Were Iron Maidens Ever Actually Used?
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The people of the Middle Ages have a reputation for wanton brutality and, as supposed evidence of this, countless instruments of torture sit in museums around the world, arguably the most famous of which being the Iron Maiden.
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"Put them in the iron maiden."
"Iron Maiden? Excellent!"
"Execute them."
"Bogus!"
@@Pining_for_the_fjords Run to the hills....
I love Led Zeppilin
🤘🏻 *Party on dudes!* 🤘🏻
@@aprilkurtz1589 From Blackadder:
Prince Edmund:
They're coming! Run for the hills!
Baldrick:
No, my lord! They're coming from the hills!
Prince Edmund:
Run away from the hills! Run away from the hills! If you see the hills, go the other way!
Stuff like the iron maiden is why us bigfoots just stay deep in the wilderness
Ive seen you before.
Roam free, gentle Sasquatch.
Wait....can I say "Sasquatch", or is that, like, your people's word?
A Bigfoot deep in the wilderness has internet access, and my signal goes out three times a day. The world is just now a cruel joke.
@@ianlorenc i think you are ok as long as you dont use a hard Q
@bigfoot
That's why I set the wilderness in Australia on fire.
Wait...which continent do you live on?
No? How strange I tortured many weak neighbours with Iron Maiden when I was young.
you mean entertained them
Blessed them
Subjecting neighbours to _Iron Maiden_ isn't *torture* - it's a musical *education*
"Turn down that racket or I'll call the cops!"
I don't always listen to Iron Maiden, but when I do, so do the neighbors.
"Nether Region Danglybits" is the name of my new polka band.
TIFO: Were Iron Maidens ever actually used?
Me: I only know that they made great rock songs
then tenacious D rocked them off.
*metal songs
I've actually seen the copy of the iron maiden destroyed in nurnberg during WW2. It's at a crime and punishment museum in Rottenburg an der Tauber in Germany.
If you're intrested in torture and execution devices, it's definitely something you don't want to miss if you get the chance to go.
Thank you for answering my question about why I saw one at the Rothenburg museum. So it was the copy...
@@tinaamiri7288 Yes, an extremely well made copy, but a copy none the less.
That's a cool museum!
Patrick susse kind
“You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back
The bugle sounds as the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As you plunge into a certain death
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh”
Iron Maiden 1983
iron maiden...excellent
They were a wee bit into British battle history, eh mate?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not gonna lie, was expecting Iron Maiden band bonus facts
Same!
Iron Maiden? Excellent! 🎸
Torture them!
@@brianlehmkuhl8162 Bogus!
Dammit, you beat me.
RUN TO THE HILLS!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!
Short answer: Yes, to bring awesome metal on stage!
🤘
After all Iron Maiden had "To Take a Land"
Now I've gotta listen to Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden on Iron Maiden
That's almost as good as black sabbath by black sabbath on black sabbath
@@Brandon-dy8us Come on! What about Motörhead by Motörhead from the album Motörhead?
Iron maiden can't be fought!
Skip the damn intro ad. 1:40
@today I found out: There is a torture Museum in Rottenburg, Germany adressing this, including an "historical Iron maiden" where they adress this myth and how it is a fairly recent myth and was never use. Also its a creepy, but interesting museum
I think I visited that museum when I was 6 years old
I’ve been to that museum. Sone of the real tortures are so much worse
Beard is looking extra thick there Simmon. All this script wisdom must be rubbing off on you. Soon you shall be the wizardiest of RUclips fact shows.
What lvl wizard is he
You're a wizard, Simon.
You obviously haven't seen business blaze
But was Judas Priest a real person?
I thought that was another name for Judas Iscariot.
@@MonkeyKingsformerroomate It's from a Bob Dylan song.
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@@johnwescott1500 oh, good to know. Thanks
Judas Priest is a euphemism for Jesus Christ. It's as an expression of disgust. It originated in the beginning of the 20th century.
@@malavoy1 nice, thank you too.
I love the sentence, "So-called house of horrors hotel." As though there's any question as to whether or not Holmes' hotel was a "house of horrors." It's ok Simon, it's not slander if it's true and the serial killer is centuries dead. Last time I checked, gas lines and false walls (and many other customizations) specifically designed to torture and murder guests constitute a confirmed "house of horrors."
I don't think he meant it as "If it is true" more like,"that is what it is called for lack of a better name".
Well, the hotel was not literally called "house of horrors", and a house of horrors is not a term, the building just was commonly called that. AFAIK, the expression's applicable even if the name is not doubted.
