Chapters: 00:19: Flaying 01:57: The Boats 03:27: Poena Cullei (the sack) 05:03: Crucifixtion 06:45: Immurement 08:25: The Breaking wheel 09:52: Impalement 11:18: The Rack 12:38: Auto-da-fe (burnt alive) 14:01: Schwedentrunk 15:17: Tarring & Feathering 16:38: Trial by Ordeal 18:05: Rat torture 19:22: Yubitsume (slice off a little finger) 20:28: White Torture
I can't even comprehend inflicting this much pain on another person, the fact that this was common back then is even more insane. We're definitely lucky to be born in this time, though I know there's still torture in some countries.
You won't be avle to comprehend it. We are born in a completely different world. The world is an extremely complicated place. It's not as cut and dried as you'd like to think. Your environment sculpted what you perceive to be normal, good, or evil. When you're born into an extremely brutal world, these things aren't as shocking anymore.
@@pfhrmb yeah that was almost a hundred years ago so it classifies as "back then" weird how you managed to shove in slavery there. Surprised you don't have a blm profile pic.
I got my pinky finger flayed the other day by accident, although only about 2 inches. It was so painful I thought I was going to die. I cant imagine being flayed more than that!
The more you hear about these brutalities, the less surprised I am, humans can be such sadistic and evil creatures, torturing others based purely on belief, rather than a proper system of evidence based trials, even today...
Absolutely this is actually really depressing if you really think about it.. these poor people just think about it.. years ago even now.. our mother's brother sisters daughter's sons are selves could have experienced this type of torture simply for being Jewish being Christian being Protestant being the "wrong" color skin or basically anything that disagrees what the majority believes in.... Weather is out of fear or they actually truly believe in it... In all honesty is kind of disgusting and it's kind of a truth about evil humans can be. Why the f*** can't we just f****** be nice to each other and treat others like we would like to be treated... Imagine if that Babylonian rule and eye for an eye or true?! When it comes to this type of stuff!? I don't know I'm sorry this is just depressing me..
thats why in my religion, in order for someone to be completely proven guilty, is by having proof, AND at least, 4 eyewitness, and those 4 eyewitness have their requirement, which are strict, they need to be completely trusted by everyone, known to be a good unproblematic and likeable people, basically everyone best friend
I'm loving the absolutely cheery, optimistic, hopeful, and "epic" music playing in the background while the narrator goes on about some of the most sadistic torture methods concocted by mankind. Great choice there, guys.
Human evil is easily the most disgusting thing in all of this planet's history. I could never imagine myself ever wanting to hurt someone or watch someone be tortured in any of these ways or even close. Every single one of these punishments is incredibly cowardly and grotesque and I really am unable to understand what in the world goes in the head of someone capable of these things. Absolute sociopath monsters
Yeah I’m having similar thoughts myself. How did this happen? I had to stop after one minute and sixteen seconds because I was in fair danger of going lightheaded with the eventual possibility of fainting. I’ve come across some pretty nasty ways people have died but it was usually accidental such as radiation sickness and the fate of the first officer of UPS Flight 6 from Dubai. But this? I just don’t know.
Really? The fact that "people" like rapists and pedophiles exists warrants it perfectly. I can think of plenty of reasons why I would want to do something like these punishments to someone, or worse.
@@none-ro9dz No, that doesn't make you any different than them. Nobody has the right to torture anyone. They tortured their victims, but that does not give you the right to torture them back. Just lock those wild animals away forever, with no chance of getting out. Period.
Sometimes I don't understand how people can be so cruel. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, it's just hard to watch a living thing being put on these torture methods
Brazen Bull should easily be number 1, idk how it didn’t even get mentioned. The combination of not only burning, but the full body contact to the heated metal, and on top of that being in a pitch black tiny space, and the thought of people getting enjoyment out of your screams for help. When I found this torture method a few weeks ago I couldn’t sleep that whole night thinking that human beings had actually died that way and someone was sick enough to invent it. It’s a holo metal bull with a door on the side big enough for someone to be put into and shut, and there’s a some kind of horns that go from the inside out the nostril of the bull to turn the victims screams into the sound of a bull. A fire would be lit below the bull to slowly heat the inside of the bull.
To be fair though, there's no legitimate reliable sources that say the bull was even used outside of stories and legends. Most notably the ironic twist that the inventor be the one roasted in it but it was never actually recorded to have been used against any criminals.
Not so fun fact: When flaying was done by someone skilled, your skin was removed from the bottom up, concluded by removing all the skin on your face and head. It's referred to as "degloving". Often this was done in front of a mirror so the victim could see their own skull with eyes in the sockets. Their eyelids came off with the skin so they couldn't blink or close their eyes. They spend the next hours or days staring at their own skeleton and skull. The mental horror of the sight is unimaginable and a worse torture than any physical pain?
You’re correct but we do the front side of each limb first before moving on to the backside of the limb. Once to the neck area we go head down that’s the only time we go down. I done 4 by myself now.
@@garethh6962 How do you keep the victim from dying of blood loss? I've tried this many times and they always expire way before I can even get to the best part.
Imagine the fear and panic people in medieval times must have felt of being wrongfully accused and mercilessly tortured to death… I mean, it's scary enough to think about being wrongfully accused now, but the torture devices they used back then must have dramatically intensified the fear. I think people really need to have and receive more compassion.
Or being wrongfully accused and torturtued so badly you confess to a crime you didn't commit to end the agony only to be sentenced to a horrible death like being boiled alive or hung drawn and quartered
I don't know how they didn't come to the conclusion that witches were beings of light, partners with God. Since they all died by drowning and "went to heaven"...
Side note: in tarring and feathering, tar was actually rarely used because it was rather expensive. More often than not a different sticky substance was used because the point of tarring and feathering isn't torture or death, it's humiliation.
Actually it was usually fatal not only because of the severe burns but because of the inability for the skin to breathe resulting in lack of oxygen in the blood. Edit: I have been meaning to make the necessary corrections to this comment after doing some proper research I can see the error of my statement I'd picked up that it was lethal at some point and my initial comment was merely me parroting this information My apologies I hope that my ignorance may be forgiven.
Out of all the tortures on that list, I would have to say the boats is the absolute worst 2:12. You're literally being slowly eaten from the outside and inside while laying in your own excriment.
They were lucky ...they never got to experience having no internet access , i know they never had it at all but because of that they dont the pain of not being able to reply to a flat earther or hardline religious nut
I kinda think video games stimulate our violent, sadistic urges so that we don't do stuff in rl, they pacify us instead of triggering us after getting our daily fill of violence. Just a theory.
The sarcasm of his pitch at the end, was hilarious. "What about the children?" What the narrator was basically saying: If you guys think this video was bad, ohhh, I got another one for you. ;)
One of the few people to not give information while tortured with the rack was Anne Askew, a Tudor woman who was accused of being a Christian heretic (for reading the Bible to the poor and illiterate, and for asking to divorce an abusive husband), and she refused to give the names of others to make it stop. And they didn’t go easy on her, as Henry the 8th bizarrely had it out for her and then had her carried to the stake (as she couldn’t walk) to be burned.
The Tudor Court treated any dissident as potentially dangerous. The fear was that the religious dissidents would set fire to Church of England property and cause riots. In some cases they were indeed correct!
@Bean sprout 🌱💞 almost ALL the King Henrys, were psychopaths and their children, as well. King Henry III, was King Edward Longshanks, father, from the, mostly, historically true movie, Braveheart, with Mel Gibson, playing as, William Wallace, of Scotland.🤔🤷
"The Dark Ages" means the "obscured/unknown ages" like "dark side of the moon" and has nothing to do with it being a particularly brutal time in history, we just don't know much about it because a lot of records & such were destroyed.
Bro I have a four years of college and I'm now a respiratory therapist and yet I never knew this about The Dark Ages. It's awesome to actually learn something in a RUclips comment. Thanks for posting, truly.
The funny thing is, most nations had Chroniclers at the time that recorded who was King and what the major events were. The Era is misnamed. Because we know so much about the period, perhaps it is better to call it the "Post Roman Germanic period" or "the Era of Charlemange"
The Boats is also called scaphism. Everything I have ever studied regarding crucifixion maintains individuals did not just hang by their arms because if such were the case, said individuals would have died within minutes as a result of positional asphyxia. (Think back to hanging from the monkey bars when you were a kid. Remember how if you just hung from the bars it was very difficult to breathe?) The torturers needed to keep the condemned alive to suffer. In order to accomplish this, a peg or small ledge was placed beneath the feet so that the knees were slightly bent. This allowed the crucified individual to take pressure off their arms by pushing themselves up by their feet. This so-called ledge would only be large enough for one foot however, and since the feet were tied so that one foot was atop the other, the individual would be unable to alternate between feet, thus putting twice the pressure and strain on one foot and leg. Eventually, the individual would run out of the energy needed to push himself up by his feet in order to continue to breathe, and I think we all know what happens when a human can no longer get oxygen into their body. Oh, and fyi: crucifixion still happens today.
