these methods honestly make my skin crawl!
Here are ten medieval tortures and/or executions. Hope you learn some interesting history reading this book.
This was a hideous form of execution in which a living person was sawed in half, either longitudinally or transversely, through the central body mass.This was done either by sawing the individual in half across or along the body length and was a horrible way to die but it is no way as painful as some other old tortures and executions.
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This execution was widely used in the middle ages mostly because it was cheap and there were no complex devices that had to be used. The execution genuinely consisted of hanging a person upside-down by their ankles,naked, from a frame, two people would then get a two person saw and start sawing down or across the victims body. There are loads of drawings of how the torture took place, like the one shown above.
Here is a picture of what the saw would've looked like:
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Some are a bit different such as this one here:
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Both of them are truly horrifying torture devices, so simple yet so gruesome.
