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The Strappado, used as public punishment, detail of plate 10 of Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot, 1633. The strappado, also known as corda, [1] is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind their back and the victim is suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders.
Illustration of the execution of Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi. Immurement (from Latin im- ' in ' and murus ' wall '; lit. ' walling in '), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits. [1]
c. 37) stipulated that "in no case whatsoever shall the body of any murderer be suffered to be buried"; [27] the cadaver was either to be publicly dissected or left "hanging in chains". [27] The use of gibbeting had been in decline for some years before it was formally repealed by the Hanging in Chains Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 26). [28]
A slightly variant way of executing people by means of impalement was to force an iron meat hook beneath a person's ribs and hang him up to die slowly. This technique was in 18th-century Ottoman-controlled Bosnia called the cengela , [ 23 ] but the practice is also attested in 1770s Dutch Suriname as a punishment meted out to rebellious slaves.
It was also considered a panacea, [3] a term for which it could be used interchangeably: in the 16th century Adam Lonicer wrote that garlic was the rustic's theriac or Heal-All. [ 4 ] The word theriac comes from the Greek term θηριακή ( thēriakē ), a feminine adjective signifying "pertaining to animals", [ 5 ] from θηρίον ...
Researchers wanted to figure out the best way to help protect the Great Wall of China from wind and erosion, according to a study published Dec. 8 in the journal Science Advances. They noticed ...
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Body suspension means the act of rigging a human body to hang from implements that have been placed through temporary perforations in the skin. [1] A number of health concerns might be associated with the practice, such as excessive bleeding, fainting, fall injuries, and infections. [2] Indian man with hooks in his back at the festival of ...