It's wild to think that for every type of torture there was one guy whose job it was to sit down and think of ways to make it even more horrific, right down to a science. "Like okay, so we came up with this torture where you nail someone up by their wrists and leave them to die... good. Great. But I don't think that's evil *enough.* Hmm... okay, stay with me, now... how about if we make them *think* they're getting a bit of relief by placing a ledge under their feet to rest on, see? Dangle that false hope in front of them. But ah ha! we'll tie their feet in such a way that forces their weight onto one leg. This will not only exhaust them while prolonging their pain at the same time, but we get to inflict some grade-A psychological torture, as well!" **Insert evil supervillain laugh**
There was a torture method where people would pour molten lead down the accused's mouth. There's a similar one where they'd take what looked like a baby rattle with holes and fill it with lead and heat it up to get the lead molten and shake little beads molten lead onto the faces and bodies of the accused.
For me, the most horrifying thing is not the tortures themselves, but the fact that they have always been done our thousands of years and by every different culture and society throughout history.
Not always and not every culture. Not in Africa and mostly by religious groups. These were punishments as well, do you find it hard to follow the rules of society? Maybe you should be concerned.
It’s crazy how nowadays when some people get arrested they find it the worst day of there lives thinking the world is over for them and then hearing these torture methods that are scary as heck
During crucifixion, if the condemned person was deemed to be "taking too long" to die, the executioners would sometimes break the legs of the crucified. The shock on the body, after hours or even days of hanging, would generally mean quick albeit unbelievably painful death
The witch drowning always confused me. Don't they realize that if the woman in question really had magic, she wouldn't have been caught in the first place?
It was no escape: sunk = innocent, but they waited to long, until person will be floated to the surface: floating was guilty. But some moment the body will come up, mostly after the person had drowned :(. Women who where independent, different, smart etc were called witch. They were a threat to the men.
There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. - Are there? What are they? Tell us. - Do they hurt? - Tell me, what do you do with witches? - Burn them! - And what do you burn, apart from witches? - More witches!..............Wood! - So why do witches burn? - 'Cause they're made of wood? - Good! - And how do we tell if she is made of wood? - Build a bridge out of her. - But can you not also make bridges out of stone? - Oh, yeah.
@@flixtrue6300 Around 10-15% of all people executed for witchcraft were men. Most accusers and those having made written complaints against supposed witches were women. The patriarchy was built and maintained by both men *and* women. Not all, but most.
They did realise it. It was often used to silence women who had a mind of their own, and proved to be problematic. They knew there was no chance of their survival but by accusing them of witchcraft, they had a "legitimate" (according to their twisted religion) means to deal with them.
1:53 "flaying is nothing compared to..." Nah man, just no.. if anything, flaying should be at very top alongside brazen bull, impalement, sawing and quartered..
It’s hard to imagine the mindset people had back then but i guarantee if we were living in those times we would have the same mindsets which is crazy to think about
We still do. Look at all the horror movies for instance saw. People are still coming up with horrible way to inflict pain on others we are just more civilized that in most cases we don't actually act on these things we just come up with them and put them in movies and guess what we all go and see them. Humans have a weird obsession with pain. I wish I knew the psychology behind it! 😮 horrifying and yet fascinating.
@@thefoxeshideawayyou have an intersting point. They used to go to public executions or Collosseum for entertainment. And now we see movies with this kind of things as entertainment. So… we are just the same, but now we don’t have to do these things in real life?
@@EM-wr9yy I don't think so. There's a small number of people who enjoy the gore. A little more that enjoy the violence. But the vast majority of people tend to enjoy the storyline and spectacle. Even in the coliseum you mentioned, the event organizers made a lot of effort to create spectacle and some kind of "storyline" (a bit like modern 'wrestling'). And before formal 'civilizations', ancient tribes typically entertain themselves with some kind of weed and telling folk tales around campfires and dancing... etc... Even the public executions often have some kind of spectacle building sets and stuff. Not saying that some people don't like violence or are fascinated by pain, but I think more than anything else, people like spectacles, anything out of the ordinary.
@@Urza26 Yeah, that could be! I agree with what you said, but I still find it weird how many of these “spectacles” are centered around pain. The violence makes it more interesting… And I am even more impressed by how creative humans are when it comes to creating pain. For example: different methods of tourture. I could never be able to come up with such crazy ideas of torturing somebody! But it seems like some humans just have it in their blood.
Human beings are sick and this video shows it. How can you put someone through so much agony as these torture methods? I don't even want to try to imagine.
Then going home at the end of their shift, asking their partners how their day went. Only to continue the next day. Hmm, let’s see, where did we left off?
@@westerlywinds5684 Sounds a lot better than a slow agonizing death like the ones in this video. It feels good to ask people about their day, if you're a kind human being.
This is just crazy and truly heartbreaking. Mankind can be so cruel to one another. We're all brothers and sisters of God above. I am glad we are living in the present and not the past.
You actually forgot about the blood eagle. It's a torture method used by old nordic people at the peak of the viking age. In that torture, a person would be kneeled and then their back cut open, ribs pulled to the front and lungs would be left hanging over the victim's shoulders. If a victim didn't make any noise, they would go to Valhalla. It was used only for persons that had some significance (as in a Jarl or a king). It was the last chance for that person to die glorious death.
If you were accused of being a witch they would throw you in the river if you floated you were a witch and would be burned at the stake. If you sank you'd be innocent but dead.
Well that makes perfect sense ! Why don't we continue this practice? After all god knows what he is doing otherwise how could his church become so rich.
Every second of this video is extremely captivating! The clear explanation and great illustrations helped me understand the topic more deeply. This is truly a video worth watching!
Me as a human being: the human race was a mistake. Me as an author: *takes notes.* On a more serious note, for all the problems in the world today I am glad that at least some of human society has renounced such barbaric ways of dealing with those deemed undesirable.
I don't know, I still say there should be an exception made for anybody sick in the head enough to sexually abuse a child. If I had a daughter and she fell victim to a person like that, I'd wish scaphism or iron bull torture were still a thing. Or apply "an eye for an eye" here. If a person is cruel and unsually violent to somebody (it's happened in the modern day - ever seen the MrBallen video about the man who hunted people for sport or the TheyWillKillYou video about the woman who disemboweled her own mother?) should be punished equally or worse than what they did.
I've been subscribed to this channel for a long time, and let me just say, you guys, your knowledge of torture is unparalleled, it's really incredible to see how much time and effort you guys put into finding out all the horrible and cruel things that humans have done to each other, great video guys.
I’m sure that there was a social element involved that made people feel pressured to attend or risk being associated with the guilty party and tortured themselves.
@@Levi-ft9ixThat's just a movie though. Violent movies are not even close to watching a person die in real life right in front of you. It's a totally different experience. It's not like in the movies.
@ElementZero Without getting too graphic, they'd pull someone's lungs out from behind so the lungs would look like wings and let them stay that way until the end
When some people say "In the old days, people were better." = No. Humans were always HORRIBLE. They enjoyed causing horrible pain to others. Glad we have more modern ways to entertain people... like youtube.
To this point I still don’t get the word “inhumane” this punishments are literally made by humans they are humane punishments it’s not like some Satan came and gave the instructions guide
5:07 Actually, Jesus was not crucified for angering the Roman authorities. He was crucified because He angered the Sanhedrin, the Jewish church authorities. The Romans could have cared less. Pontius Pilate even said, "I find no basis for charging this man" and actually wanted to let Him go, but finally gave in, fearing that a riot would happen if he did. Pilate even told them, "Take Him and crucify Him yourselves."
Woooooooah. I watched one of those "terroist decapitation" videos, and your comment made me think of it, instantly. That video REALLY freaked me out, man.
@@unsolicitedditkapics9722 it's easy to justify even the worst of things when you believe that it's God's will for you to do it, and also if you see this life as a fraction of how long life after death lasts. From an evolutionary perspective, human empathy is necessary to preserve our own kind. But if you don't believe in evolution, you have no use for it.
@@unsolicitedditkapics9722 everyone in the world is "religious" all religion is is just a belief in something and a set of morals, you can define it as believing in some God but thats reductioninst in actuality everyone everywhere follows a moral code and way of life they believe without any evidence, anyone ever who opposes societies beliefs whatever they are will be persucuted, it has nothing to do with religion, especially since you guys don't even believe religion is true it must have been made by man in the first place so the real issue here is humans are evil and make up reasons to be evil
@@AM-bm9rs You mistake being religious with being devoted. Religion means not only to believe in a god/goddess but to believe that that deity communicates with humans. Something by the way no human has been able to scientifically prove. When a priest rapes a child or a Muslim suicide bombs a building we feel bad because it is in our nature to feel bad. Well, most of us feel bad…🤨
About the breaking wheel: In the german region where I come from, it was common for towns and cities to have a so-called "gallow's hill" where death sentences would be carried out (many of those places still bear names such as "gallow's hill" or similar). As the most common practice in the region besides hanging was the breaking wheel, the people there developed their own (literal) spin on it: They would break the delinquents limbs with the wheel, and then weave him into the spokes and tie him up. After that, the wheel with the person on it would be pushed over the hill's edge and rolled down again and again until the sentenced person would be dead.
