History has shown us that the human mind is a powerful and privileged tool, since it has no limits. The human being constantly surpasses himself, especially after moments in which darkness, ignorance and death walked the Earth in nuptial union.
However, there have been characters who have used their gray matter to create an absolute industry of suffering, because they were convinced in a very radical way of what they believed, and they did not tolerate those who acted and thought differently.
The human being is a death machine. This fact is constantly reaffirmed over and over again; and it is not necessary to look to the past to find the arguments that support this. Humanity is in a toxic relationship with itself.
Obviously, creativity has extended its hand to give rise to various ways of making others suffer. Some of these methods remained in the history books. But there are others that are tangibly immortalized in various museums.
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One of those places is the Museum of Torture. It is located in Santillana del Mar, a small town in the autonomous community of Cantabria, in the north of Spain; nation where he made an appearance the Inquisition, a group of Catholic institutions that dedicated resources, knowledge and high doses of dogmatism to punish and execute those who committed acts considered incorrect by the Church.
This museum stands out for having a large collection of machines specialized in slow and painful death used during the dark Middle Ages, when the institutions made and unmade in Europe to their fullest.
The instruments that are exhibited there range from the most conventional (such as an ax or a guillotine) to machines specialized in torturing those who were accused of heresy or witchcraft.
Yes, today I visited the so-called Museum of the Inquisition in #Grenade.
The why is the least of it.Among other niceties, I find a guillotine, you know, that instrument of killing, which until 1977 the French used to execute prisoners.
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death in the form of a wheel
One of the most used artifacts was the wheel, which was a fairly elementary torture method that required a club, a cartwheel and an executioner or executioner, according to the Spanish newspaper ‘ABC’.
The condemned person was stripped naked and tied at the wrists and ankles to a cross in such a way that the limbs and joints were fully exposed. Then, the executioner proceeded to hit the victim with an object in such a way that all his bones were broken, but without killing him.
After making sure that all of his limbs were totally destroyed, the person was tied to a cart wheel and the limbs were dislocated so that their ankles managed to touch the person’s headwhile the arms were extended, as the medium continues to explain.
This process ended by nailing the wheel to a vertical stake, leaving it elevated in a horizontal position, and then putting it out in the open with the dying person. Sometimes the person was beheaded and the head was stuck on the end of the stake.
the many options
Likewise, there was another method called ‘The Hanging Cage’, in which the condemned person was locked in a cage and left in a public place, totally naked, without food and in the open airso he was a victim of heat, cold, hunger and thirst.
The victim was left until his corpse gave off rotten odors and bones.
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There were also simpler methods such as the axe, which was used for beheadings in public squares, or the guillotine, which was a metal blade driven by a pulley to do the same thing more quickly.
However, one of the most curious methods used during the time was the ‘Judas cradle’. Named after the ‘traitor apostle’. It was a pointed pyramid which was dropped on the victim. The tip of the object hurt the genital or anal area of the person in different intensity, depending on the pressure exerted by the executioneraccording to the Spanish newspaper ‘El Confidencial’
THE CRADLE OF JUDAS
Instrument of psychological torture.
The prisoner was tied up and dropped with all his weight on the sharp triangle to injure the anus, scrotum or vagina.
Then he was left sitting there. He should not fall asleep as the relaxation of the muscles would cause worse damage. pic.twitter.com/pgBLxq8dyC— ロシオ (@roduraznita) January 4, 2020
Normally this method was used for interrogations of prisoners of war in central Europe. However, an ‘improved’ version with electricity and a belt included was created in various Spanish-American dictatorships during the 20th century.
The thought of going to exhibitions where objects used for such purposes are displayed can create discomfort and shock.
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However, despite their horrific past, they are valuable products to realize and be aware of what the human being has been, is and can be capable of doing. And that reflection, perhaps, ends up leading to rethink goals in favor of well-being, and not evil and blood.
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