My son was part of the invasion of Iraq, and was in on the bombing of Uday's palace. They found lions, tigers and other animals of prey that Uday evidently had fed people to in the basement of the palace. Horrible...
Up the Irons! Oh wait, it's not about the band...
If that torture device was modelled on his wife, just imagine the one he modelled on his mother-in-law!
Underrated comment for sure!
It's called the guilatine
Ms Trunchbull tried to put me in the chokey one time.
I was waiting for this comment you need more likes
Matilda! Awesome book!! 😃
😂 I member watching that movie when I was a kid the flying carrots I thought was hilarious
Thank you for this. Matilda.
Iron Maiden is the greatest metal band of all time!!! RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER!!!
Edit: Oh this wasn't about the band. Nonetheless, still the greatest band!
The torture and execution methods used in medieval and ancient times were beyond horrific.
They show just how merciless and grotesque human nature can be.
When you've got torture as bad as being broken on the wheel, who needs an iron maiden?
Fact
You know you watch a lot of Simon when you see this video and think, "That is the longest that I ever saw his beard!"
1:40 is the best part
Multarix ok now I think ur the tru hero of this vid lol
burn !
11:30 I knew something like this line was coming, but I still had to laugh out loud hearing Simon say "nether region dangly bits"!
Iron maidens gonna get you, no matter how far!
See the blood flow watching it shed up above my head!!
blakeburwell2002 Iron Maiden wants you for dead.
Still my favourite album.
Yep Iron Maiden and Killers cant beat em! The others are amazing but those 2 never get old!
Much better than the bloke who posted lyrics to the Trooper.....
I love audible. And when i realized Simon narrates audio book that is double love! I could listen to Simon forever. We need like Simon merch like a Funko pop!
Any Iron Maiden fans here? 🤘🤘
YES!
hell yea! \m/
Michalis Zannetos
Yep
80s metal was atrocious with high pitched girl-like singing and high pitched guitars.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 Bands like Slayer, Death, Morbid Angel, Dio, Obituary, Metallica, Iron Maiden. I could go on. Let me know if any of those bands have" high-pitched girl-like singing and high pitched guitars".
You guys do an amazing amount of research. It's arguably more than we can absorb. Thank you for making such a huge contribution to popular knowledge.
If I were a Mortal Kombat character, I would have found my new finisher: The Hug of Death.
If I had one wish to see a collaboration come true, it would be Simon and Joe Scott. My 2 favorite, most entertaining, fact-based channels period. Thanks for another fantastic video SW 👍 👍
Wow, your narration of the history of this grim contraption was highly amusing and even day brightening. I was hooked with every word in this video.
I wrote the follow up book the "The Wise Book of Why's". It is titled 'Cuz I Said So". It is a short but riveting read.
Do you know how many times I heard that phrase growing up? Lol!
Saw one when I was 8 years old and it so freaked me out that I didn’t sleep when it was dark for like 4 solid days. I love Ripleys museums 💀
So would you say you had "fear of the dark"?
You couldn't sleep for 4 days? The show was that good? Maiden can do that to people sometimes, up the irons 🤘
Up the Irons! This video needed to end with The Trooper playing in the background.
Toss a coin to this Whistler, O valley of plenty, O valley of plenty, ooh
I'm getting an Amish vibe from the way that beard is trimmed, with the plain glasses, and the light blue button-up shirt.
1:37 to skip the ad at the start lads 😄
"Send them to the Iron Maiden"
"IRON MAIDEN, DUDE. EXCELLENT!"
I had never heard of an iron maiden as a torture device. I had only heard of the band!
I've honestly never really noticed the iron maiden being the "face of medieval torture", and I adore medieval history. I've only ever seen it in a few movies, and social media, but definitely not prominently at all, and almost never with a reference to the middle ages.
The iron maiden seems like something you'll run to the hills from.
They may even give you Fear of the Dark.
@@inhumanfilth681 Just watch out for prowlers
Whoever went in there Died With Their Boots On
It's not a torture device, it's a "physical compliance mechanism."
What actually happens is that a suspect under interrogation is placed inside the Iron Maiden,
Whilst the subject is pondering what happens next, several kittens are placed inside the Iron Maiden with him and the door is closed. In fact, so many kittens go in for company that all the client can do is sit or squat. A large bowl of milk is placed at his feet through a hatch in the modified torture device, a man who is kind to and even loves cats, then monitors for signs of feline distress. If the unmistakeable sound of a kitten in distress is heard, he will duly open up and then deliver a roundhouse clout to the client as a sign he is to look after the cats better.
