**Torture Devices**

[Faline]

Thumbscrew
When a victim refused to reveal sensitive information, he or she would be subject to the thumbscrew. The victim’s hands were placed in the device and the torturer would crush the victim’s fingers slowly.


Inquisitionchair
An Indian fakir would absolutely love this chair, but not those victims of the Inquisition who were unfortunate enough to sit on it butt naked. Strapped tight to it with leather straps, those who sat on this chair felt the pain of hundreds of sharp and rusty spikes piercing their flesh, and that pain is magnified even more when torturers decide to press them down against the spikes. For added fun, torturers heated this iron chair and effectively roasted slowly the poor unfortunate souls sitting on it.


Boots
This horrible piece of equipment was made up of wedges that fitted the legs from ankles to knees. Pure pain ensues when the torturer violently pounds the wedges with a large, heavy hammer, a process that is done repeatedly until flesh and bone are completely destroyed, with some victims even gushing marrow from their crushed legs.


The Spanish Tickler
The Spanish Tickler tickled its victims pink, and ultimately very red as this device, also known as the Cat's Paw, ripped and tore their flesh away from the bone, targeting any part of the body.


Head Crusher
Here's another torture device with a self-explanatory name. The chin of the victim is placed on the lower bar, When the questioning starts, the screw starts to turn and the cap is forced down the victim's head. Use your imagination to see what happens when that cap is pressed all the way down a person's head.
The amazing part is, the Head Crusher is said to be still in use up to this day for interrogation purposes.


Spanish Donkey
A number of medieval torture devices have the word "Spanish" attached to it, but this one is probably the most gruesome. The Spanish Donkey gave victims an unimaginably horrible ride, and here's why. Victims are put astride, naked, the apparatus, which is actually a vertical wood board with a sharp V-shape wedge on top. Varying weights are then attached to their feet. Eventually, the victim's own weight and the extra baggage cause the wedge to slice through their bodies, splitting them in half.


The Rack
The rack is a contraption designed to dislocate every single joint in its victim’s body. Tied across the device’s board by the ankles and wrists, the victim’s body is then pulled in opposite directions by turning rollers at either end of the board. Great way of relieving a bad back, if you ask me. Of course, the subsequent pain caused by the multiple dislocations is another story.


Knee- Splitter
A popular torture device during the Inquisition, the knee splitter does what it says: split victims' knees and render them useless. Built from two spiked wood blocks, the knee splitter is placed on top of and behind the knee of its victims. Two large screws connecting the blocks are then turned, causing the two blocks to close towards each other and effectively destroy a victim's knee.


Breast Ripper
Breast ripper: this one is self-explanatory. Many women condemned as heretics, adulterers, blasphemers had their breasts ripped out using this device.

[Rowena024]

awsome

[janet291]

Wow!
Very interesting!
Awesome Post

[Jere]

some see torture.
i see pleasure

[markz666]

Very interesting post Kelly love the info

[Adora]

I think my favourite one is the rack : )

[killingbennet]

sik fuks but i can think of one guy in particular who would benefit from some treatment with these instruments.

[Binyamine]

If we could get some videos showing these torture tools in action, this would be fun.I still cannot figure out how Breast Ripper works Anyone want to volunteer

[Nite]

i just keep thinking that you would pay someone a couple of hundred dollars an hour to put these into action......good post

[san_chayin]

Last device is intutive.....