment for a variety of.
crime, but particularly like it was used for.
homosexuals and witches. We believe that this tool is widely.
French judges have used against witches, who became pregnant by.
...

3. throne.
This tool was created as a pillory in the form of a chair, and.
sarcastically called the Throne. The victim was placed upside down, and her legs.
strengthened with the help of wooden blocks. This torture was used the.
popular among the judges who wish to follow the letter of the law. In fact,.
Legislation governing the use of torture, allowed to use the.
Tron only once during the interrogation. But most judges circumvent this.
Typically, just calling the next session of the continuation of the same first.
Use of the Throne is allowed to declare one session, even if it.
lasted for 10 days. As the use of the Throne did not leave irremovable.
marks on the victim's body, it is very suitable for long-term.
use. It should be noted that simultaneously with this torture.
prisoners ...

4. The daughter of a janitor or a stork.
Use of the term ... to about 1650. The same name to this instrument of torture was given L. A. Muratori, in his book ... The origin is even more strange name, ... Whatever the origin of the name, this tool is an excellent example of a great variety of systems of coercion, which were used during the Inquisition. The position of the victim has been carefully thought out. Within a few minutes a body position led to severe muscle spasms in the abdomen and anus. Further spasms began to spread in the chest, neck, arms and legs, becoming more painful, particularly at the initial appearance of spasm. After some time, tied to the Stork moved from the simple experience of suffering to a state of complete madness. Often, while the victim suffered in this terrible position, it further tortured with hot iron, and in other ways. Iron shackles etched into the flesh of the victim and cause gangrene, and sometimes death.

5. Chair witches.
Chair Inquisition, known as witches chair, highly regarded as a good remedy for silent women accused of witchcraft. This is especially common tool widely used by the Austrian Inquisition. The chairs were of different sizes and shapes, all equipped with.
spikes, with handcuffs, blocks for fixation of the victim and, often, with.
iron seats, which if necessary can be.
heat the. We found evidence of the use of tools for.
slow- killing. In 1693 in the Austrian city of Gutenberg Judge.
Wolf von Lampertish led process on charges of witchcraft Mary.
Vukinets, 57 years old. It was planted in a chair for eleven days, witches and.
nights, while the executioners burned her feet with a hot iron.
( insletrlaster ). Maria Vukinets died under torture, having descended from the mind of the pain, but not.
confessed to the crime.

6. Number of ordinary.
Technology use is clear and without comment.

7. Rack - hanger.
This is undoubtedly the most common cap, and it is often used in the first proceeding, considered as a slight variant of torture of the accused 's hands tied behind their backs, and the other end of the rope was thrown across the ring winch victim or left in such a position, or strongly and continuously pull the rope. Often, the victim was tied to the notes of extra weight, and body torn with forceps, such as, for example, ... The judges thought that the witches are many ways to know the magic that allows them to quietly endure torture, and therefore can not always get the recognition we can refer to a series of processes in Munich in the early XVII century in regard to the eleven people. Six of them are constantly tortured with an iron boot, one of the women suffered the dismemberment of the breast, the following five wheel, and one impaled. They, in turn, was told by another twenty-one man, who immediately questioned Tetenvange. Among the new one has been charged with a very respectable family. His father died in prison, his mother, after it was tested on the rack eleven times, confessed all, what she was accused. A daughter, Agnes, twenty-one years, stoically endured the test on the rack with the extra weight, but did not recognize his guilt, and only said that she forgives his executioners and accusers. Only a few days of continuous testing in the torture chamber, she was told about the full recognition of her mother. After a suicide attempt, she confessed all the terrible crimes, including the co-existence with the Devil with the age of eight, in devouring the hearts of thirty people, participation in the Sabbat, that caused ouryu and renounced the Lord. Mother and daughter were sentenced to be burned at the stake.

