{"id":919702,"date":"2022-01-26T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/worst-torture-methods-in-human-history\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:09:58","slug":"worst-torture-methods-in-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/worst-torture-methods-in-human-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst torture methods in human history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>1.)\u00a0<strong>Death by a thousand cuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also known as Lingchi, this punishment involved tying a person to a wooden post. The executioner would then use a sharp knife to cut flaps of fingers, skin and muscles from the body in multiple areas. This torture could go on up to 3 days and the victim would die painfully from blood loss and exhaustion<\/p>\n<p>2.)\u00a0<strong>The water torture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This involved placing the victim under a container of ice water with his head held stable. The water was then repeatedly dripped onto the forehead. This torture caused mental suffering rather than unbearable pain.<\/p>\n<p>3.)<strong>\u00a0Scaphism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First appearing in ancient Persia, this torture involved laying a person down in a boat then covering it with another boat so that the head, hands and feet were left outside. The victim was forcefully fed a mixture of milk and honey to provoke diarrhea and left to float on a pond. The honey and faeces attracted flies and other insects which would sting and lay eggs on the victim&#8217;s body. The larvae would then slowly eat the victim to his death.<\/p>\n<p>4.)\u00a0<strong>The Brazen bull<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This punishment involved placing the prisoner in a metallic bull like enclosure and setting fire beneath it. The prisoner would then melt and die from the extreme heat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e2d0357e89b6428484470691e1d0ba95\"\/><\/p>\n<p>5.)<strong>\u00a0The Blood eagle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The victim was placed in a prone position and tied to a table. While the victim is conscious, his back was skinned and using an axe, the executioner separated the ribs one by one, opening them out. The victim&#8217;s lungs were then pulled out carefully and spread out to resemble a pair of wings.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Collincameup (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nLingchi<br \/>\nPersia<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.)\u00a0Death by a thousand cuts Also known as Lingchi, this punishment involved tying a person to a wooden post. The executioner would then use a sharp knife to cut flaps of fingers, skin and muscles from the body in multiple areas. This torture could go on up to 3 days and the victim would die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}