What are some of the torture methods in the medieval times?

Answer 1

In the medieval ages there was many gruesome tortures used. One was where they would take the victim and have him/her stripped naked. Then their feet would be tied to two poles then four men would carry them around town, then finally they would spread the victims legs and then take a two person saw and saw down the middle. Another torture was when a victim was tied down to a table and a box with a hole was set on his stomach and tied down. In the box would be a rat and the top of the box would be lit on fire. The rat would panic and try to go through the hole but since the victims stomach was there the only choice the rat had was to dig through the opponent stomach.

One that was most commonly used, was being drawn and quartered. What would first happen is that the victim would be hanged till half dead, then they would be taken down and their arms and legs would be cut off. After that they would cut open the skin above your stomach and would take out the organs and lay them on top of you while you are still alive and light them on fire.

Another torture that is probably one of the most painful is called the Blood Eagle. The bones protecting your heart would be sawed open. Then they would tie you to a pole or stake and then rip open your rib cages. Then they would slowly stretch out your lungs and hang them on your rib cages. This is to represent an eagles wings. The person would either die of the constant bleeding or of their lungs being pierce by their own rib cages.

Answer 2

Answerwell...they use to torture people they believed were witches or who they believed used witchcraft.... they usually used really gruesome methods like compression of the limbs by special instruments or being injected with water or oil. they also lighted candles to fingers believing that they will be consumed in the wax. AnswerWitch-hunts were a thing of the Renaissance and later, not of the Middle Ages.

There were places where there were people tortured or burned at the stake for witchcraft during the Middle Ages, but it did not happen often, and in some places it was illegal.

The Council of Paderborn, which outlawed idolatry at the conversion of the Saxons in Germany in 785, forbade belief in witches. The Council of Frankfort, which addressed certain heresies in 794, condemned persecution of witches, called belief in witchcraft superstitious, and made burning a person as a witch a capital crime.

There were rulers who passed laws against witchcraft during the Middle Ages, but the persecution of witches only began to be common in the Late Middle Ages, and was never as common as it was after the Renaissance began. Inquisition to prosecute witches was first authorized in 1320 by Pope John XXII, and the first systematized discussion of how to recognize and deal with witches did not appear until 1487.

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Answer 3

They would either capture a person and chain his foot, place them in a chamber by themselves and once in a while would go in there and dip his/her hand in boiling water. Most methods would just bluntly kill the people. Performing the Bloody Eagle was a terrible way to die or even tying a person, standing up to a post, and burning them alive.

Answer 4

The Spanish are quit torturous at times. Especially during the Inquisition.

Answer 5

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