![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, she was also tortured for 5 hours on the box in order to affirm a voluntary confession. ![]() Maddalena endured all of but three hours of said tortures. In the end, the city council decided to sentence her to 15 hours of torture by goats, followed by the repeated procedure in case of silence. She was subjected to various forms of punishment, but did not own up to her guilt. There exists information about the trial of one woman named Maddalena Lazarus held in Bormio in 1673 for 4 months. The torture was accompanied by the rupturing of the perineum, and copious blood loss, often ending with a painful apex as the sacrum breaks. If that was not enough to make one repent his sins, the victim’s soles were splashed with hot ashes or tickled with fire. To enhance pain at this stage, torturers can pull the ankles in different direction, or tie on additional weights. A naked man is tied up and fixed onto the horse so that his feet can’t touch the ground. The construction is made up of metal or wood, often times both those materials. The invention is preceded in appearance by the “Cradle of Judas”. Its essence remained the same – mainly, the sharp corner of the triangle shape which serves as the original seat upon which the torture takes place. Since the appearance of the device it has been modified and mutilated, acquiring new and more sophisticated parts in both technical and aesthetic ways. It is considered to be torture to stretch one on a tight rope (metallic wire), the genitals rubbed until bloodied. There were cases, however, when the “horse” took on a more masculine shape and delivery. The “Spanish Horse” was invented by the Spanish Inquisition in the medieval times to punish those guilty of heresy or witchcraft. ![]()
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