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Page 37
... strappado . and burned , told the Emperor : " People are protesting that it is impossible that justice has been done to all the people in Bam- such as 5. The stocks ( Bock ) , furnished with iron spikes , a torment which might be con ...
... strappado . and burned , told the Emperor : " People are protesting that it is impossible that justice has been done to all the people in Bam- such as 5. The stocks ( Bock ) , furnished with iron spikes , a torment which might be con ...
Page 220
... strappado eleven times before confessing , and their twenty - year- old daughter was hoisted eleven times in one day , with a fifty - pound weight attached to her legs . It was ten weeks before the torturer thought she had recovered ...
... strappado eleven times before confessing , and their twenty - year- old daughter was hoisted eleven times in one day , with a fifty - pound weight attached to her legs . It was ten weeks before the torturer thought she had recovered ...
Page 503
... strappado for the ordinary , and squassation for the extraor- dinary , torture ( described in detail in sepa- rate entries ) . Squassation was really a more cruel form of strappado , wherein heavy weights were attached to the feet of ...
... strappado for the ordinary , and squassation for the extraor- dinary , torture ( described in detail in sepa- rate entries ) . Squassation was really a more cruel form of strappado , wherein heavy weights were attached to the feet of ...
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