The Holy Mother Church is so concerned about the rights of a single sperm, woe to "disperse the seed! Showed a considerably lower sensitivity towards the poor human beings whose only fault was perhaps that he cursed because they had nothing to put under your teeth. The Inquisition was born in the twelfth century as an ecclesiastical court combined the cases against the Cathars and Waldensians. Over time, his task is more specific more in research and judge all heretics. The criterion by which a person is attributed to the crime of heresy was highly questionable and very often the charges were completely unfounded, however, the accused came to attribute the most imaginative crime just to end the atrocious tortures they were subject. The execution was not possible without a confession, which could not be extracted with good manners. 3 Inquisitions remember: the medieval, the English and Roman. Although it is confined in different places and times, their methods of procedure were essentially the same. Ancient methods of torture were used and were invented new ones, thanks to the contribution of presumed experts of witchcraft and demonology. They were convinced that the devil would leave a mark on the skin of his servant: invisible sign, but that made numb the skin at that point. That is the meat of the accused were penetrated by long pins to identify the point at which the "Servant of Satan" did not feel pain or not screaming (perhaps because exhausted by torture). This was considered sufficient evidence. The punishments more "normal" were the following:
KNOTTED It was a special torture for women. It is tightly twist the hair of witches on a stick. Strong men rotated the tool quickly, causing a huge pain and in some cases coming to remove the scalp and leaving the skull exposed. This torture was also used in Germany against the Roma (1740-1750) and in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917-1918;
RACK He was a popular and easy way to extract confessions. The victim was tied on a table, ankles and wrists. Roller had passed over the table (and accurately on the body) to dislocate any joints;
CRADLE OF THE WITCH: This was a torture to which they were subjected only witches. The witch was closed in a bag and then tied to a branch was made continuously oscillate. Does not seem like torture, but the swing caused profound disorientation and helped lead to confess. Various subjects they also suffered during this torture of profound hallucinations;
O JUDAS CRADLE OF TRIANGLE : the accused was stripped and hoisted on a pole at the end of which was fixed a large object pyramid of iron. Eventually the victim were fixed weights on the hands and feet;
BLEEDING : it was a common belief that the power of a witch could be canceled by bleeding or by purification through fire, of his blood. The witches were condemned "sign on the breath" (defaced over the nose and mouth) and left to bleed to death;
O IRON MAIDEN Maiden It was a sort of metal container with a human form (Just a little girl) with folding doors. The inner part of the doors were inserted metal blades. The prisoners were locked up so that their body were exposed at this point in its entire length, but without damaging any vital organs so deadly. Death typically occurs slowly in awful pain;
OVEN: This barbarous sentence was carried out in northern Europe and similar to the Nazi crematoria. The difference was that in the concentration camps the victims were killed before being cremated. In the seventeenth century more than two thousand girls and women suffered this penalty within nine years. This count also includes two children;
Garrote: is nothing but a pole with a iron ring attached to the victim, sitting or standing, she was fixed and then went close with screws or a cable. Often break the bones of the spine;
IMMERSION OF STOOL : this punishment was used more often on women. The victim was tied to a seat that prevented any movement of the arms. This seat was then immersed in a pond or a swampy place. Several older women who suffered this torture died from the shock of cold water. The immersion of the stool was used for the witches in America and Britain as well as punishment for minor crimes, prostitution and the harm of repeat offenders;
IMPALA : it is one of the oldest forms of torture. Was implemented by means of a sharp pole inserted into the rectum of the person, forced to pass along the body to escape from the head or throat. The pole was then inverted and planted in the ground, so these miserable victims, when they had the good fortune to die at once, suffered for a few days before expiring. All this was made and exhibited in public;
Mastectomy: Some tortures were prepared not only to inflict physical pain, but also to disrupt the minds of the victims. The mastectomy was one of them. The flesh of women were torn by pincers, sometimes red-hot. One of the most horrific cases known where it was used this torture was that of Anna Pappenheimer. After have already been tortured with the "strappado, was stripped, her breasts were removed and, before him, were driven by force into the mouths of his adult children. This shame was more than physical torture, the execution was a travesty on the role of woman as mother and nurse, imposing an extreme humiliation
Ordal WATER: In this type of ordeal, water symbolizes the Flood of the Old Testament. As the flood swept away the sins so the water "clean up" the soul of the person. After three days of penance, the accused had to plunge their hands in boiling water, sometimes up to the wrists, in other cases up to the elbows. He then waited three days to assess its faults.
was put into practice an ordeal of cold water. Attributed to the person's hands and feet were tied with a rope, so that the position was not certain propitious to stay afloat after being immersed in water: if it floats, it was definitely guilty, because the water is "rejected" a creature demonic, if he went to the bottom, was innocent, but it hardly would have been saved in time;
WATER swallow: the accused, chained hand and foot ring windows in the wall and placed on a tripod, is forced to swallow more than nine liters of water, and many more if the first attempt is not convincing, for a total of eighteen liters.
