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Medieval Torments and Torture Techniques
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  • 1. Punishment involving loss of reputation or civil rights
  • 2. German term for corporal punishment, often judicially applied
  • 4. Wooden device securing head and hands for public humiliation
  • 6. Convict sentenced to row ships as cruel penalty
  • 7. Restraint device immobilizing feet for public ridicule
  • 8. Punishment involving immersion in boiling liquid (metaphorically harsh)
  • 9. Notorious medieval torture device, enclosing victim in spikes
  • 12. Cart used to transport condemned to execution, notably during the French Revolution
  • 14. Cage or frame displaying executed bodies as warning
  • 15. Punishment with a whip or rod causing brutal lacerations
  • 17. Metal mask designed to punish and silence scolding women
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  • 3. Extreme English capital punishment involving dismemberment and hanging
  • 5. Station for corporal punishment by lashes
  • 10. Form of punishment targeting noisy women in Early Modern Europe
  • 11. Extrajudicial mob justice, usually with rope
  • 13. Harsh penalty forcing offenders to clean cesspits or public refuse
  • 16. Instrument of fracturing bones used as public spectacle
  • 18. Framework for hanging, infamous in capital punishment
  • 19. Subterranean prison chamber, often damp and inescapable

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