Creepy and weird stuff from ancient history

[bluealf]

People masterbate to the oddest stuff nowadays

 

[Saddleworth2]

While reading about Lady Jane Gray on Wikipedia I ended up on a page about the history of execution by burning and from there a page that detailed a Roman punishment called

Poena cullei​

The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack, with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water.

what about the herbs and seasoning man? Where they barbarians or what?

Finish by gently heating and serve with a rice pilaf. Yum.

 

[Saddleworth2]

The execution of Robert Damiens was the worst I've read. He stabbed King Louis XV. Hope 28th March wasn't his birthday :)

Fetched from his prison cell on the morning of 28 March 1757, Damiens allegedly said "La journée sera rude" ("The day will be hard").[9] He was first subjected to a torture in which his legs were painfully compressed by devices called "boots". He was then tortured with red-hot pincers; the hand with which he had held the knife during the attempted assassination was burned using sulphur; molten wax, molten lead, and boiling oil were poured into his wounds.[1] He was then remanded to the royal executioner Charles Henri Sanson who, after emasculating Damiens, harnessed horses to his arms and legs to be dismembered. But Damiens's limbs did not separate easily: the officiants ordered Sanson to cut Damiens's tendons, and once that was done the horses were able to perform the dismemberment.[10][11][12] Once Damiens was dismembered, to the applause of the crowd, his reportedly still-living torso was burnt at the stake.[13] (Some accounts say he died when his last remaining arm was removed.)

Robert-François Damiens - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

sounds h-armless to me.

Is dismembering when you get blackballed from your gentlemans club? Ouch. That must hurt.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I had to sit through a Coldplay concert once.

 

[Elbow beards]

That's the one.

The milk and honey part don't sound too bad until you realise how that all fits in with the rest of it.

Apparently one warrior subjected to the torture lasted 17 days.

I read of another whereby the victim was strung out on a rack about a foot above the ground beneath fast growing bamboo whose stems had been sharpened. The bamboo grows straight through the hapless recipient.

Nice

 

[Maintainin]

Have you ever seen anyone crucified?

"...Crucifixion's a doddle"​

 

[DrBlueBob]

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Nice one Centurion.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

I had to sit through a Coldplay concert once.

Winner

 

[Maintainin]

Nice one Centurion.

Oi, i heard that ...big nose

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Must admit never fancied the sawing in half one, strung upside down and the gradually sawn lengthways in two.

The Spanish Donkey was a similar idea, but with a pointy thing up the bum hole and then weights added to your feet until you were split in two.

Im sure some Tory backbenchers would probably enjoy the latter.

Think that's one of Jacob Reese-Moggs party tricks.........