Ordal FIRE: Before you begin the ordeal of fire, everyone involved should take part in a religious ritual. This ritual could take up to 3 days during which the accused had to participate in prayers, fasting, undergo exorcisms, receive different types of blessings and take the sacraments, after which he begins the ordeal that could take place in different ways. One of these was to carry for some distance a piece of hot iron, the weight varies between half a kilo and a kilo and a half.
Another type of ordeal of the fire was to walk barefoot over hot coals, sometimes blindfolded. After the test, the wounds were covered and the expiration of three days a jury of the state controlled burns. If the wounds were not healed, the accused was guilty, otherwise he was considered innocent;
PERA It was a terrible instrument that was used most often orally. The pear was also used in the rectum and vagina. This instrument was opened with a crack from a minimum to a maximum of its segments. The inside of the cavity it was horribly mutilated, often fatally. The prongs built at the end of the segments were used to increase the physical damage. This was a punishment reserved for women accused of having had sexual intercourse with the Devil;
PRESS : also known as strong and hard punishment, it was a death sentence. Adopted as judicial measure during the fourteenth century, reached its zenith during the reign of Henry IV. In Britain was abolished in 1772.
CLEANING THE SOUL: it was widely believed in many parts of the soul of a witch or a heretic was corrupt, dirty den contrary to what we had in the world. To clean it before the court, sometimes the victims were forced to ingest hot water, coal, and even soap. The famous phrase "wash your mouth out with soap" which is used today dates back to the torture;
STAKE: one of the oldest forms of punishment for witches was death by burning, a fate also reserved for heretics. The fire was often a big public event. The execution took place usually after a short time from the issuance of the award. In Scotland, the burning of a witch was preceded by days of fasting and solemn sermons. The witch was strangled, taking care of it remain in a state of stunning, and his body, at times, was immersed in a barrel of tar before being tied to a stake and in focus. If, for some fortuitous coincidence the witch was able to break free from the pole and go out in flames, people inside the Push back;
WHEEL : France and Germany, the wheel was popular as a penalty. It was similar to the crucifixion. The victims were broken limbs and the body was placed between the spokes of the wheel which was then mounted on a pole. The agony was too long and could last for days;
SEDIAINQUISITORIA : it was a chair fitted with spikes and prickles to which the condemned was bound by tight bandages. The fund could be red-hot for serious burns;
SEGA : terrible method of execution used in most of the time, to homosexuals. The condemned was hung upside down with her legs apart with a saw and was cut in two vertically. Was held upside down so that the bleeding was slow and because the increased flow of blood to the brain acuisse sensitivity to pain. It also appears that the victim remained conscious until the saw reached the skull;
buffeted : it was a form of torture used in conjunction with "stolen". The accused here was always hoisted on the pulley, but with weights tied to his body ranging from 25 to 250 pounds. The consequences were very serious;
SPANISH BOOT: his legs were tied together in a sort of iron boot, the Executioner holding up the pulping of the bones;
TORN: The accused was tied to a rope and hoisted up a kind of pulley. The performer did the rest and leaving abruptly pulling the rope and dislocating, so the joints;
water torture: it was imposed frequently compromising character, since its results were not outwardly visible. Swallow was done to the accused an inordinately water until his stomach did not reach abnormal size, and then was put upside down because the water mass weighed on the diaphragm and lungs. In addition to strong pain, tears and this caused serious injury to internal organs;
THE ANIMAL TORTURE: an insect, usually a gadfly, sometimes one or more bees were placed in the navel of the accused, closed from a glass. Alternatively, you could enter the victim's head in a sack full of angry beasts, often cats
THE MOUSE: Torture applied to witches and heretics. A live mouse was inserted into the vagina or anus with the head turned toward the victim's internal organs and often, the opening was sewn. The creature, frantically looking for a way out, scratched and gnawed the meat and organs of torture. I wonder how they managed to endure the wretched terror at the mere sight of the rat caused by that a little later would come into his body
Turcas : This medium was used to rip and tear the nail. In 1590-1591 John Fian was subjected to this and other torture in Scotland. After that his fingernails were torn out, the needles were inserted in its end;
SLEEP: sleep was to deprive the accused. Matthew Hopkins used it in Essex. The victim, tied up, was also forced to dive into the ditches all night to prevent them from falling asleep.
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