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Arcane Instruments of Medieval Retribution
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Across
- 2. A punishment involving running between two lines of men with sticks
- 3. Cart used to transport condemned to execution sites
- 4. Historic practice of nailing boots shut to prevent walking
- 9. Enclosure of stakes used for confining or punishing prisoners
- 10. Wooden framework exposing the head and hands for public shame
Down
- 1. Corporal punishment inflicted by repetitive lashes
- 5. Ancient Greek penalty of exile combined with enforced servitude
- 6. Not a siege engine here, but a torture by suspension with weights
- 7. Flagellation technique inflicting pain with leather strips
- 8. Medieval verbal punishment device, often a cage for nags
- 11. Punishment of ancient times involving nailing to a cross
- 12. Iron muzzle designed to silence talkative offenders
- 13. Part of 'hanged, drawn, and quartered'—dragging to execution site
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