Gmail / Blogger cookie trouble, nasty water torture, Mount Olivet
Both Blogger and Gmail were giving me cookie trouble this afternoon, and constantly logging me in and out of their sites. Hope it's calmed down now, since my logins seem to be sticking... yay for that! :D
Today's Torturous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Here's another particularly nasty variation on water torture employed by the Dutch in the 17th century, as described by writer Ernestus Eremundus Frisius:
"There is a bench, which they call the wooden horse, made hollow like a trough, so as to contain a man lying on his back at full length, about the middle of which there is a round bar laid across, upon which the back of the person is placed, so that he lies upon the bar instead of being let down into the bottom of the trough, with his feet much higher than his head.
"As he is lying in this posture, his arms, thighs, and shins are tied round with small cords or strings which, being drawn with screws at proper distances from each other, cut into his very bones, so as to be no longer discerned. Besides this, the torturer throws over his mouth and nostril a thin cloth, so that he is scarcely able to breathe thro' them, and in the mean while a small stream of water like a thread, not drop by drop, falls from on high, upon the mouth of the person lying in this miserable condition, and so easily sinks down the thin cloth to the bottom of his throat, so that there is no possibility of breathing, his mouth being stopped with water and his nostrils with the cloth, so that the poor wretch is in the same agony as persons ready to die, and breathing out their last.
"When this cloth is drawn out of his throat, as it often is, so that he may answer to the questions, it is all wet with water and blood, and like pulling his bowels through his mouth."
Culled from: The History Of Torture
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I think I'm going to adopt that last part as a new expression: "Watch the presidential press conference? Why, I'd rather have my bowels pulled out through my mouth!"
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Urban Exploration Link Du Jour!
Opacity is a collection of mesmerizingly beautiful urban exploration photographs. A must-browse! Thanks to Paul for the link.
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Morbid Sightseeing!
Zubrovka sends a photo-essay of the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Looks like a very nice place to visit! Here's the official site for the cemetery for those who might like to visit.
Today's Torturous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Here's another particularly nasty variation on water torture employed by the Dutch in the 17th century, as described by writer Ernestus Eremundus Frisius:
"There is a bench, which they call the wooden horse, made hollow like a trough, so as to contain a man lying on his back at full length, about the middle of which there is a round bar laid across, upon which the back of the person is placed, so that he lies upon the bar instead of being let down into the bottom of the trough, with his feet much higher than his head.
"As he is lying in this posture, his arms, thighs, and shins are tied round with small cords or strings which, being drawn with screws at proper distances from each other, cut into his very bones, so as to be no longer discerned. Besides this, the torturer throws over his mouth and nostril a thin cloth, so that he is scarcely able to breathe thro' them, and in the mean while a small stream of water like a thread, not drop by drop, falls from on high, upon the mouth of the person lying in this miserable condition, and so easily sinks down the thin cloth to the bottom of his throat, so that there is no possibility of breathing, his mouth being stopped with water and his nostrils with the cloth, so that the poor wretch is in the same agony as persons ready to die, and breathing out their last.
"When this cloth is drawn out of his throat, as it often is, so that he may answer to the questions, it is all wet with water and blood, and like pulling his bowels through his mouth."
Culled from: The History Of Torture
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I think I'm going to adopt that last part as a new expression: "Watch the presidential press conference? Why, I'd rather have my bowels pulled out through my mouth!"
*******
Urban Exploration Link Du Jour!
Opacity is a collection of mesmerizingly beautiful urban exploration photographs. A must-browse! Thanks to Paul for the link.
*******
Morbid Sightseeing!
Zubrovka sends a photo-essay of the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Looks like a very nice place to visit! Here's the official site for the cemetery for those who might like to visit.
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