Count Dankula did a mad lad on Uday Hussein and damn that is one serious evil guy.
Iron Maiden? Excellent!
i swear to god, Simon is the highlight of my day
I did actually already know the general truth of this fact due to researching a videogame that I am a huge fan of. Vagrant Story is a JRPG on the PS1 set in an abandoned/ruined city, the bonus dungeon area is called the Iron Maiden. Unusually for videogames every single room or passage has a name on the map, including this dungeon area. One of these was an particularly odd sounding word 'Squassation' and I looked it up on a whim. Let's just say it is unpleasant. Looking up some of the other room names that I hadn't given much thought to it was clear pretty quickly that _every_ one of the 40 to 50 rooms was named after some form of historical torture. I discovered that while the Iron Maiden that gave the dungeon its name was mostly a modern day fiction I also learned a whole lot about the gruesome devices and deeds of the past that were not.
Some time after this I started reading a book that began with a 'witch trial' using methods that I now knew the names of (Strappado and its partner Squassation) and after feeling ill for a while I declined to read any further.
Many of the Iron Maiden room names are self explanatory - Impalement, Burning, Chair of Spikes, etc but there are many that you would not immediately know the nature of until you realise the overall theme (such as the one that prompted me to look them up in the first place, Squassation). I'll not describe them here but I'll list a few names (you probably won't want to look them up if you don't have a strong stomach however) - Bootikens, the Spider, the Pear, cleansing the soul (interestingly this one lead to the modern parental threat of 'washing your mouth out with soap'), Heretic's fork, knotting, the oven at Niesse, Pressing, Spanish Tickler, the Wheel.
One particularly gruesome thing I realised was just how many were meant specifically for use on women.
Something else I found interesting in a less hideous way was recognising a device in a Bond movie from the description I'd read. In The World Is Not Enough Bond is strapped into a device by Electra in a sitting position and as she turns a wheel a brass pole is slowly extended into the back of his neck designed to first choke him against the straps holding his body in place before ultimately snapping his spine (luckily he is saved by Hagrid's final act). This device is called the Garrotte.
Another thing I recognised in two separate movies was a method of escaping from a prison cell, you bend or break the bars of a cell by wrapping a large piece of fabric or robe around two bars and insert a stick of some kind through the fabric and keep rotating it so it tightens and slowly bends the bars together. This is a variation of Knotting and while not used on people in the movie examples it was one of those tortures mainly aimed at women and is pure nightmare fuel when you know how it is applied.
8:08 While our gracious host is talking of the coat of shame here you can also see on the middle figure something called the Scold's Bridle or Branks. Another of the devices designed solely for use on women, this apparently originated in Scotland as a form of punishment for outspoken women (scolds). A cage for the head with an extension for holding down the tongue (use of an actual spike for this part is optional). obligatory QI clip - ruclips.net/video/wYpwbPmUa2E/видео.html
Everybody time Simon says “ Iron Maiden “ a guitar shred should play in the background 🤘🏻
"the hug would continue until they died"
Life goals.
Wont you come into my room, I'm gonna show all my wares!
17 min to answer a question I have heard explained BY SIMON WHISTLER like 4 times already in other videos? Simon this has to aggravate you!
14:35 To the defense of the Swiss, it states in the Wikipedia article on Uday(Odai?) that he was assigned to the embassy of Iraq. As such the Swiss cannot be blamed for it and would not have to supply any kind of reason as they had simply no say in who is assigned. When he did misbehave on Swizz soil, they expelled him.
Amnesia players used it to hide from the Monster
Duchi it’s pretty bad when the monster scares you more than the Iron Maiden.
Making any kind of metal contraption would be a very expensive endeavor. Even a shaped wooden contraption. Torture was a much more ad-hoc kind of affair, using things that were to hand: tables, ropes, hammers, tongs, fire, sticks, animals - or various combinations thereof. Along the way, torturers realized that most people would talk if you just showed them the torture implements, which led to there being more of a display aspect to it. But if people wouldn’t talk the solution was usually very straightforward: crushing fingers, pulling teeth, hot tongs. Those methods work and are super cheap.
Another reason the Iron Maiden is not real is medieval authorities were not in favor of blood, for religious and possibly hygiene reasons. Sure, beheading someone was a thing but that was a quick affair that could be cleaned up and it was nobility that were often executed this way, and they are generally less likely to induce fear of disease. The Iron Maiden would cause prolific bleeding and would be damn hard to clean, making it both expensive and impractical.
