Table of Contents:
CHAPTER ONE - MISCELLANEOUS MERRIMENTS OF THE OLDEN TIME 1
CHAPTER TWO - OF THE CULINARY ARTS 17
CHAPTER THREE - A PIECE OF CORD 31
CHAPTER FOUR - SOME MORE PIECES OF CORD 53
CHAPTER FIVE – SHAME 68
CHAPTER SIX – COMPRESSION 82
CHAPTER SEVEN - BODY BREAKING 94
CHAPTER EIGHT - ODDS AND ENDS 106
CHAPTER NINE - THE HOLY INQUISITION 123
CHAPTER TEN - COLLECTIVE TORTURES 149
CHAPTER ELEVEN - SELF-INFLICTED TORTURES 159
CHAPTER TWELVE – MASSACRE 167
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - MISCELLANEOUS MERRIMENTS OF MODERN TIMES 182
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In all ancient kingdoms torture was practiced as a matter of course, but it was nearly always used as a punishment and not as a means to extorting a confession. Torture for the purpose of a confession appears only to have come into force under the Roman law, which gives the question of torture very careful consideration.
In all primitive countries whipping was the method of punishing milder offences, but the modes of executing the criminal varied according to different peoples. The most common form of dispatching the accused was by cracifixion, and this was the punishment used by the Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians, Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans.
There were three crimes which seem to have been considered the most heinous by the early races: parricide, adultery and being taken a prisoner of war. The former two were always punished by death, the latter by the victim being sold as a slave.
CHAPTER ONE - MISCELLANEOUS MERRIMENTS OF THE OLDEN TIME 1
CHAPTER TWO - OF THE CULINARY ARTS 17
CHAPTER THREE - A PIECE OF CORD 31
CHAPTER FOUR - SOME MORE PIECES OF CORD 53
CHAPTER FIVE – SHAME 68
CHAPTER SIX – COMPRESSION 82
CHAPTER SEVEN - BODY BREAKING 94
CHAPTER EIGHT - ODDS AND ENDS 106
CHAPTER NINE - THE HOLY INQUISITION 123
CHAPTER TEN - COLLECTIVE TORTURES 149
CHAPTER ELEVEN - SELF-INFLICTED TORTURES 159
CHAPTER TWELVE – MASSACRE 167
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - MISCELLANEOUS MERRIMENTS OF MODERN TIMES 182
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In all ancient kingdoms torture was practiced as a matter of course, but it was nearly always used as a punishment and not as a means to extorting a confession. Torture for the purpose of a confession appears only to have come into force under the Roman law, which gives the question of torture very careful consideration.
In all primitive countries whipping was the method of punishing milder offences, but the modes of executing the criminal varied according to different peoples. The most common form of dispatching the accused was by cracifixion, and this was the punishment used by the Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians, Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans.
There were three crimes which seem to have been considered the most heinous by the early races: parricide, adultery and being taken a prisoner of war. The former two were always punished by death, the latter by the victim being sold as a slave.