I am a scary story narrator on here and I have to say, you have a wonderful voice and I appreciate the hard work you do for us. Never stop making videos!
I've always thought the obliette is the worst way to go. Put yourself in the headspace of being dropped into a hole not big enough to stand, and not long enough to lay down. Sharp rocks dig into you and you are put into a slurry of water and feces. The grate over the top is directly over your head. Occasionally the filthiest water imaginable pour into the space and you hold your face up to the grate to prevent drowning. The water can't be drank but as dehydration sets in you drink the slurry, making you as sick as you've ever been. Weeks in you feel sharp sticks pushing into your back and after several days of attempting to move the sharpe point you finally manage to pull it above the filth and see that it's actually rotting human bones and you realize the slurry you have been living in has been the decomposing corpse of the last man who has been put in. You cannot sleep without jolting awake when your head lowers into the horrid slurry and you breath it in. Hours feel like days, days feel like months. You go mad screaming to be released or killed but quickly realize you will never see or hear another human ever again. You eventually die from dehydration and infection from your body marinating in a soup of urine, feces, and human decomposition. By the time you die, you've gone so mad that you cannot even remember that you had a life before this hole. This is all you know anymore. In reality you aren't even really killed, and yet there is no chance you will survive. During your psychotic breaks from reality you fantasize about the sweet relief of being burned to death or hanged.
An ancestor of mine was famously hung, drawn and quartered for treason which was considered one of the worst forms of execution which I won't outline here but I think that boiling in oil was the only method considered worse at the time. Nobles who had to be executed were simply beheaded. Knowing what happened to my ancestor has always made me wonder about how terribly people were made to suffer under judicial investigation or execution and so i found this video very informative if a little depressing.
Some the crushing method to avoid spilling blood, where stones are put on their body until suffocation occurs. St Margaret Clitherow was on the wrong end of this one.
The level of creative energy for torture was something to behold. Imagine our progress today if we used this energy back then to create and build, rather than to torture. “My lord, I think I just discovered electricity!” “Shut up Johnson. We don’t have time for that. We’re brainstorming how best to remove the skin from a thief.”
Imagine going through that. It makes you think about the fact that many people have gone through this and that's crazy, you can't even start to think how agonizing that would be (I would definitely expect the crime rates to be lower, no matter their circumstances) .
John Meints was actually tarred and feathered in 1918, not 1912. It would have been weird to punish him for not supporting the war bond drive a full two years before the war had even started.
@@TheChristianWood I knew it couldn't have been 1912 because the war was from 1914-1918 and the US didn't enter the war until 1917 so I looked it up. There are a few pages, including an obituary, all giving the same date. Best description comes from the Wikipedia article for tarring and feathering: "On August 19, 1918, amidst anti-German sentiment during World War I, German-American farmer John Meints (misspelled Meintz) was taken from his home in Luverne, Minnesota and driven to the border with South-Dakota. There, masked locals whipped him, threatened to shoot him, and tarred-and-feathered him, forcing him to cross the border and threatening to hang him if he returned. Meints named 32 of the men involved in a lawsuit, but they were acquitted, with the judge instructing the jury that the evidence strongly supported his disloyalty. Meints later won an appeal and settled out of court in 1922."
5:08 He actually didn't anger the Roman authorities. “I find no fault in this man.” was the cry from the Roman governor to the chief priests and scribes (who were the ones who wanted him dead).
@Fredrick Frederickson you just refuted your own point in parentheses. They Jewish leaders were angered by Jesus, authorities saw this, and for the sake of not causing a rebellion they crucified Jesus.
One thing I’ve learned about humanity is that it doesn’t really matter wether you are good or evil. Everyone is obsessed with torturing each other in some way
@@evil_eye-04 It makes complete sense. He's saying the evil humans will torture the innocent, and good humans will torture the evil ones to create a sense of revenge/ judgement. Either way there is torture.
@@therainman7777 Put your thinking cap on bud. You're actually doing it right now. You're trying so hard to make yourself seem intellectually superior to me and everyone else here while likely referring to yourself as a good person and if you felt you have proven yourself right, you'd get a high off of it. You can't even have this debate without being aggressive about it.
The impaling by Vlad is mistakenly described here. The stake was blunted and put up the back side, stopping before it hit the lungs, then hoisted in the air like a flag pole. This was a slow and very painful death.
I think the Japanese tortured people with bamboo. They tied them on the ground and the bamboo would slowly grow through their bodies. I remember Mythbusters had an episode about it. Very scary.
0:18 Flaying 1:57 The Boats 3:27 Poena Cullei 5:03 Crucifixion 6:45 immurement 8:25 The Breaking Wheel 9:50 impalement 11:17 The Rack 12:38 Auto da fe 14:01 Schwedentrunk 15:17 Tarring and fearhering 16:38 Trial by Ordeal 18:04 Rat Torture 19:22 Yubitsume 20:28 White Torture
It is curious we refer to these acts as 'inhumane' and try to distance ourselves from the perpetrators by referring to them as animals or monsters... The reality is that humans are this cruel even to this day and you are in denial if you pretend under no circumstances you or someone you love would be capable of acting this cruel. In fact a distinction of humans from other animals is how willful and creative we can get in inflicting pain and terror.
Information about crucifixion: in European languages, the word “hand” means “everything from the wrist to the fingertips,” which explains the artistic convention of showing the nails through the palms.. However, if a person were crucified that way, the nails would rip through the hands and the body would just fall off the cross. The NT was written in Greek, in which language the word “hand” means “everything from the elbow to the fingertips,” which means that the nails would be driven next to the wrist between the radius and the ulna. That would support the weight of the body. Suffocation occurred because in that position, heaving up and down to breathe gradually pulls the muscles off the rib cage. Historical records of people being taken down from cross even shortly after being crucified relate that they died shortly afterwards-they were not able to breathe.
I remember reading, with the rack, that sometimes, they didn't break and pop bones and joints right away. Sometimes they would leave them stretched to the very limit for hours, then send them back to their cell, where all of their joints would get severely sore and enflamed from the stress. So before they ever got to the rack the next day, they hadn't been severely damaged, but would be in terrible pain before the session would even start. So it would be psychological torture just walking there from the soreness, and it gets them imagining how bad it would be if they had gone any further. This would often get people to talk before they'd even break a bone. I'm not sure what instances they would do it this way, but I'm assuming possibly where you couldn't afford to waste a productive human and wanted to get info from them while leaving open the possibility of being able to still leave them a productive member of society if they were willing to talk early.
Executions were public to impress the crowd with the power of the authorities. The crowd was legally required to witness the execution and to shout epithets and accusations at the condemned, on the theory that if you participate in a brutal punishment, you are less likely to commit the same crime. When the Romans threw people to the animals in a stadium, they had a soldier stand by to run the prisoner through with the sword as soon as the crowd began to sympathize with the victim. This is recorded in the martyrdom of Perpetua.
We, as humans, would like to think we have moved beyond such barbarism. But people are still being tortured every day, all over the world. It's just that in most parts of the world people are psychologically tortured. And the worst thing is, the majority of them probably don't even realize it, or see it as such.
We must all be grateful that we live in a rather peaceful time. Of course loads of people get killed, but in most cases it's a matter of ending someone's life quick and efficiently, and means of extensive torture are probably only still part in the most criminal communities existing in this society. If a normal person dies a painful death these days, they are probably surrounded by a team of educated people, trying their best to prevend the horrible passing.
It pains me to see that human beings would do this to EACH OTHER! Why would we make each other suffer gruesome, terrible fates for anyone else's gain!?
I recently had a dream about the situation in the thumbnail of this video. Lying flat on my back, looking up at some heavy brick ceiling that barely touched my nose. There was a nozzle on that ceiling and some talk about water, or the space being weird or low enough not to fill up with water. one of the most disturbing things i've ever dreamt.
While not a torture in this video, I had a pretty scary dream where I was an astronaut outside of the ship with the safety cord cut and was slowly drifting through space. It went on for a LOT longer than a normal dream would and felt fairly real at the time with the isolation and helplessness. O_O
@@feathero3 man I have real feeling dreams too that last for what feels like hours or maybe even a full day. I’ve had that space dream kind of, I end up falling towards earth but I miss earth and then will just fall into black nothingness
The worst punishment I remember was the Saw. The punishment started with hanging a male upside down, bringing out a huge tree cutter saw putting it between the legs of the person, and the going back and forth between 2 executors. The reason why this was used was cause the blood that dropped down from the punished man’s underside kept them alive until they reached the heart. I saw a video of this punishment happening in real life, and it was tormenting to watch.
