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A window in St. George's Collegiate Church in Tübingen, Germany, depicts a medieval execution on the Catherine Wheel. The window is said to have been installed by the Duke of Wuerttemberg as atonement after he mistakenly ordered such an execution of an innocent man. #myt
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Delve into the grim history of the breaking wheel, a symbol of medieval cruelty and one of the era's most feared torture methods.
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Next week, as a lead-up to Halloween, Ferrebeekeeper will feature a week’s worth of dark harrowing spooky posts about…um, flowers. However, just in case botany, herblore, and gardening are not ter…
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A metal bull designed to boil victims alive inside it was devised in ancient Greece by Perillus, a bronze worker in Athens and is among other horrifying inventions designed to cause pain.
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Here is a 15th-century Wheel of Fortune with a very complex design. The following description is from Mitchell B. Merback's 1999 The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel. Reynard the Fox as Pope and Antichrist Colored woodcut, German (c.1470-80) Visually anchored by an allegorical wheel held by a Lady Fortune who doubles as a personfication of Patience (Gedultikeyt), the woodcut also includes personifications of Virtues and Vices, and animal imagery derived from the legends of Reinecke Fuchs…
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The survival time after being “wheeled” or “broken” could be extensive. Introduction The breaking wheel or execution wheel, also known as
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Larissa Tracy introduces the new book Flaying in the Pre-modern World: Practice and Representation:
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