It would surprise me if it wasn't used at least once during ancient or medieval times. It's almost like rule 34. However, custom fitted spikes would be less likely.
BTW: we Austrians had a lazy variant: hang someone without hoisting him up. At some point the legs get weka and he suffocate himself. Cheap, fast and easy to implement and yet slow and cruel. It just lacks some flair.
Definitely need a video about the first ever "Serial Killer" mentioned in this one!
I think more people need to be made aware of the atrocities committed by Uday. His treatment of young girls, for instance. Truly a monster. Worse than his father, and that's saying a lot.
*Here i go destroying lives*
Iron Maidens are both fake and real. The casing is real, but the spikes are not, here is how the story went:
Two archeologist find a Iron Maiden, and one of them basically put spikes on it to make it look like it was a torture device.
That's the entire story. you can research it too, this is just a short nutshell summary of it.
The piercing of the casket containing the Roman general Regulus was the first conjuring trick gone wrong: "Behold, I open the casket and the general is totally unharmed ... Oh, wait. Is there a doctor in the audience?"
If it was from medieval are, it would be a rarity beyond compare considering what it’s made of. Several hundred kg. of iron, probably heavier than a horse, would be VERY expensive. Don’t even mention the cost of forging the thing, would have to be done by the smith of a castle or the like. Lots of cheaper and more fun torture tools were available.
Nice to find more of your Channels. More Stuff i can listen to while i try to sleep in.
One Japanese Otaku definitely loves to use this device.
Who?
@@MrEmichan Naofumi Iwatani
@@brandonlyon730 yeah, but he's only used it on spirit fish. His attempts to use it on humans were... less successful
@@brandonlyon730 thanks for that info. Now I'm going to look him up.
@@brandonlyon730 ahhhh, ok, so he's a fictional/anime character. I thought he was a real like otaku. We have some crazy ones in Japan. 😅
I was looking forward for this video
Thats ominous
Iron Maiden, I like their music.
At least we can be assured no one was killed by the band Iron Maiden
Apparently Uday used to order his bodyguards to drive him around Baghdad to look for wedding parties, which he would gatecrash, before dragging the new brides off in front of their husbands to be & brutally raping them. If any of their families subsequently complained, he would have them arrested & tortured. Sounded like a real nice fella eh?
The nail casket downhill in a river is now my new worst fear
Love that band. Up the Irons!!
Imagine being forced to be locked in an iron maiden while you are screaming for help, iron maiden is playing🎵
Bill and Ted give their regards
Put them in the Iron Maiden.
@@roberthopwood3758
Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!
*air guitar movement*
"Execute them."
"Bogus!"
**air guitar riffs** 🎸🎸🎸
Age is irrelevant, @Dan Ryan We're not old, but we're men and women of culture.
Oh yeah, "Be _excellent_ to each other aaaand.... PARTY ON, DUDES!" 🤘🏻🎸
@@LisaBowers Thank you. I am "only" 22, but I have respect for things that deserve respect.
Since when is Iron Maiden considered torture? Country "music" on the other hand...
That only applies to the "bro" country. Also known as "death by pickup truck song".
#TaylorSwift. Is. Actually. _Good_ !!
What they call country music today, I agree is torture.
Emily Curewitz EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!! I’d take the Iron Maiden!!!
Country music just consists of the same beat and is always about picking up a girl from the bar in their tractor
If the Regulus story is true, then he is probably one of the most badass people ever! He could’ve just said, “nah I’m gonna stay, oh and I’m also not gonna send prisoners back either....y’all can F off.”
Just shows how much a mans word was worth back then. If they said something then they were gonna do it. Even if it meant death by torture!!! Impressive 🤯
Closest I come to torture by spikes...sleeping with three fully armed cats. 🙀😼😸🐾😜
As a cat owner, I enjoyed that.
@@patarnold4134 So did I!