@@sonny9493 Not only. Eastern Poland during 1940`s - it was one of many ways of torturing and murdering Polish civilians by Ukrainians during WWII. One of the worst nightmares of WWII and we all know what kind of war was that.
There are a million arteries in that area. You could not physically last more than a couple minutes (likely less than 45 seconds) Like you may claim to have seen it but more than likely didn't know what you saw. (No pun intended)
Fun Fact: Jesus was not executed for angering the Romans. In fact, Pontius Pilate, the Roman Preator of the region said, "I can find no fault in this man.". The Jews had him crucified for heresy. The Romans just carried it out their wishes.
I like how medieval people were so creative with torture methods but couldn't solve hygiene issues
i hate people in general
@Keithesson (Beatmaker) idc, bro
@Keithesson (Beatmaker) :)
Bro i swear
Priorities am i right
Chapters:
00:19: Flaying
01:57: The Boats
03:27: Poena Cullei (the sack)
05:03: Crucifixtion
06:45: Immurement
08:25: The Breaking wheel
09:52: Impalement
11:18: The Rack
12:38: Auto-da-fe (burnt alive)
14:01: Schwedentrunk
15:17: Tarring & Feathering
16:38: Trial by Ordeal
18:05: Rat torture
19:22: Yubitsume (slice off a little finger)
20:28: White Torture
Thanks
you're doing god's work
Ty
And #0: Graystillplays
U the real MVP
We are so lucky to be living in this time and day.
Scale 1-10. How is your tolerance to pain??
@@wolfshield2499 A good 5.
Pain is not pleasurable 🤣
hi pls reply to me ray mak
@@wolfshield2499 0/10 i cant take it
Actually, nasty tortures are still being performed today.
But they're not being showed at all to the world.
North Korea camp is a good example.
I can't even comprehend inflicting this much pain on another person, the fact that this was common back then is even more insane. We're definitely lucky to be born in this time, though I know there's still torture in some countries.
"Back then" 1915 Armenian genocide.
60 years after slavery was abolished USA.
You won't be avle to comprehend it. We are born in a completely different world. The world is an extremely complicated place. It's not as cut and dried as you'd like to think. Your environment sculpted what you perceive to be normal, good, or evil. When you're born into an extremely brutal world, these things aren't as shocking anymore.
@@pfhrmb yeah that was almost a hundred years ago so it classifies as "back then" weird how you managed to shove in slavery there. Surprised you don't have a blm profile pic.
Hamas and ISIS want to bring this back into today's world. Horrible.
I got my pinky finger flayed the other day by accident, although only about 2 inches.
It was so painful I thought I was going to die.
I cant imagine being flayed more than that!
The more you hear about these brutalities, the less surprised I am, humans can be such sadistic and evil creatures, torturing others based purely on belief, rather than a proper system of evidence based trials, even today...
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Absolutely this is actually really depressing if you really think about it.. these poor people just think about it.. years ago even now.. our mother's brother sisters daughter's sons are selves could have experienced this type of torture simply for being Jewish being Christian being Protestant being the "wrong" color skin or basically anything that disagrees what the majority believes in.... Weather is out of fear or they actually truly believe in it... In all honesty is kind of disgusting and it's kind of a truth about evil humans can be. Why the f*** can't we just f****** be nice to each other and treat others like we would like to be treated... Imagine if that Babylonian rule and eye for an eye or true?! When it comes to this type of stuff!? I don't know I'm sorry this is just depressing me..
This is why Earth should have had a second asteroid hit it a long time ago
@@gdawg1585 no, we can agree that we do terrible things but we dont want to die, except you apparently
Even your response implying it’s ok to torchure after a proper system of evidence and trials is sadistic and evil
Gotta love the upbeat inspirational music while he's describing how people can be horribly ripped apart
and at 6:16 when the doctors are learning about pain and suffering with huge smiles on their faces.
Infographics is legendary for the use of inappropriate smiling.
I couldn't finish the video because of it.
😂😂😂😂
@@vinny1883drugs alcohol pork not allowed
"I didn't do it" - gets slowly tortured. "Okay okay, i did it, even though i know i didn't" - gets killed anyways. You just can't win.
thats why in my religion, in order for someone to be completely proven guilty, is by having proof, AND at least, 4 eyewitness, and those 4 eyewitness have their requirement, which are strict, they need to be completely trusted by everyone, known to be a good unproblematic and likeable people, basically everyone best friend
@@YaToGamiKuro sounds like its ment to protect someone else in ur religion than the general religion go-ers
@@MrPaxio Would you dare make an assumption as to what religion he's talking about?(:
@@YaToGamiKuro oh dont forget, it should also be male, they must be matured and not insane and pf course not blind. We have the same religion
@@dabasil so women are free of judgement whatever they do?... nice religion
I'm loving the absolutely cheery, optimistic, hopeful, and "epic" music playing in the background while the narrator goes on about some of the most sadistic torture methods concocted by mankind. Great choice there, guys.
LOL
The heroic music made this video absurd.
Don’t ever disrespect professor info
@@patmagh Yes, it's horrible. Reminds me of some quest video game music.
Yea they should play BeeGees' Stayin Alive. Or Pearl Jams Alive.
Human evil is easily the most disgusting thing in all of this planet's history. I could never imagine myself ever wanting to hurt someone or watch someone be tortured in any of these ways or even close. Every single one of these punishments is incredibly cowardly and grotesque and I really am unable to understand what in the world goes in the head of someone capable of these things. Absolute sociopath monsters
Yeah I’m having similar thoughts myself. How did this happen? I had to stop after one minute and sixteen seconds because I was in fair danger of going lightheaded with the eventual possibility of fainting.
I’ve come across some pretty nasty ways people have died but it was usually accidental such as radiation sickness and the fate of the first officer of UPS Flight 6 from Dubai. But this? I just don’t know.
Really? The fact that "people" like rapists and pedophiles exists warrants it perfectly. I can think of plenty of reasons why I would want to do something like these punishments to someone, or worse.
@@none-ro9dz No, that doesn't make you any different than them. Nobody has the right to torture anyone. They tortured their victims, but that does not give you the right to torture them back. Just lock those wild animals away forever, with no chance of getting out. Period.
Sometimes I don't understand how people can be so cruel. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, it's just hard to watch a living thing being put on these torture methods
I think it's a perfect way to create obedience
Brazen Bull should easily be number 1, idk how it didn’t even get mentioned. The combination of not only burning, but the full body contact to the heated metal, and on top of that being in a pitch black tiny space, and the thought of people getting enjoyment out of your screams for help. When I found this torture method a few weeks ago I couldn’t sleep that whole night thinking that human beings had actually died that way and someone was sick enough to invent it. It’s a holo metal bull with a door on the side big enough for someone to be put into and shut, and there’s a some kind of horns that go from the inside out the nostril of the bull to turn the victims screams into the sound of a bull. A fire would be lit below the bull to slowly heat the inside of the bull.
thb, I am just surprised the info graphics show hasn't mentioned amputation as a punishment yet.
To be fair though, there's no legitimate reliable sources that say the bull was even used outside of stories and legends. Most notably the ironic twist that the inventor be the one roasted in it but it was never actually recorded to have been used against any criminals.
This sounds terrible,
Yeah I was waiting for it too.
It's hollow bro
Not so fun fact: When flaying was done by someone skilled, your skin was removed from the bottom up, concluded by removing all the skin on your face and head. It's referred to as "degloving". Often this was done in front of a mirror so the victim could see their own skull with eyes in the sockets. Their eyelids came off with the skin so they couldn't blink or close their eyes. They spend the next hours or days staring at their own skeleton and skull. The mental horror of the sight is unimaginable and a worse torture than any physical pain?
You’re correct but we do the front side of each limb first before moving on to the backside of the limb. Once to the neck area we go head down that’s the only time we go down. I done 4 by myself now.
@@garethh6962 How do you keep the victim from dying of blood loss? I've tried this many times and they always expire way before I can even get to the best part.
Lol this section
@@garethh6962 Interesting... And were do you work, exactly?
@GF internet
it's incredible how sick humanity is
Agreed...
Well, half of humanity.
@@AlphabetCookie nah, all of us, we have a huge desire, for destruction and disasters. It's who we are.
@@Goro69 I don't.
So speak for yourself.
This is what we are
Imagine the fear and panic people in medieval times must have felt of being wrongfully accused and mercilessly tortured to death… I mean, it's scary enough to think about being wrongfully accused now, but the torture devices they used back then must have dramatically intensified the fear. I think people really need to have and receive more compassion.
