The Judas Cradle. Another horrific torture instrument of the Spanish Inquisition.
The Judas Cradle. Another horrific torture instrument of the Spanish Inquisition. According to the Inquisition Museum in Granada: “Known in in France as “the vigil”, the goal of this instrument is not to cause death or serious physical injury, but to break the spirit of the interrogated captive. Through a complicated system of pulleys and with the help of a metal belt fixed around the waste, the prisoner is suspended over the point of a pyramid precisely at the height of the anus, vagina or scrotum. According to the tormentor’s wishes the pressure on the zone is increased or decreased, with the added factor that if the prisoner relaxed the penetration of the point would heighten, which did not allow him or her to rest for a second. In this case the physical effect is relatively less severe than the psychological torture.” One of the more amazing facts I’ve read about the Spanish Inquisition is that Napoleon Bonaparte, when he invaded Spain in the early 1800s, abolished the I...