8. Vigil or Cradle Guard.
According to the inventor, Ippolito Marsili, the introduction of Vigil was a turning point in the history of torture. The current system of obtaining a confession does not involve personal injury. There are no broken vertebrae, inverted ankle or fractured joints, the only substance that is suffering - a victim of nerves. The idea of ​​torture was to keep the victim awake for as long as possible, it was a kind of torture insomnia. ... The victim is lifted to the top of the pyramid and then gradually lowered. The top of the pyramid was to penetrate into the region of the anus, testicles, or falcon, but if a woman had been tortured - the vagina. The pain was so severe that it is often accused of losing consciousness. If this happened, the procedure was delayed until the victim does not wake up. In Germany, the ...

9. roaster. In the past, there was no association, ... The executioners were free to choose any, from their point of view of appropriate means to obtain confessions. Often they are used and broiler. The victim was tied to the bars and then ... And life went on.

10. water torture.
In order to best carry out the procedure for the torture of the accused was placed at one of the species reared, or on a special table with a large rising middle part. After the victim's hands and feet were tied to the edges of the table, the executioner was about to work in one of several ways. One of these methods is that the victim was forced through a funnel swallow large amounts of water, then beaten on the stomach inflated and arched. Another form is provided for placement in the throat of the victim rag tubes through which water is slowly poured, leading to bloating and strangulation of the victim. If this were not enough, the tube pulled out, causing internal injuries, and then inserted again and the process repeated. Sometimes tortured with cold water. In this case, the defendant was lying on the table for hours naked under a stream of cold water. It is interesting to note that this form of torture was regarded as mild, and confessions obtained in this manner, the court accepted as voluntary, and no data is accused of torture.

11. Maid of Nuremberg.
The idea of ​​mechanized torture was born in Germany, and nothing to do with the fact that Nuremberg has the origin of the virgin. It got its name because of the resemblance with the Bavarian girl, and also because of its prototype was developed and first used in the secret dungeon of the court in Nuremberg. Accused was placed in a coffin where the body of the unfortunate puncture with sharp spines that are located so that no vital organs had not been touched, and the agony lasted for a long time. The first case of a trial using the ... It has been described in detail by Gustav Freytag in his book \\ 'bilder aus der deutschen vergangenheit \\'. The penalty suffered a guilty of forgery, which suffered a sarcophagus inside three days.

12. breaking on the wheel.
A very popular system, as torture and execution, applied only to a charge of witchcraft. Typically, the procedure was divided into two phases, both quite painful. The first consisted of fractures of the greater part of bones and joints with a small wheel called a grinding wheel on the outside and fitted with many spikes. The second ball is developed on a case penalty. It was assumed that the victim, wounded and mutilated in this way, just like a rope slip between the spokes of the wheel on a long pole, where it will expect to death. A popular variation of this combined the penalty the wheel and the burning at the stake - in this case, death came quickly. The procedure was described in the materials of one of the trials in the Tyrol. In 1614, a tramp named Wolfgang Zelveyzer of Gastein, convicted of intercourse with the devil and nasylanii storm, was sentenced to Leyntsa both the wheel and burned at the stake.

13. Press the extremities.

>14. Press the skull. This is a medieval device, it should be noted, was highly prized, especially in northern Germany. Its function was quite simple: the victim's chin placed on a wooden or an iron pillar, and the cover of the device is screwed onto the victim's head. First found themselves overwhelmed by the first teeth and jaws, and then, as the pressure grew, the brain tissue began to flow out of the skull. Over time, this tool has lost its value as a murder weapon and became widely used as an instrument of torture. In some Latin American countries are very similar device is used and is still. Despite the fact that the cover of the device, and the lower bearing lined with soft material, which leaves no traces on the victim, the device gives a prisoner in a state of ...

15. Impalement.
Impalement, one of the most fierce and barbaric methods of execution, is probably the Assyrian- Babylonian origin. Common in the Middle East, penalty applied during the wars with the Ottoman Empire infidels ... The condemned were stripped naked, and then planted into thin sharpened stakes. Exposing the walls of the fortress, executed painfully dying sometimes within a few days. This was to intimidate the besieged. Especially widely used impalement Tepets Vlad (the famous Count Dracula ), who executed thousands of Turks after the victory at the Battle of Wallachia.