Or being wrongfully accused and torturtued so badly you confess to a crime you didn't commit to end the agony only to be sentenced to a horrible death like being boiled alive or hung drawn and quartered
Just think! If it hadn't been for the Catholic Church and Inquisition we might never have heard of the majority of these methods of torture! AMEN?
the fact that no one is punished for the war crimes and consentration camps by the US says a lot about that nation
@yt That's simply not true
@yt because it was checked multiple times. Didn't work then and doesn't work now
"How do you prove your innocence? Die!" This line is so sadistic and funny in a morbid way
Morbius
I don't know how they didn't come to the conclusion that witches were beings of light, partners with God. Since they all died by drowning and "went to heaven"...
"Only a witch could survive the drowning" bruh what if she's just a really good swimmer
I laughed at this bit. Clever people
17:53
Suddenly prison doesn't seem so bad anymore 😅
@@ZcDonalds ew
@Eat me not animations what did andy koay say?
@@mizzy98 what did Andy kydoai say
@Eat me not animations what did @andy kodyai say?
@Eat me not animations @andy kyodai what did u say???
I honestly cannot understand how is it possible to even think about something like this. Humans must be the worst specie that exists on this Earth.
No just the most intelligent
Fear Allah unseen
@@Noah-dh6seFear Allah
@@REBECCA12341 god isnt real
Have you seen chimps?
Side note: in tarring and feathering, tar was actually rarely used because it was rather expensive. More often than not a different sticky substance was used because the point of tarring and feathering isn't torture or death, it's humiliation.
Oh my god, that’s horrible. But also don’t give *them* any ideas.
Actually it was usually fatal not only because of the severe burns but because of the inability for the skin to breathe resulting in lack of oxygen in the blood.
Edit:
I have been meaning to make the necessary corrections to this comment after doing some proper research I can see the error of my statement I'd picked up that it was lethal at some point and my initial comment was merely me parroting this information My apologies I hope that my ignorance may be forgiven.
Loop up pitchcapping
@@theopronghorn4752 This is not true, we do not need our skin to breathe.
@@maya-the-shitposter i feel like you didnt understand the comment but responded anyway
Out of all the tortures on that list, I would have to say the boats is the absolute worst 2:12. You're literally being slowly eaten from the outside and inside while laying in your own excriment.
i mean yea kinda fked up but there had been worse cases
They were lucky ...they never got to experience having no internet access , i know they never had it at all but because of that they dont the pain of not being able to reply to a flat earther or hardline religious nut
Flaying is up there too
Scaphism is the actual term
@@djdeemz7651 😐
“Video games cause violence!”
The world before video games:
Ikr
Yeah. But playing killing games can actually effect the mind. But not that much. It's bad for you but not lethal.
"the world" ?
Right lol
I kinda think video games stimulate our violent, sadistic urges so that we don't do stuff in rl, they pacify us instead of triggering us after getting our daily fill of violence. Just a theory.
having had a dislocated shoulder multiple times, i can't fanthom what "the rack would do to a person and the immense pain, truely sickening.
The narrator’s voice, It’s so soothing and factual with a dash of sarcasm. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
yes he even manages to make torture seem a little bit ok !!
@@cspace1234nz a bit ok?????? 😬
@@LSAGT ....yeah just a bit, from a safe distance that is. Hardly a scary voice is it ?
The sarcasm of his pitch at the end, was hilarious. "What about the children?" What the narrator was basically saying: If you guys think this video was bad, ohhh, I got another one for you. ;)
Except when he talks about political and geopolitical topics.
One of the few people to not give information while tortured with the rack was Anne Askew, a Tudor woman who was accused of being a Christian heretic (for reading the Bible to the poor and illiterate, and for asking to divorce an abusive husband), and she refused to give the names of others to make it stop. And they didn’t go easy on her, as Henry the 8th bizarrely had it out for her and then had her carried to the stake (as she couldn’t walk) to be burned.
The Tudor Court treated any dissident as potentially dangerous. The fear was that the religious dissidents would set fire to Church of England property and cause riots. In some cases they were indeed correct!
@Bean sprout 🌱💞 almost ALL the King Henrys, were psychopaths and their children, as well. King Henry III, was King Edward Longshanks, father, from the, mostly, historically true movie, Braveheart, with Mel Gibson, playing as, William Wallace, of Scotland.🤔🤷
true movie?
@@yknowiknow5937 Hold on a minute. Braveheart "mostly, historically true" ?? Hahahahahahahahahahaha snort hahahahaha
@@christianfreedom-seeker934 Christians were sooo horrable !!
"The Dark Ages" means the "obscured/unknown ages" like "dark side of the moon" and has nothing to do with it being a particularly brutal time in history, we just don't know much about it because a lot of records & such were destroyed.
also they didn't record as much in the early centuries of the middle ages since they needed more pragmatic skills at the time and place
Bro I have a four years of college and I'm now a respiratory therapist and yet I never knew this about The Dark Ages. It's awesome to actually learn something in a RUclips comment. Thanks for posting, truly.
@@26michaeluk congratulations on being a RT! Quite an achievement! Thank you for what you do to help people!
The funny thing is, most nations had Chroniclers at the time that recorded who was King and what the major events were. The Era is misnamed. Because we know so much about the period, perhaps it is better to call it the "Post Roman Germanic period" or "the Era of Charlemange"
@@26michaeluk i wouldnt look into someones comment as anything factual. they have literally nothing to gain or lose but its definitely fun to troll.
So, is the loud, distracting background music the Infographics Show's way of torturing it's viewers?
The Boats is also called scaphism.
Everything I have ever studied regarding crucifixion maintains individuals did not just hang by their arms because if such were the case, said individuals would have died within minutes as a result of positional asphyxia. (Think back to hanging from the monkey bars when you were a kid. Remember how if you just hung from the bars it was very difficult to breathe?) The torturers needed to keep the condemned alive to suffer. In order to accomplish this, a peg or small ledge was placed beneath the feet so that the knees were slightly bent. This allowed the crucified individual to take pressure off their arms by pushing themselves up by their feet. This so-called ledge would only be large enough for one foot however, and since the feet were tied so that one foot was atop the other, the individual would be unable to alternate between feet, thus putting twice the pressure and strain on one foot and leg. Eventually, the individual would run out of the energy needed to push himself up by his feet in order to continue to breathe, and I think we all know what happens when a human can no longer get oxygen into their body.
Oh, and fyi: crucifixion still happens today.
This is horrible. And that it still happens today is worse
Bruhhhh…brutality reaching its peak
It's wild to think that for every type of torture there was one guy whose job it was to sit down and think of ways to make it even more horrific, right down to a science. "Like okay, so we came up with this torture where you nail someone up by their wrists and leave them to die... good. Great. But I don't think that's evil *enough.* Hmm... okay, stay with me, now... how about if we make them *think* they're getting a bit of relief by placing a ledge under their feet to rest on, see? Dangle that false hope in front of them. But ah ha! we'll tie their feet in such a way that forces their weight onto one leg. This will not only exhaust them while prolonging their pain at the same time, but we get to inflict some grade-A psychological torture, as well!" **Insert evil supervillain laugh**
Man, I can't finish this video right now. After the water/boiling water/sewage funnel torture thingy I'm... wow. Gonna go watch cat videos...
Me too...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
If it makes you feel any better the last one is you just sit in a white room
Smart move!
sewage funnel torture is that being locked in same room with swedish ''delicacy'', surtrömming?
I think we can agree that a majority of tortures are worse than death
129 poo dogg
Which is literally the point.
@@Chillerll Which is also the point I’m making
What about death by snoo snoo ?
unless you survive
Heartly RIP to all the victems of any forms of torture..
May your soul truly rest and liberate
This is the nicest comment I have read under such a video. We need more "badboy" like you! Have a great day
@@prof.bizzarro ♡
@@badboysandhudon't die as a disbeliever
There was a torture method where people would pour molten lead down the accused's mouth.
There's a similar one where they'd take what looked like a baby rattle with holes and fill it with lead and heat it up to get the lead molten and shake little beads molten lead onto the faces and bodies of the accused.
There was one guy who had loved his wealth and they melted his gold and poured it down his throat
or molten gold just for a little "spice"
Molten lead? That's horrifying! Don't they know that this could cause cancer a few decades down the line??
shake beads from a rattle?? 🤣doesn't sound very practical
@@abdullahfahad7067 haha yeah, some dude down here in Chile wanted gold, they gave him gold.
And I think some greasy pole too.
The fact that we get free videos on RUclips by The Infographics Show is truly a gift. 👍👍👍
👍
👎
"documentaries"
The animation is just so generic-looking. And this isn't a "documentary", this is more of a commentary lol
Ever heard of advertisements??
Lol, _nothing_ is “free”
For me, the most horrifying thing is not the tortures themselves, but the fact that they have always been done our thousands of years and by every different culture and society throughout history.
