Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to DeathSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2006. ápr. 4. - 288 oldal In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes the instruments used and their effectiveness and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as "gone west" or "drawn a blank," as well as the jargon of the underworld. He covers everything from the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body. Execution is everything you ever wanted to know about the ultimate penalty---and a lot you never thought to ask. |
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... Brazen Bull Broken on the Wheel Buried Alive Buried Alive Upside-Down Burned at the Stake Burned Internally Cannibalism Cauldron Cave of Roses Crucifixion Cyphon Diele Drowning Dry Pan Eaten by Animals Eaten by Crocodiles Electric Chair.
... Veneranda the Virgin, Eulampius and his sister Eulampia discovered, on finding themselves sinking helplessly below the bubbling surface of boiling pitch, molten lead or wax. BRAZEN BULL To 'bear the brunt', meaning to cope with.
... we may hear whether such charming music will proceed from it, as you would make us believe." Perillus obeyed, and no sooner was he inside the Bull, than I shut the aperture, and put fire beneath it. “Take that,” said Brazen Bull.
... bull was later used to torture and execute Christian martyrs, among them St Antipas, St Pelagia the Virgin, St Eustachius, his wife Theopistes and his sons Agapius and ... brazen bull. BROKEN ON THE WHEEL The invention of the wheel may.
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