Comparison of the Most Painful Punishments

you said something wrong about the church in the Middle Ages so the Inquisition is after you now they've used a leather strap to secure a device that looks like a two-way fork with two sharp points on your neck one of its sides is pushing against your sternum and the other against your chin at first you tried to keep your head up to lessen the pain but you couldn't stay like this for long the so-called Heretics Fork wasn't deadly but made the victim suffer from the tiniest move however on the scale of pain based on scientific

research this kind of suffering gets only 27 points out of 140 in this video you'll find out about the worst kind of torture in the history of humankind so viewer discretion is advised you have at least a few times in your life been subjected to one of the less obvious kinds of torture it's just that the Executioner wasn't persistent enough when tickling you in ancient China this was the primary method of punishing delinquents from noble families since tickles didn't leave any traces of torture on the body and the victim was able to recover quite fast

if the procedure didn't go too far of course in European countries goats were employed as a torture device the culprit was tied up and salty water was poured on their feet to make the animal lick them what's so bad about that you might ask it's just that there's an incredible number of nerve endings in the feet and the goat's rough tongue would irritate them quite a lot so after a few hours the tickling starts inducing not just laughter but also painful muscle contractions you lose virtually all control over your body which causes extreme stress anxiety

and exhaustion moreover the nerve endings responsible for reacting to tickles also signalize pain it's just that if we're being tickled for fun and for a short time our reaction to stress doesn't go beyond laughter and light Sensations in the body however if done for hours this causes the nervous system such overload that the lightest touch causes unbearable physical pain now imagine that it's not your feet being tickled it's your private parts in India interrogation of criminals was accompanied by placing a small bug on the culprit genitals and covering the insect with a walnut shell so

that it didn't escape the constant irritation of super sensitive areas caused by the bug's movements made the torture unbearable very quickly and the executioners got any confession they wanted eventually tickle torture would result in death by asphixiation if the victim developed a throat spasm caused by uncontrollable laughter other possible outcomes were Cardiac Arrest or a brain aneurysm provoked by serious stress yet on the Pain Scale tickle torture got only 32 points since the suffering it brought was mostly psychological this is very similar to the next kind of torture the Chinese water torture at first the

person was immobilized and then cold water would slowly drip onto their face or head gradually the constant skin irritation caused by the drops and splashes would make the nervous system hyp sensitive the inability to move and the weight for the next drop would literally start driving the person insane maybe you've even seen this torture in movies here's the Paradox though there's no proof that it was ever used in China this kind of torture was first described by an Italian lawyer on the cusp of the 16th century in the mid 18th century German and French doctors

attempted to use this method to cure mental disorders moreover the very term Chinese water torture came into active use owing to a trick by the legendary Harry Houdini so does the water drop torture actually work since it can look harmless at first glance a few bloggers have dared to try it out themselves the water drop torture was also tested by the myth buster ERS all participants knew they were actually perfectly safe and could be freed at any moment yet everyone went through a hellish experience at first the experimenters suffered from cold thirst psychological tension and

physical discomfort then their entire body started aching and breathing problems arose it all ended in a panic and desperate pleas to be released that is the worst in addition after this episode The MythBusters received an Anonymous letter whose authors reportedly found out that the Chinese water torture may cause mental issues that persist for 20 hours so on the Pain Scale the water drop torture received 40 points and a huge question as to whether it was actually used in practice at least because it was replaced by much cruler kinds of water torture one of them was

the Swedish drink this name was invented by the Germans during the 30 Years War they became victims of the Swedish army servicemen mercenaries or Marauders this method of torture went as follows through a funnel the perpetrators would pour buckets of the most disgusting liquids imaginable into the victim's throat they used everything from urine and filth to manure and feces this was the swedes way of torturing the civilians to force them to give up their money or food not only did the victims feel disgust and humiliation from being subjected to the the Swedish drink they also

contracted deadly diseases furthermore their stomach stretched causing horrific pain the perpetrators would often use wooden planks to put pressure on the victim's bloated belly or hit it with sticks to deepen the suffering so on the Pain Scale the Swedish drink got 46 points out of the possible 140 very often one kind of torture ranged from public humiliation accompanied by intense discomfort to a death p punishment with unbearable suffering one of such hellish inventions was the king it's a large board consisting of two halves with a hole between them used to keep the device on a

person's neck the king wasn't secured in any way so the culprit had to support the board with their hands and balance it while walking to intensify the punishment the person in a king could also be chained stopping them from ever sitting down moreover the Kang's parameters would change according to the sever ity of the punishment it could weigh anywhere from 9 to 15 kg and have a square rectangular or disproportionate irregular shape sometimes they were even double or triple often a king would be so large that the victim would be unable to touch their face

to eat or drink if they weren't helped by those who cared the victim would die a slow death of hunger and thirst yet the King was also used as an execution device the convict was placed inside a tall cage made specific for this purpose a Kang would be secured above then a prop would be taken from under the victim's feet and they would slowly be strangled with the board on their neck that's how people were executed in China as recently as 1900 suffering excruciating pain on the Pain Scale King torture sits at 62 points however

even this horror is far from being the worst thing people ever came up with Europeans during the Middle Ages were especially creative in their acts of Cruelty it was was then that they invented and actively used a Contraption called the Judas cradle it's a spiky wooden or metal pyramid secured on a support with a special clamp over it first the victim's arms and legs were tied and then their trunk was secured with a metal ring attached to the ceiling or the wall with ropes after this the person was slowly Seated on the pyramid's sharp point