They didn't have TV back then
@@sportsfix6975 I love you
I concur
And by religious people.
Not always and not every culture. Not in Africa and mostly by religious groups. These were punishments as well, do you find it hard to follow the rules of society? Maybe you should be concerned.
It’s crazy how nowadays when some people get arrested they find it the worst day of there lives thinking the world is over for them and then hearing these torture methods that are scary as heck
Like it’s their fault to get arrested I mean it’s not as bad
As THIS-
I love how triumphant and wholesome the music is while talking about how criminals have been put to suffer
And everybody not being tortured is smiling.
Ikr the BGM sounds like those "come join us for financial independence, brighter future for your kids"
We truly are a messed up group of people at times
We still are. Those who forget tend to repeat the past. Keep your eyes open
@@eligreg99 this. You are wise.
@@eligreg99 We’re still more ethical than every other species.
You would be surprised how messed up the average person still is.
Who tf is we? Speak for yourself
"And they would be burned to death while still alive" you truly are a wordsmith infographics.
u forgot stepping on a lego
LOL
bruh
Fr lol
During crucifixion, if the condemned person was deemed to be "taking too long" to die, the executioners would sometimes break the legs of the crucified. The shock on the body, after hours or even days of hanging, would generally mean quick albeit unbelievably painful death
One man's crucifixion however saved us all and we should all remember that fact.
lol fact...good one
Also the "crosses" were X shaped and not the cross shape we know today
@@slipstreamxr3763 amen to that friend
@@azazelswings6194 False. It was an upright stake/tree.
The witch drowning always confused me. Don't they realize that if the woman in question really had magic, she wouldn't have been caught in the first place?
It was no escape: sunk = innocent, but they waited to long, until person will be floated to the surface: floating was guilty. But some moment the body will come up, mostly after the person had drowned :(.
Women who where independent, different, smart etc were called witch. They were a threat to the men.
There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
- Are there? What are they? Tell us. - Do they hurt?
- Tell me, what do you do with witches?
- Burn them!
- And what do you burn, apart from witches?
- More witches!..............Wood!
- So why do witches burn?
- 'Cause they're made of wood?
- Good!
- And how do we tell if she is made of wood?
- Build a bridge out of her.
- But can you not also make bridges out of stone?
- Oh, yeah.
@@flixtrue6300 Around 10-15% of all people executed for witchcraft were men. Most accusers and those having made written complaints against supposed witches were women.
The patriarchy was built and maintained by both men *and* women. Not all, but most.
They did realise it. It was often used to silence women who had a mind of their own, and proved to be problematic. They knew there was no chance of their survival but by accusing them of witchcraft, they had a "legitimate" (according to their twisted religion) means to deal with them.
@@flixtrue6300 No they weren't. Most accusations came from other women. Just like today, a woman's greatest enemy usually is another woman.
1:53 "flaying is nothing compared to..." Nah man, just no.. if anything, flaying should be at very top alongside brazen bull, impalement, sawing and quartered..
YES.
It’s hard to imagine the mindset people had back then but i guarantee if we were living in those times we would have the same mindsets which is crazy to think about
We still do. Look at all the horror movies for instance saw. People are still coming up with horrible way to inflict pain on others we are just more civilized that in most cases we don't actually act on these things we just come up with them and put them in movies and guess what we all go and see them. Humans have a weird obsession with pain. I wish I knew the psychology behind it! 😮 horrifying and yet fascinating.
@@thefoxeshideawayyou have an intersting point. They used to go to public executions or Collosseum for entertainment. And now we see movies with this kind of things as entertainment.
So… we are just the same, but now we don’t have to do these things in real life?
@@EM-wr9yy I don't think so. There's a small number of people who enjoy the gore. A little more that enjoy the violence. But the vast majority of people tend to enjoy the storyline and spectacle. Even in the coliseum you mentioned, the event organizers made a lot of effort to create spectacle and some kind of "storyline" (a bit like modern 'wrestling'). And before formal 'civilizations', ancient tribes typically entertain themselves with some kind of weed and telling folk tales around campfires and dancing... etc... Even the public executions often have some kind of spectacle building sets and stuff. Not saying that some people don't like violence or are fascinated by pain, but I think more than anything else, people like spectacles, anything out of the ordinary.
@@Urza26 Yeah, that could be! I agree with what you said, but I still find it weird how many of these “spectacles” are centered around pain. The violence makes it more interesting… And I am even more impressed by how creative humans are when it comes to creating pain. For example: different methods of tourture. I could never be able to come up with such crazy ideas of torturing somebody! But it seems like some humans just have it in their blood.
People still believe in religion, lol. We haven't changed much at all, and I doubt we ever will.
Knowing what I was in store for there's NO FREAKING WAY I'd be taken alive for these torturous punishments...
you'd be overwhelmed and overpowered, they would indeed take you alive
Yeah if I had a weapon I'm not using it on them
Human beings are sick and this video shows it. How can you put someone through so much agony as these torture methods? I don't even want to try to imagine.
Then going home at the end of their shift, asking their partners how their day went. Only to continue the next day. Hmm, let’s see, where did we left off?
@@westerlywinds5684 Sounds a lot better than a slow agonizing death like the ones in this video. It feels good to ask people about their day, if you're a kind human being.
Took me 4 hours to finish this video.. i was always reading up on these torture methods and going down one rabbit hole after another.. wow!
Surprise you haven't seen this video on the other 100 same themed and recycle methods. WW2 video next. Get your notes ready.
Adderall, eh?
@@OsmosisJones-0925 😂😂
This is just crazy and truly heartbreaking. Mankind can be so cruel to one another. We're all brothers and sisters of God above. I am glad we are living in the present and not the past.
According to the book 📖 of revelation, it's about to get far much worse then anytime in history
You actually forgot about the blood eagle. It's a torture method used by old nordic people at the peak of the viking age. In that torture, a person would be kneeled and then their back cut open, ribs pulled to the front and lungs would be left hanging over the victim's shoulders. If a victim didn't make any noise, they would go to Valhalla. It was used only for persons that had some significance (as in a Jarl or a king). It was the last chance for that person to die glorious death.
He covered it it another video
They did cover it, and it might not even be true. The blood eagle...
got Its own video
There are no confirmed cases of that torture though
This is not a confirmed form of torture and is viewed as purely a myth. They didn't forget about anything.
Actually, for the trial of fire, if you didn't get burns, you'd be considered a witch and sentenced to death. If you had burns, you'd be innocent
If you were accused of being a witch they would throw you in the river if you floated you were a witch and would be burned at the stake.
If you sank you'd be innocent but dead.
ok
Well that makes perfect sense ! Why don't we continue this practice? After all god knows what he is doing otherwise how could his church become so rich.
@@julianwaugh8221 ???
People are so superstitious aren't they
Got a love the upbeat tone as horrific descriptions of torture are described. Sweet.
Every second of this video is extremely captivating! The clear explanation and great illustrations helped me understand the topic more deeply. This is truly a video worth watching!
Human beings were, are, and will be forever despicable.
So your saying we should reduce our population?
I would say "some human beings" - don't generalize to the whole population.
So you are too??
This is why I welcome World War III. Only those prepared with underground "personal societies" will get through, and thus are likely to be decent.
And so are practically every other animal in existence.
Me as a human being: the human race was a mistake.
Me as an author: *takes notes.*
On a more serious note, for all the problems in the world today I am glad that at least some of human society has renounced such barbaric ways of dealing with those deemed undesirable.
Amen to that bro...freaking Amen
I dunno, man. Being canceled on twitter seems pretty bad.
im glad i am not born that long ago
I don't know, I still say there should be an exception made for anybody sick in the head enough to sexually abuse a child. If I had a daughter and she fell victim to a person like that, I'd wish scaphism or iron bull torture were still a thing.
Or apply "an eye for an eye" here. If a person is cruel and unsually violent to somebody (it's happened in the modern day - ever seen the MrBallen video about the man who hunted people for sport or the TheyWillKillYou video about the woman who disemboweled her own mother?) should be punished equally or worse than what they did.
@@zacharyengle4256 doesnt that mean you are equally as a monster as they are then
I've been subscribed to this channel for a long time, and let me just say, you guys, your knowledge of torture is unparalleled, it's really incredible to see how much time and effort you guys put into finding out all the horrible and cruel things that humans have done to each other, great video guys.
I cant tell if this is a compliment or a jnsult
What does that say about us who enjoy these? 🤣
I feel like these are auto generated. They release way too many and a lot are mishmashed versions of eachother
Why am I laughing so hard? 😂😂😂
@@civiccc stop capping today. these are real humans, i hope, otherwise im not real
I could only watch some of this video but it is extremely well made. It gives you an appreciation for modern civilization.
I could never imagine myself ever attending an execution for entertainment. This is sick
The spectators had very little else to do.
I’m sure that there was a social element involved that made people feel pressured to attend or risk being associated with the guilty party and tortured themselves.
