What Were The Different Methods Of Torture?

Back in the medieval times people were very brutal to the other people they did not like, they came up with a lot of different things to use to torture others with. I learned that they had many interesting things to use to torture people with, they had rat torture, rope torture, and also impalement. Torture was a brutal reality for many unfortunate people, but the scariest thing about being tortured was the way people designed these devices to inflict pain on others.
One of the three torture devices I will be talking about is “The Tub.” This particular method of torture is a Persian method of torture and, “the convicted person would be placed in a wooden tub with only their head sticking out. After that, the executioner would paint their faces with milk and honey; and soon, flies would begin to feed on them,” (David Pegg.) Meanwhile they were in the tub, they would be fed regularly so after a while maggots would start to form in their feces and they would slowly …show more content…
“The victim was completely restrained and tied to the ground or any horizontal surface. A rat was then placed on his stomach covered by a metallic container. As the container was gradually heated, the rat began to look for a way out through the victim's body. Digging a hole usually took a few hours of agonizing pain for the victim. This almost invariantly resulted in death,” (Joaxx.) This kind of method was founded by the Roman Catholics, in their first attempt they used pottery bowls and then placed hot coals on them and the rats would slowly start to dig into the intestines of the victim. Another rat torture was a man and his wife, the man named Winston was very fond of his face, so one day Winston and his wife got into an argument and she tied him to their bed and tied a cage full of rats to his face. The only was the rats would be able to escape was by digging through his face and