The Surprising Story Of The Iron Maiden, Said To Be The Most Brutal Torture Device Of The Medieval Era
The Surprising Story Of The Iron Maiden, Said To Be The Most Brutal Torture Device Of The Medieval Era The Iron Maiden remains one of the most notorious torture contraptions of all time, but contrary to popular belief, it was never actually used in the Middle Ages at all. The first known mention of the infamous Iron Maiden torture device comes from 18th-century writer Johann Philipp Siebenkees, who described it in a guidebook to the city of Nuremberg, Germany, claiming that it was used in the execution of a criminal in 1515. Siebenkees wrote that the man died "slowly, so that the very sharp points penetrated his arms, and his legs in several places, and his belly and chest, and his bladder and the root of his member, and his eyes, and his shoulder, and his buttocks, but not enough to kill him He remained making great cry and lament for two days, after which he died.".... Read story But today, many scholars believe that Siebenkees invented this story, perhaps playi...