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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rochel1977" data-source="post: 5988909" data-attributes="member: 371">The Copper Boot<img src="http://www.medievality.com/images/other/boot.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The copper boot could be used in several different ways. First, the torturer placed the victim's feet inside the boot and secured them with chains inside the device. Depending on the crime, the victim could be tortured in many different ways:Boiling Water Although it was more common for victims to be Boiled Alive with the cauldron, torturers could fill the boot with water and place some fire underneath, slowly burning the victim's feet until the victim passed out, died, or confessed.Molten Metals Although the boot would become unusable for later victims, filling it with molten copper, lead or silver was a common practice as it would produce third degree burns and even cause intoxication.Beat it Another way to prolong pain was by repeatedly beating the boot with a hammer. Although the legs would not suffer lethal damage, the pain this incurred often made the victim pass out.Toe Wedging<img src="http://www.medievality.com/images/other/toewedging.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The victim's feet were secured on a small platform. Using wooden or metallic wedges, the torturer slowly fixed the wedges underneath the victim's nails, almost exclusively for confessionary purposes.What followed next was agonizing pain for the victim, as failure to confess would mean wedging the next nail, and the next. Toe wedging was considered the prelude to more painful and humiliating torture methods that would ensue if the victim failed to confess.Since the same wedges were used on several victims, it was common for infections, amputations and even death to result.Toe wedging became popular hundreds of years before the Middle Ages, its origins probably date to Ancient Egypt or before.A variant of toe wedging was finger wedging, which was similar, except that the wedges were presses against the fingernails.Crocodile Shears<img src="http://www.medievality.com/images/other/crocodile_shears.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The crocodile shears had a very specific purpose: To mutilate those who attempted to assassinate the king.The interior design closely resembles a tube containing numerous spikes on both ends. Although it was sometimes used to mutilate the fingers, its most common purpose was to mutilate a man's penis.This torture method was frequently also a way to execute victims, as the arterial damage that ensued from the torture provoked death very frequently.There are few records of the crocodile shears actually being employed.The Pendulum<img src="http://www.medievality.com/images/other/pendulum.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The pendulum was a good way to extract confessions. With the help of a rope, the victim's wrists were tied behind his back. As the torturer turned the handle, the rope slowly elevated eventually dislocating the victim's shoulders.This was very seldom a lethal torture method, as torturers used the pendulum mostly for inflicting psychological fear to extract confessions before actually hurting the victim.If the victim refused to confess, the torturer could elevate the rope high enough to dislocate both shoulders, causing permanent damage. If the victim still failed to confess, torturers could employ more painful devices to finally extract the confession.Many confessed by the mere sight of this device.</blockquote>

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