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Medieval Torments and Torture Traditions
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Across
  • 1. To punish by cutting off limbs or body parts
  • 2. Dividing a body into four parts as execution
  • 3. Run between rows of men who beat you as a punishment
  • 4. Marking a criminal's skin with a heated iron
  • 5. Punishment involving lashes with a whip or lash
  • 6. Ancient method of execution by nailing to a cross
  • 8. Beating with a whip or rod as corporal punishment
  • 9. Punishment involving banishment from one's homeland
  • 10. Wooden frame used to restrain feet or hands in public punishment
  • 13. Execution method by immersing in hot liquid, often water or oil
  • 16. Torture device that stretched the victim’s body
Down
  • 7. Humiliating punishment involving a sticky substance and feathers
  • 11. Structure used to display executed criminals as a warning
  • 12. To confine someone as a form of legal punishment
  • 14. A whip with multiple thongs used for punishment
  • 15. Device that locked a person's head and hands in public humiliation
  • 17. One part of 'hanged, drawn and quartered' execution

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