The Rack
This is a torture device I think is most well known its been in movies, books, everywhere usually the first device talked about in schools when talking about torture devices for history,and it is called ,(The Rack ) For the helpless victims dislocation of every joint in the body and elongations up to 12" were possible. 'Surgeons' might reset joints to allow the torture to be repeated. Severe lacerations and loss of blood would result from racking even without the additional use of red hot pincers to tear off nipples, tongues, ears, noses, and genitals.
and of course it brought the wretched heretics closer to God.
Sometime the rack was limited to dislocating a few bones, but the torturer often went too far and rendered the legs or arms (sometimes both) useless. In the late Middle Ages, some new variants of this instrument appeared. They often had spikes that penetrated the victim's back - as the limbs were pulled apart, so was his or her spinal cord increasing not only in physical pain, but the psychological one of being handicapped at best, too. so next time you climb out of bed in the morning and think your back hurts,just think of the rack and you will hop out of bed with a skip.
The Rack
This is a torture device I think is most well known its been in movies, books, everywhere usually the first device talked about in schools when talking about torture devices for history,and it is called ,(The Rack ) For the helpless victims dislocation of every joint in the body and elongations up to 12" were possible. 'Surgeons' might reset joints to allow the torture to be repeated. Severe lacerations and loss of blood would result from racking even without the additional use of red hot pincers to tear off nipples, tongues, ears, noses, and genitals.
and of course it brought the wretched heretics closer to God.
Sometime the rack was limited to dislocating a few bones, but the torturer often went too far and rendered the legs or arms (sometimes both) useless. In the late Middle Ages, some new variants of this instrument appeared. They often had spikes that penetrated the victim's back - as the limbs were pulled apart, so was his or her spinal cord increasing not only in physical pain, but the psychological one of being handicapped at best, too. so next time you climb out of bed in the morning and think your back hurts,just think of the rack and you will hop out of bed with a skip.