The convict was drawn behind a horse for a while and then hanged until just before death, when they were disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. The famous hanged, drawn and quartered torture was used in the Middle Ages to punish treasonists. This causes extreme pain and suffering.Īs mentioned above, torture can be used to kill a person too. Another simple, effective torture method is the joori-teulgi(주리 틀기) from Korea, where a person is tied to a chair with the feet bound, with two long sticks inserted between the thighs, crossed, then pulled down to streth the thighs apart. For instance, heating the sole of the feet with fire causes severe pain, electricity used in the right amount can keep the person alive while causing pain and seizures, and if you lie a person flat and on a slight decline (so the head is lower than the body), put a cloth over their face and pour over it, you can induce a sensation of drowning (this is called waterboarding and is used by the CIA). Like this, medical knowledge has often been used to develop new ways to torture people. Finger tips are extremely sensitive and contain many nerve endings, meaning sticking needles under the nail bed or ripping the fingernails off causes extreme pain. A simple way to cause extreme pain is the use of fingers. A useful tip for beating someone is to place a phonebook on their stomach or hand and hitting the book, which transfers pains while not leaving a bruise or any marks. For example, you can simply tie the person to a chair and beat them senselessly, or apply pressure to a wound to cause intense pain.
Physical torture is very simple: inflict as much pain as you can.
The main goal of torture is to induce maximum pain to extract information from, punish or to execute a person. There are many types of tortures, but they can be largely divided into physical and psychological torture. Let us explore the various methods of torture used throughout human history. Travelling is probably the least terrifying form of torture. This is most likely because in the old days before airplanes and trains were invented, travelling was often long, arduous and painful. But strangely, the etymology of the word travel is the Latin word tripalium, which means “torture instrument”.