Top 10 Types of Medieval Torture

Idk if it was medieval but it was def used.

Yeah, the flaying looks like it hurts sooooooo bad.

The crocodile tube wasn't common, but it was used to kill many infidels and thieves.



The victim was fixed inside a tube just big enough for the victim's entrance. The tube, having crocodile teeth-like spikes, was slowly compressed leaving the victim totally immobilized. The torturer could only see his face and feet.



With the help of carbon and fire underneath the tube, the torturer gradually heated the tube until he extracted a confession or killed the victim. The former was most common, as this is one of the cruelest and most painful tortures ever used on human beings.



With the face and feet exposed, the torturer was able to inflict painful wounds on the victim. Facial mutilation and toe ripping were preferred choices.

you are wrong to say that god is awesome and i pray for you.

That's why I'm not christian!

Your wish is rather contradicting medi, even though the people who are responsible for those devices were no saints, hoping they would be burning in h**l as in means of eternal suffering and punishment makes you no better than them. Thus, you approve torture.

Amen!

You are a natural born salesman, son.

Only because we're the only animals that make objects out of other objects. Cats play with their food all the time. They hunt when they're not hungry. They ENJOY the hunt, they LIKE to kill. It's in their nature. And orcas do they same thing. I've seen plenty of documentaries where one flips a seal into the air with its flukes and another jumps out of the water and rams it so its bones shatter. I reckon if a cat or an orca could make an Iron Maiden they would use it.
Incidentally, though records of the existance of the Pear of Anguish exist, there's no record of it actually being used until 'modern' times and even then it was oral. Use in the anus or vagina is so far only theoretical.

Although I'm not sure that infomercials aren't just the modern form of flaying. #JustSayin'

what are you talking about? I've got at least half of these in my closet, right behind my collection of whips. :)

Actually, without a deity, the problem of evil becomes a moot argument. If you are to posit actual evil, then that means you assume there is good. If there is good and evil is the opposite of good then you are assuming there is some law giver defining the distinction between good and evil. That law giver must be outside of human-kind or else ethics governing what we consider good and evil would be subjective and these methods of torture could classify as someone's good relatively. So your question must incorporate a deity in order to make any sense.



I think the proper question considering the problem of evil is 'why would a deity allow these things to happen'? If there is no deity, then it really doesn't matter.

The problem of evil in no way ref*tes the existence of deity. If anything it proves it.