I had a mentally challenged cat that didn't like walking on our waterbed. She would walk up the rails to the mirrored head board. She couldn't figure out how to get down so she jumped down onto me and dug in for the ultimate long jump. Everytime the fridge cycled or the cuckoo clock sounded also sent her skittering from the room (hopefully she wasn't sleeping in your lap when those happened!) It got ugly. She was the best cat you could ask for till she was in fear of her life from everyday sounds. I can't tell you how MAD I got got when she dug in, me screaming "damn cat" just to hear hubby laughing. She was the kitten of a barn cat born during February. That free kitten cost us $500 in vet bills the first month between the respiratory infections, pneumonia, fleas, worms, etc. I still miss her, still smile thinking about how if you spooked her while trying to catch her she would run to the bedroom walk in closet and lay down flat in the middle with nothing around her thinking she was hiding. She didn't go to the sides where boxes were, just layed in the middle of it in the walking area. RIP Brie, you lived a very loved long life.
There is a similar device described in the “Ralph Mellish” skit. The quote is:
“But for the lack of any untold circumstances for this secretary to notice, and the total non-involvement of Mr. Mellish in anything illegal, the forweight of the law would insure that Ralph Aulds Mellish would have ended up like all who challenge the fundamental laws of our society. In an iron coffin with spikes on the inside!”
Wasn't the nursery rhyme Mary Mary quite contrary supposedly based on Queen Mary and torture machines?
I am so getting that book you mentioned :) , you should do more I would totally buy them, love your voice.
Oh well, wherever, wherever you are, Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far.
TIL: Tertullian was a Valley Girl
4:40 He endured so many crucifixions... Like oh my god. Just sooooo many. It was like, totally grody
Simon, do you make more money if we buy the audio book or if we use audible and use your code?
Please and thank you!
If my memory serves me correctly, “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs” has an example of a Christian Martyr was placed in a wooden box with nails driven in from all sides. The box was placed in a wagon or cart and driven around on bumpy roads to allow the occupant to bounce around and be pierced by nails.
13:47 considering things like the brazen bull and blood eagle, it would not surprise me in the slightest however if something like the iron maiden was used
Yeah finished the latest business blaze video just in time for a new TIFO video 😍
Why is today the first I've ever heard of the audio book! I've watched an untold number of your videos and first I've heard of it.
Disco Stu doesn't advertise. ;-) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut Lmao, I found the audio book and bought it! Brings me back to the old days. Simon sounds like he's whispering to you about facts he knows. It's glorious!
@@TodayIFoundOut yall should redo the book with both of you and format it like the brain food podcast.
Answer: Yes, they were used by Judas Priests.
They were specifically used on the day of the week known as Black Sabbath.
That´s what you get from Breaking the Law.
The death toll is one million, aka. 1 Megadeth
I hear they were made from some sort of Metallica substance
@@jamaalwalker4140 In the name of Dio
This might seem somewhat morbid, but would an Iron Maiden even work? Like would it actually not just immediately kill you? Would it even be able to close with a person inside it? They just never looked to me like they'd actually work
The idea, if one were actually ever used, was the spikes would only penetrate somewhat, ensuring a slow and agonizing death.
@@TodayIFoundOut so would it (hypothetically) not have been closed fully? The spikes always looked way too long to me
The idea that they could stand there without being penetrated except when they fell asleep might have worked. But again that was another dubiuos story.
I thought supposedly that In medieval times Elizabeth Bathory “the blood countess” was supposed to have used an Iron Maiden on her victims in order to get blood from her victims to bathe in, unless that’s just part of her legend.
They did, they used it to poke holes in their juiceboxes!
Seal Or No Deal I need to buy myself one now
Again, Simon you could narrate a funeral and it would sound fantastic. I say go for Hollywood mate. Cheers from Orlando, Florida!
I feel like I just sat through the world's longest run on sentence. And it was torturous.
"They left behind the iron maiden, believing it to be worthless."
Weren't there any rag-and-bone men in Baghdad at that time?
I saw an iron maiden in Egypt 1997 at a church in Cairo. Looked old was said have been left by Crusaders. Also had one of the cages for a head. One of head cages are in Fort Ross Ca. said to have been left by the Russian seal fur hunters.
They've all been heard singing "Shout at the Devil!"
If they used a screw like object as the stake or (nail), then all they had to do was screw it in or out to fit it to the person's body size. I'm sure the tomb like body casket that the person was locked inside of and the screws pierced was made wide and tall to fit to the size of most. Also, there could have been multiples made at different sizes.
It also brought us one the best heavy metal bands of the '80s so that's cool
1:35 to skip the commercial
After watching this video i had to sing loud :🎶🎶
"I wanna show you all my wares
I just want to see your blood
I just want to stand and stare
See the blood begin to flow
As it falls upon the floor
Iron Maiden can't be fought
Iron Maiden can't be sought" 🎶🎶🎶
UP THE IRONS SIMON!!!