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upcoming chapters:
- Death positivity ✨
- Alternative or eco-friendly ways to...be dead.
- Saponification, mummification, water corpses.
- Body farms/ donating your body to science
(I'll be working at writi...
After a week of dealing with weird emotions and school, I'm finally back. This chapter is going to be about something a little different; instead of talking about decomposition or something, I'm going to talk about a torture method that was used in the past. Enjoy! __________________________________
What is the Brazen Bull? Wiki: The brazen bull, bronze bull, or Sicilian bull, was allegedly a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece.
Essentially, it was a hollow bull made of bronze, with a door on one side. According to some legends, it was also made so that the screams of whoever was inside were converted to the sound of a bull. Which if you ask me, just makes it even more terrifying.
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How was it used? Firstly, the person would be locked inside the bull and a fire would be lit underneath. It's pretty straightforward really; the person would pretty much be roasted to death. It would take 10 minutes before hypothermia kicked in, and by 20 minutes the person would be as good as dead. So now we have human pickles and roast... Looks like we're gonna have a feast- I also read somewhere that the bones of the person who was inside were later used to make bracelets. For who, I'm not sure.
What would this be punishment for? It was mostly (if not entirely) used to persecute Christians. There was also a story of a Christian man being put inside the Brazen Bull and "roasted" with his wife and children.
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I decided to do something different for this chapter since I'm thinking if making another book just dedicated to torture devices and such. Would you guys want that?
Anyhoo, that's all for this chapter. I hope you found it interesting. Untill next time!
