Torture by Dislocation

Torture by Dislocation

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Torture by Dislocation

Facts and Information about the methods, devices and instruments of torture used during the
 Medieval period of the Middle Ages

Torture by Dislocation
The Medieval period of the Middle Ages was violent, and blood thirsty. In these barbarous times the cruel and pitiless torturers were induced to inflict the horrors of tortures, including the Torture by Dislocation, on prisoners. Torture methods, devices and instruments were used to inflict the deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical and mental suffering. There were no laws or rules to protect the treatment of prisoners who faced torture, such as the Torture by Dislocation. Torture was seen as a totally legitimate means for justice to extract confessions, obtain the names of accomplices, obtain testimonies or confessions.

Method of the Torture by Dislocation
Different types of tortures were used depending on the victim's crime and social status. There were also different tortures used according to the customs of each country. In France torture by dislocation was practised and described as follows:

At Orleans, for the ordinary torture the accused was stripped half naked, and his hands were tightly tied behind his back, with a ring fixed between them. Then by means of a rope fastened to this ring, they raised the poor man, who had a weight of one hundred and eighty pounds attached to his feet, a certain height from the ground. For the extraordinary torture, which then took the name of 'estrapade' they raised the victim, with two hundred and fifty pounds attached to his feet, to the ceiling by means of a capstan; he was then allowed to fall several times successively by jerks to the level of the ground, by which means his arms and legs were completely dislocated.   

Torture by Dislocation
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