16. pillory.
Shame was a common way of punishment at all times and under any social system. The convicted person was placed in the pillory for some time, from several hours to several days. Falling outside the period of punishment bad weather compounded the situation of victims, and increased the flour, which is probably seen as ... Shame on the one hand, it could be considered a relatively mild way of punishment, in which only the guilty were exhibited in a public place to public ridicule. On the other hand, chained to the pillory were completely exposed to the ...

17. Violin gossips. It could be wood or iron, for one or two women. It was an instrument of torture with a soft, having more psychological and symbolic meaning. There is no documentary evidence that the use of this device resulted in physical injury. Used it mainly to be guilty of defamation or insulting the person, guki and neck of the victim were fixed in small holes, so that was provided punished in prayer. You can imagine the suffering of victims of circulatory disorders and pain in the elbow when the device is worn for a long time, sometimes for several days.

18. prayer cross.
Violent tool used to commit a criminal situation in the cross. Credible assertion that the cross was invented in Austria in the XVI-XVII centuries. This follows from the book ... A very similar model that was in the tower of the castle in Salzburg (Austria), mentioned in one of the most detailed descriptions.

19. rack. This is one of the most common instruments of torture found in the historical descriptions. Rack used throughout Europe. Typically, this tool was a big table with legs or without, which was forced to go to the convict, and his arms and legs were fixed with wooden planks. Immobilized in this way, the victim of ... The rotating drum is used for tensioning chain is not in all versions of its hind legs, but only in the most ingenious ... The executioner would cut up the muscles of the victim in order to speed up the final rupture of the tissues. Victim's body stretched out more than 30 cm before rupture. Sometimes the victim tightly tied to a rack to make it easier to use other methods of torture, such as tongs, pinching nipples and other sensitive body parts, burns with a hot iron, etc. [/ center].

structural component.

21. garrotte.
This instrument was used in the execution of Spain, until recently,. The last officially recorded executions with Garrote was made in 1975. Bomber seated on a chair with her ​​hands tied behind their backs, iron collar rigidly fixed the head position. During the execution of the executioner tightened the screw, and an iron wedge slowly entered into the skull of the convicted person, leading to his death. Another version is more common in recent years - strangulation by a metal wire. This method of execution is often shown in movies, especially movies about espionage.

22. cervical trap.
Arms, which is used by police and prison overseers, has unique functions - to control and repression of unarmed prisoners. Of certain interest is cervical trap - a ring with nails on the inner side and with a device resembling a trap on the outside. Any prisoner who tried to hide in the crowd, it was easy to stop using this device. After being caught by the neck he could not escape, and he was forced to follow a supervisor without fear that he will resist. Such tools are still used in some countries, and in most cases they are equipped with electric shock devices.

23. Iron gag.
The tool was used to stop the screams of the victim, and pester the inquisitors prevented their conversation with each other inside the ring iron pipe firmly thrust into the throat of the victim, and the collar bolt locked in the back. The hole allows air to pass through, but if you want it you can plug your finger and cause choking. This device is often used in relation to the condemned to be burned at the stake, especially on a large public ceremony, called the Auto de fe, when heretics were burned dozens of. Iron Gag allowed to avoid the situation where the convicts drowned his cries sacred music. Giordano Bruno, guilty of being too progressive, was burned at Rome in the Campo dei Fiori in 1600 with an iron gag in his mouth. Gag was provided with two spines, one of which pierced tongue out under his chin, and the second shattered the sky.

24. Razryvatel chest. No comments.

Genre: Documentary, Short Film.
Year: 2010.
Released: U.S., UK / Discovery Channel.
Directed by: Sheym Belz.
Description: The ' Evil Machines ' - a documentary film in which you are familiar with a wide variety of devices that mankind has used to torture and execute.


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