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Hung by the Wrists or Thumbs

Hung by the Wrists or Thumbs

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Abduction
  • Title: Abduction
  • Summary: Inquisitors capture a suspected heretic.
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Breaking on the Wheel
  • Title: Breaking on the Wheel
  • Summary: A man is tied to the wheel to be broken. A priest records what he says. Another is there to perhaps pray for his soul, while the hooded torturers go about their cruel task.
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Hung by the Wrists or Thumbs
  • Title: Hung by the Wrists or Thumbs
  • Summary: Again, the work is done by men in hoods. The observers seem calm and happy, confident in the holy nature of their task.
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Sword Play in a Fight for their Lives
  • Title: Sword Play in a Fight for their Lives
  • Summary: A man an a woman fight with swords, trying to repel their own capture, knowing that there is no escape once imprisoned.
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Trial by Burning and Fire
  • Title: Trial by Burning and Fire
  • Summary: Again, a scribe is ready tro write down any confessions as the "heretic" has his feet stockaded and burned.
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The Trial
  • Title: The Trial
  • Summary: The Grand Inquisitor and others sit in judgment as evidence and testimony is given, perhaps by the accused himself.
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In the Cell
  • Title: In the Cell
  • Summary: A condemned man receives a small amount of succor in his cell.
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Hanging
  • Title: Hanging
  • Summary: Having been judged to have suffered enough to be "purified" a condemned man is put out of his hanging misery by the torturer.
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Garrot
  • Title: Garrot
  • Summary: Yet another horrifying ordeal and death. The priest is of course there to tend to the soul.
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