Creepy and weird stuff from ancient history

[Scottyboi]

This one always goes through me.

Archaeologists discover medieval man ‘broken on the wheel' - Medievalists.net

An archaeological dig in Milan has uncovered the remains of a young man who suffered massive injuries, likely caused by torture and execution while being ‘broken on wheel’.

www.medievalists.net

The broken wheel.

 

[laserblue]

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

Luxury. Sheer luxury.

 

[bluemc1]

Never knew where the saying came from before I watched this the other week

 

[Get Pollock On]

Never knew where the saying came from before I watched this the other week

Very interesting

 

[DJ1]

Bang out of order - riding the stang

For centuries, rural Britain played host to a bizarre form of community punishment. In the north of England and Scotland, it was known as ‘Riding the Stang’, and in parts of southern England it was called ‘Skimmington Riding’. Whatever it was called there was one common factor, a boisterous rabble of rowdy villagers taunting and embarrassing the offender with an elaborate parade.

When a husband was known to have hit his wife, the young men of the village set out about creating the procession. The stang was a hurdle or pole on which a joker of the village would sit and be carried aloft through the streets. Pots and pans were banged, and whistles and horns were played. All the villagers would join in and typically the procession would move around the village before arriving at the home of the transgressor, who would presumably be peeking nervously through the curtains.

Sometimes the guy being carried around was part of the shaming crew, and on other occasions, it was the offender himself who was carted around. Some of the last recorded instances of ‘Riding the Stang’ were as recent as 1889.

Chuck in a couple of beers and that's a standard Friday night round here (obviously excluding the wife beating)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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

I bet he didn't commit another crime after that.....

 

[solley attwell]

Horatious on the bridge. His arch nemesis was an Etuscan king called Lars Porsena.
Later immortalised in many takeaways with people ordering a ' lars porsena chips'

 

[chaddblue]

Did it hurt?

Just a flesh wound

 

[doots]

Hopefully one day the Moscow nonce will star as a recipient in one of these horrific torture tales.

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

Hopefully one day the Moscow nonce will star as a recipient in one of these horrific torture tales.

A westlife album on loop should sufice.