It's really no different than watching a violent movie. If you've watched John Wick you've seen thousands of executions.
@@Levi-ft9ixThat's just a movie though. Violent movies are not even close to watching a person die in real life right in front of you. It's a totally different experience. It's not like in the movies.
But....They didn't have TV.
I'm glad I live in the 21st century, that's all I'll say.
I bet it'll be even better to live in the XXII century. Unless of course... We revert to the Middle ages after a massive Armageddon.
Ow
Enhanced interrogation techniques
White room torture is still in use. As is sleep deprivation, waterboarding, etc ...
@@ApocGuy in my opinon the worst crime in the intire universe dont even deserve this even the most evil person doesn't deserve such pain
The blood eagle is also a pretty brutal method used by the scandinavians
There is no evidence for the blood eagle as depicted in modern litterature
But kinda cool though
@ElementZero Without getting too graphic, they'd pull someone's lungs out from behind so the lungs would look like wings and let them stay that way until the end
@@Rlyeh_The_Deadend of time? End of the line? End of Avatar 2 the way of water?
Yes but Lingchi was more brutal
When some people say "In the old days, people were better." = No. Humans were always HORRIBLE. They enjoyed causing horrible pain to others.
Glad we have more modern ways to entertain people... like youtube.
@@TexasCat99 I was going to say- Thank God for Netflix
Watching these inhuman punishment.. I can’t imagine how low a human being can go . Just watching these punishments give cold chills to bone…
To this point I still don’t get the word “inhumane” this punishments are literally made by humans they are humane punishments it’s not like some Satan came and gave the instructions guide
9:05
Person: Getting Executed
Public: Bro, killin' ain't fun. It's boring, plz spice it up by doin' sum more torture, eh?
Great video, but how come the "brazen bull" wasn't mentioned? It's way more sadistic then any of this punishments..
It was mentioned in another video
Yeah, brazen bull or sawing are probably the worst imo.
It's a method of execution not torture
@@DGB_251 so is crucifixion, it’s torture and then death
5:07 Actually, Jesus was not crucified for angering the Roman authorities. He was crucified because He angered the Sanhedrin, the Jewish church authorities. The Romans could have cared less. Pontius Pilate even said, "I find no basis for charging this man" and actually wanted to let Him go, but finally gave in, fearing that a riot would happen if he did. Pilate even told them, "Take Him and crucify Him yourselves."
Flaying if used today would be “frowned upon”…immediate PTSD of seeing a modern cartel video with them doing it kicks in
Woooooooah. I watched one of those "terroist decapitation" videos, and your comment made me think of it, instantly. That video REALLY freaked me out, man.
It’s the funky town video that still scares me to this day.
@@johnhaug1281 I don't even wanna search it up.
@@sour3000 that has to be the worst skinning video I’ve ever seen and the fact they had medical IVs up their arms keeping them alive is haunting
@@HopsinThaGoat the IV thing isn’t proven
The most horrific punishments were always dealt out to those challenging authority.
*religious authority most often
No hate like a religious person's love
@@unsolicitedditkapics9722 no there’s no hate like hate, people were doing this outwith religious institutions
@@unsolicitedditkapics9722 it's easy to justify even the worst of things when you believe that it's God's will for you to do it, and also if you see this life as a fraction of how long life after death lasts. From an evolutionary perspective, human empathy is necessary to preserve our own kind. But if you don't believe in evolution, you have no use for it.
@@unsolicitedditkapics9722 everyone in the world is "religious"
all religion is is just a belief in something and a set of morals, you can define it as believing in some God but thats reductioninst
in actuality everyone everywhere follows a moral code and way of life they believe without any evidence, anyone ever who opposes societies beliefs whatever they are will be persucuted, it has nothing to do with religion, especially since you guys don't even believe religion is true it must have been made by man in the first place
so the real issue here is humans are evil and make up reasons to be evil
@@AM-bm9rs You mistake being religious with being devoted. Religion means not only to believe in a god/goddess but to believe that that deity communicates with humans. Something by the way no human has been able to scientifically prove. When a priest rapes a child or a Muslim suicide bombs a building we feel bad because it is in our nature to feel bad. Well, most of us feel bad…🤨
About the breaking wheel:
In the german region where I come from, it was common for towns and cities to have a so-called "gallow's hill" where death sentences would be carried out (many of those places still bear names such as "gallow's hill" or similar).
As the most common practice in the region besides hanging was the breaking wheel, the people there developed their own (literal) spin on it:
They would break the delinquents limbs with the wheel, and then weave him into the spokes and tie him up. After that, the wheel with the person on it would be pushed over the hill's edge and rolled down again and again until the sentenced person would be dead.
Ouch
Similar to putting the convict in a barrel, hammer multiple nails into the barrel, and then rolling it down hill.
The Brazen Bull has to be one of the most horrific methods of dying ever invented. It haunts me.
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Just subscribed to your channel my man. Look forward to listening to some stories.
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@@justsomeguywholikesanimes OH!
I've always thought the obliette is the worst way to go. Put yourself in the headspace of being dropped into a hole not big enough to stand, and not long enough to lay down. Sharp rocks dig into you and you are put into a slurry of water and feces. The grate over the top is directly over your head. Occasionally the filthiest water imaginable pour into the space and you hold your face up to the grate to prevent drowning. The water can't be drank but as dehydration sets in you drink the slurry, making you as sick as you've ever been. Weeks in you feel sharp sticks pushing into your back and after several days of attempting to move the sharpe point you finally manage to pull it above the filth and see that it's actually rotting human bones and you realize the slurry you have been living in has been the decomposing corpse of the last man who has been put in. You cannot sleep without jolting awake when your head lowers into the horrid slurry and you breath it in. Hours feel like days, days feel like months. You go mad screaming to be released or killed but quickly realize you will never see or hear another human ever again. You eventually die from dehydration and infection from your body marinating in a soup of urine, feces, and human decomposition. By the time you die, you've gone so mad that you cannot even remember that you had a life before this hole. This is all you know anymore. In reality you aren't even really killed, and yet there is no chance you will survive. During your psychotic breaks from reality you fantasize about the sweet relief of being burned to death or hanged.
youre smart AND you deserve a good life
An ancestor of mine was famously hung, drawn and quartered for treason which was considered one of the worst forms of execution which I won't outline here but I think that boiling in oil was the only method considered worse at the time. Nobles who had to be executed were simply beheaded. Knowing what happened to my ancestor has always made me wonder about how terribly people were made to suffer under judicial investigation or execution and so i found this video very informative if a little depressing.
Some the crushing method to avoid spilling blood, where stones are put on their body until suffocation occurs. St Margaret Clitherow was on the wrong end of this one.
Pedos & American politicians have become far too comfortable with this tradition being retired. If only
You are descended from a traitor?
The level of creative energy for torture was something to behold. Imagine our progress today if we used this energy back then to create and build, rather than to torture.
“My lord, I think I just discovered electricity!”
“Shut up Johnson. We don’t have time for that. We’re brainstorming how best to remove the skin from a thief.”
1:19 i like how he smiles after saying ''Peaple can surive a few days after being flayed'' like why is he smiling?
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It's fun! I personally do it so I can have new skin suits to hide my monstrous form too scarring for the human eyes.
Imagine going through that. It makes you think about the fact that many people have gone through this and that's crazy, you can't even start to think how agonizing that would be (I would definitely expect the crime rates to be lower, no matter their circumstances) .
Think about the fact that there are people RIGHT NOW going through such things.
John Meints was actually tarred and feathered in 1918, not 1912. It would have been weird to punish him for not supporting the war bond drive a full two years before the war had even started.
Proof???
@@TheChristianWood I knew it couldn't have been 1912 because the war was from 1914-1918 and the US didn't enter the war until 1917 so I looked it up. There are a few pages, including an obituary, all giving the same date. Best description comes from the Wikipedia article for tarring and feathering: "On August 19, 1918, amidst anti-German sentiment during World War I, German-American farmer John Meints (misspelled Meintz) was taken from his home in Luverne, Minnesota and driven to the border with South-Dakota. There, masked locals whipped him, threatened to shoot him, and tarred-and-feathered him, forcing him to cross the border and threatening to hang him if he returned. Meints named 32 of the men involved in a lawsuit, but they were acquitted, with the judge instructing the jury that the evidence strongly supported his disloyalty. Meints later won an appeal and settled out of court in 1922."
Sometimes I catch myself thinking we deserve to go extinct. Like some asteroid wiping us out completely. We are a disgusting species.
0:58 That is disgusting, can't imagine witnessing that..
Crucifixion is still used as a method of execution in Syria, Sudan and Iran.
5:08 He actually didn't anger the Roman authorities. “I find no fault in this man.” was the cry from the Roman governor to the chief priests and scribes (who were the ones who wanted him dead).
