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Title PageTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs From the “DE SS MARTYRUM CRUCIATIBUS” OF THE REV. FATHER GALLONIO Now for the first time translated and adapted By A. R. Allinson, M.A. Oxon. “others had [...]

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1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hairTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...]

Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, bare feet, spooky, greyscale

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2.—Bound hand and foot to stakes and smeared with honey, and so left exposed to the sun, to be tortured by the stings of bees and other insectsTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by both feet, and a great stone fastened to his neck. B. Sometimes the Blessed Martyrs, after being smeared with honey, were bound [naked] to stakes fixed in the ground, and so exp [...]

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3.—Suspended by the thumbs, heavy stones being fastened to the feet; hung up over a slow fire and beatenTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by his thumbs, heavy stones being attached to his feet. B. Christians hung up, and a slow fire kindled underneath, so as to suffocate them with the smoke; the victims being scourge [...]

Keywords: nudity, torture, punishments, people, death, religion, bare feet, greyscale

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4.—Suspended by the feet, and the head beaten with hammers, etc.Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by the feet, and his head at the same time pounded with hammers. B. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are tied behind his back, heavy weights being fastened to his feet and roun [...]

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5.—Suspended with great weights on the shoulders, and a gag fixed in the mouth.Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr suspended by the hands, which are bound behind his back, and having the shoulders weighted with lumps of salt, a wooden gag being also forced into his mouth. B. Martyr suspended by a hook. “ [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, feet, punishments, people, death, religion, greyscale

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6.—Martyrs bound to the circumference of a great wheel, and rolled down a precipiceTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

“Sometimes Martyrs were bound to the circumference of great wheels, and so hurled from a height over stony places.” (p. 26) The plate actually seems to show a naked man with his hands and feet bound b [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, punishments, people, death, religion, machinery, greyscale

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7.—Fastened to a wheel, which is revolved over iron spikesTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr whose limbs are interwoven in the spokes of a wheel, on which he is left exposed for days, till he dies. B. Martyr bound to a narrow wheel, which is revolved, so that his body is horribly ma [...]

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8.—Revolved over a blazing fireTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyr bound naked to a wheel, which is revolved over iron spikes. B. Bound to the circumference of a wheel, which is revolved over a fire kindles underneath. This time it’s naked men who are tortu [...]

Keywords: torture, nudity, bare feet, punishments, people, death, religion, machinery, greyscale

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20.—Tortured with quicklime, boiling oil, etc.Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Wooden horse. B. Martyr taken down from the horse and being rolled about over shards of pottery. C. Having quicklime, boiling oil and the like, poured over him.(p. 120) Quickline, or calcium oxide, [...]

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Martyrs being tortured with red-hot iron and with fireTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs whose hand is filled with incense mingled with live coals, and who is being constrained by the pain to scatter the incense, is said to have made sacrifice to the idol. B. Martyr clad in the [...]

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Tortured with feet to the firePeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

[...] the first stranger reappeared, and beckoning with his finger, the party passed through the door to a little vestibule, the further end of which was closed by a heavy dark-red curtain; upon this [...]

Keywords: torture, stocks, people, men, prisons, interiors, medieval, bare feet, punishments, greyscale

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1733.—The WhirligigOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A cage for punishemt: the offender was put inside and then the cage was spun round rapidly, often for a long time (perhaps all day). This would make the victim sick or even unconscious. In the mean- [...]

Keywords: punishments, torture, cages, greyscale

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1735.—The BrankOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Scolds had their heads inclosed [sic] in a sugarloaf-shapred cap, made of iron hooping, with a cross at the top, and a flat piece of iron projecting inwards, that was laid upon the tongue; a string w [...]

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The Sacrifice to the Nile.Pictureseque Egypt Vol I (1878)

A young woman, scantily clad except for a long diaphonous wedding veil, stands on a stone platform. She is barefoot, and chained by her ankles to a heavy rock; her hands are tied at her sides. She is [...]

Keywords: people, religion, bare feet, chains, torture, punishments, sacrifice, ancient egypt, greyscale

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Mediaeval Torture InstrumentsFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

These six torture implements were captioned instruments of torture employed against the Christians, but they are not actually mentioned in the text. The objects on the first row, the sharp teeth, the [...]

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Christians Flung To The Wild BeastsPopular History of Rome, A (1886)

A scene in the Roman Colosseum, the great theatre where the gladiators fought. But in this case a group of Christians, including men, women and children, has been made available to lions, tigers and [...]

Keywords: people, animals, sporting events, religion, torture, punishments, bare feet, nudity, greyscale

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Initial letter “E” from p. 650Fabrica... (1543)

Here a bearded man has his left leg fastened in a wooden box with a large screw to tighten it; somenaked children (putti) are turning the winch.

Keywords: initials, lettere, torture, nudity, children, bare feet, greyscale

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