I won't go into the horrific anatomical details since it's clear anyway that the process has caused unbearable pain moreover such torture could go on for days if the executioners wanted to receive a confession or other information but the victim remained silent they tied weights to their arms and legs causing the pyramid edges to gnaw at the poor person's body even more as if that wasn't enough the Judith cradle was never cleaned so it became the breeding ground for deadly bacteria so even if the victims managed to survive they often died of infections at any rate

they remained scarred physically and psychologically for the rest of their lives that's why the Judas cradle received 79 points on the Pain Scale crossing the midpoint however the first device to go beyond 100 in our list is the oblet it's a horizontal tunnel with the only way out in the form of a graded opening above used as a dungeon often it was so narrow that the prisoners couldn't even sit down moreover oblates were built right there in the castle so that the victims could hear human voices and smell the food causing them even more psychological

suffering yet the real torture was the fact that the prisoners were literally forgotten about in these holes and they slowly died of thirst hunger exhaustion and infections compared to this a Judas cradle execution was a swift way to relieve one's suffering the ubet is a kind of urement which has been practiced since ancient times on all continents in the Roman Empire the most influential vestals who had broken their virginity pledge were sentenced to death it was against the law to shed their blood though so they were ured alive faded for a slow desperate death if

you think this insane practice remained in days past you're wrong in Mongolia this barbaric execution method was still in use until at least 1933 so urement in its different variations receives 108 points on the Pain Scale but what if you're not alone in this closed space then it's an entirely different kind of punishment rat torture as far back as in the first century ad the cruestv they say he put the victim into a barrel with hungry rats who quickly ate the person alive in India they made criminals wear wide pants which were first tied around

the ankle and then filled with rodents any ideas as to which body parts suffered the most and how painful it was however medieval torturers took it even further they tied the victims down to immobilize them then placed a bottomless cage on their abdomen and filled it with rats then they put hot wood coal on the grates and the Rats became unbearably hot first they tried gnawing at the cage in Desperate attempts to escape later though the rats realized they were standing on a soft human body and started eating their way out through it sometimes the

cage was put on the victim's head near the mouth or other body parts I'll let your imagination fill in the details the most horrible thing is probably the fact that in South American countries rat torture was in use until the 1980s it received 112 points on the Pain Scale it would seem that there's nothing worse than this but before we get to the most horrifying tortures that scored the maximum of 140 points there are still two more devices the first of which is the rack this is another deadly invention of the Middle Ages it looked

like a wooden frame with rollers on both ends the person's limbs were tied to them and when the torturers would start turning the rollers the victim's arms and legs would stretch in different directions this caused unbearable pain due to Joint displacement muscle and ligament ruptures and in the most horrific cases even bone fractures the executioners could torture the victim like this for hours or even days to beat the confession or the necessary information out of them sometimes a specifically trained person would supervise the victim's condition to keep them conscious and Alive before a specific time

so it's unsurprising that just threatening someone to send them to the rack would often be enough to obtain the necessary information this horrible type of torture received 16 points on the Pain Scale however citizens of ancient Greece managed to outperform even the cruelty of medieval European torturers being the creators of one of history's most terrifying torture devices the Brazen bull according to stories it was built by an Athenian named peros as a commission for a sicilian Tyrant ferus in the 16th century BC it was a hollow copper statue of a bull with a hatch on

its side a person would be pushed inside the hatch would be shut and then the torturers would start a fire under the Bull's belly furthermore the statue's nostril structure made the victim scream sound like the Bull's Bellow yet this barbarism was apparently not enough so after the execution the victim's bones were used to make jewelry to then be sold on markets the inventor of this hellish machine realized very quickly that doing business with tyrants was a bad idea since the first person follower his tried out the Brazen Bull on was perilous himself first the man's

skin started burning in the places where it touched the metal then the hot air gradually burned his Airways and lungs he went on to slowly cook alive before choking to death or going unconscious before this though peros went through the agony that reached 130 points on the Pain Scale even this horror though won't compare to the fate of those sentence to lingchi it's definitely one of the most barbaric punishments in Humanity's entire history and it hails from Asia it was used in China Vietnam and Korea right until the early 20th century to punish perpetrators of

the most heinous crimes like mass murder and high treason as well as to eradicate the emperor's personal enemies it comes as no surprise since the victim would be tied to a pole in a crowded space to turn the execution into public humiliation then a few torturers would slowly cut pieces of flesh out of the convict's arms legs and chest we know from historical records that during lingchi the victim would suffer from 100 to 3,000 wounds that's why this torture is also dubbed death by a th000 Cuts although the experts state that with such wounds a

person would most likely die within 20 minutes sometimes the families of the victims would bribe the executioners to inflict a deadly wound right away this wouldn't remove the victim's physical pain but it's worth remembering that for the Chinese lingchi was also a spiritual punishment according to their beliefs this disfigurement of the body wouldn't allow the victim to be whole and healthy in the afterlife this horrific execution method officially remained in use in China until 1905 this type of torture received the most points on the Pain Scale 140 I've told you all this exclusively for educational

purposes and to tickle your nerves but I hope it didn't reach torture level if you enjoy experiencing extreme Sensations without putting yourself in danger you'll find many exciting videos on my channel