@Fredrick Frederickson you just refuted your own point in parentheses. They Jewish leaders were angered by Jesus, authorities saw this, and for the sake of not causing a rebellion they crucified Jesus.
The official reason why Jesus was executed, was because he committed the crime of “Blasphemy”.
@@smashingthreeplates2171He never committed blasphemy they accused him
@@javierpinas3714 That’s why I quoted it.
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Im on a binge! Can't stop watching lol
19:07 wow!... I can recognize every building/monument in that drawing... good job!
10:57 What is the source for impaling of the Armenian civilians? I couldn't find any reliable source.
I can tell you who not to ask: Turks.
I'm Armenian, and while I hadn't heard of this specific incident, many other terrible things happened during the Armenian Genocide.
The way the world is, I'm not surprised this stuff happened. It's absolutely terrifying, disgusting, and sadistic.
It's not sadistic if you do it to a criminal
One thing I’ve learned about humanity is that it doesn’t really matter wether you are good or evil. Everyone is obsessed with torturing each other in some way
This makes no sense
@@evil_eye-04 It makes complete sense. He's saying the evil humans will torture the innocent, and good humans will torture the evil ones to create a sense of revenge/ judgement. Either way there is torture.
Thats called sin
@@maddg7471 No, it really doesn’t. Good people do not all want to torture bad people. That’s an idiotic overstatement and inaccurate generalization.
@@therainman7777 Put your thinking cap on bud. You're actually doing it right now. You're trying so hard to make yourself seem intellectually superior to me and everyone else here while likely referring to yourself as a good person and if you felt you have proven yourself right, you'd get a high off of it. You can't even have this debate without being aggressive about it.
When you accidentally drop your pizza while taking it out of the oven is probably the worst
No way
The impaling by Vlad is mistakenly described here. The stake was blunted and put up the back side, stopping before it hit the lungs, then hoisted in the air like a flag pole. This was a slow and very painful death.
christ is on your side my friend, well thats if youre religious, cause im not.
@@duranfriendlystudiosassoci1351 ?
And it was not a point, so no organs would be pierced.
Time to schedule that colonoscopy
I think the Japanese tortured people with bamboo. They tied them on the ground and the bamboo would slowly grow through their bodies. I remember Mythbusters had an episode about it. Very scary.
Thanks for the information, now I know what to do to my siblings if they annoy me
0:18 Flaying
1:57 The Boats
3:27 Poena Cullei
5:03 Crucifixion
6:45 immurement
8:25 The Breaking Wheel
9:50 impalement
11:17 The Rack
12:38 Auto da fe
14:01 Schwedentrunk
15:17 Tarring and fearhering
16:38 Trial by Ordeal
18:04 Rat Torture
19:22 Yubitsume
20:28 White Torture
Shut up
Thnx
Flayed? New word em?
@@jasoniverson4715 it's a typo.. Grow tf up
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It is curious we refer to these acts as 'inhumane' and try to distance ourselves from the perpetrators by referring to them as animals or monsters... The reality is that humans are this cruel even to this day and you are in denial if you pretend under no circumstances you or someone you love would be capable of acting this cruel. In fact a distinction of humans from other animals is how willful and creative we can get in inflicting pain and terror.
Crazy what selfishness leads to. There’s extremely altruistic people so there’s a duality at least.
Spoken like a true apex predator 😂
A lot more than even you think
@Ross Rick good fir you pal
@pop, you are right on. We all love to think we’d be different. Possibly. Most likely, not.
God, if I were put through ANY of this, I would tell them anything and everything. I don't care if I'm going against my country, I prefer living.
You prefer living? I prefer dying fast
The thing is the confession was was used to condemn you to death and the execution was usually worse so confessing just made it worse.
what if its your mother,father,family,friends?
That's the neat part...you won't get to live either way...you tell them or not tell them
@@JeanRozentalski hehe someone's here pessimistic ಠ﹏ಠ
"NO-ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition! Fetch... the comfy chair!!" "NI!"
Information about crucifixion: in European languages, the word “hand” means “everything from the wrist to the fingertips,” which explains the artistic convention of showing the nails through the palms.. However, if a person were crucified that way, the nails would rip through the hands and the body would just fall off the cross. The NT was written in Greek, in which language the word “hand” means “everything from the elbow to the fingertips,” which means that the nails would be driven next to the wrist between the radius and the ulna. That would support the weight of the body. Suffocation occurred because in that position, heaving up and down to breathe gradually pulls the muscles off the rib cage. Historical records of people being taken down from cross even shortly after being crucified relate that they died shortly afterwards-they were not able to breathe.
10:53 Source: trust me bro
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@@yusuf.317 annene selam söyle
The narrator's voice is one of the reasons I enjoy this channel.
I love that the animation looks like it's made for children but these topics and stories are so brutal lol
Fun fact: He was kinda hated at first, when the former narrator left
I remember reading, with the rack, that sometimes, they didn't break and pop bones and joints right away. Sometimes they would leave them stretched to the very limit for hours, then send them back to their cell, where all of their joints would get severely sore and enflamed from the stress. So before they ever got to the rack the next day, they hadn't been severely damaged, but would be in terrible pain before the session would even start. So it would be psychological torture just walking there from the soreness, and it gets them imagining how bad it would be if they had gone any further. This would often get people to talk before they'd even break a bone. I'm not sure what instances they would do it this way, but I'm assuming possibly where you couldn't afford to waste a productive human and wanted to get info from them while leaving open the possibility of being able to still leave them a productive member of society if they were willing to talk early.
Executions were public to impress the crowd with the power of the authorities. The crowd was legally required to witness the execution and to shout epithets and accusations at the condemned, on the theory that if you participate in a brutal punishment, you are less likely to commit the same crime. When the Romans threw people to the animals in a stadium, they had a soldier stand by to run the prisoner through with the sword as soon as the crowd began to sympathize with the victim. This is recorded in the martyrdom of Perpetua.
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It was also used as a form of entertainment, given that there was no TV at the time.
We, as humans, would like to think we have moved beyond such barbarism. But people are still being tortured every day, all over the world. It's just that in most parts of the world people are psychologically tortured. And the worst thing is, the majority of them probably don't even realize it, or see it as such.
You sound so cheery while talking about torture that it's almost a tad disturbing, love it :)
We must all be grateful that we live in a rather peaceful time. Of course loads of people get killed, but in most cases it's a matter of ending someone's life quick and efficiently, and means of extensive torture are probably only still part in the most criminal communities existing in this society.
If a normal person dies a painful death these days, they are probably surrounded by a team of educated people, trying their best to prevend the horrible passing.
It pains me to see that human beings would do this to EACH OTHER! Why would we make each other suffer gruesome, terrible fates for anyone else's gain!?
They are possessed .
Because, y’know, the “victims” are horrible people?
Because the victims deserve it.
@@matthewjones39 there’s no way whatever the victims did is equal to any of these punishments
@Y A Dolphins actually do torture other animals on purpose and so do primeapes, both of these are intellegent species.
I recently had a dream about the situation in the thumbnail of this video.
Lying flat on my back, looking up at some heavy brick ceiling that barely touched my nose.
There was a nozzle on that ceiling and some talk about water, or the space being weird or low enough not to fill up with water.
one of the most disturbing things i've ever dreamt.
I had a recurring one like that.
Also was there any mention in the video, of the thumbnail situation? I can't find it.
While not a torture in this video, I had a pretty scary dream where I was an astronaut outside of the ship with the safety cord cut and was slowly drifting through space. It went on for a LOT longer than a normal dream would and felt fairly real at the time with the isolation and helplessness. O_O
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That's a very possible way to die! Glad you escaped.
Me too had a horrible dream like that but when I woke up ,my fat cat sitting onto my chest..
@@feathero3 man I have real feeling dreams too that last for what feels like hours or maybe even a full day. I’ve had that space dream kind of, I end up falling towards earth but I miss earth and then will just fall into black nothingness
The worst punishment I remember was the Saw. The punishment started with hanging a male upside down, bringing out a huge tree cutter saw putting it between the legs of the person, and the going back and forth between 2 executors.
The reason why this was used was cause the blood that dropped down from the punished man’s underside kept them alive until they reached the heart. I saw a video of this punishment happening in real life, and it was tormenting to watch.
Cartel or something was it?
@@sonny9493 Not only. Eastern Poland during 1940`s - it was one of many ways of torturing and murdering Polish civilians by Ukrainians during WWII. One of the worst nightmares of WWII and we all know what kind of war was that.
There are a million arteries in that area. You could not physically last more than a couple minutes (likely less than 45 seconds) Like you may claim to have seen it but more than likely didn't know what you saw. (No pun intended)
Fun Fact: Jesus was not executed for angering the Romans. In fact, Pontius Pilate, the Roman Preator of the region said, "I can find no fault in this man.". The Jews had him crucified for heresy. The Romans just carried it out their wishes.