June 2011
21 posts
what did people do to deserve the head crusher in the middle ages?
The head crusher was used as an interrogation device to extract confessions.
It was often used during the Spanish Inquisition to coerce the accused. Torture during the Inquisition was applied mainly against those suspected of Judaism and Protestantism, beginning in the 16th century. For example, scholars estimate that between 1575 and 1610 the court of Toledo tortured approximately a third of those processed for heresy. In other periods, the proportions varied remarkably. Torture was always a means to obtain the confession of the accused, not a punishment itself. Torture was also applied without distinction of sex or age, including children and the aged.
In the middle ages, the head crusher was also used as a torture device at the Tower of London. One is still on display there for tourists to see.
Many sources say that the head crusher is still used in many countries as a torture/interrogation device today, but I don’t know if that is true or not.
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Necrophilia
- Necrophilia is an erotic attraction to corpses, with the most common motive cited by psychologists as the attempt to gain possession of an unresisting or non-rejecting partner.
- According to Dr. Jonathan Rosman and Dr. Phillip Resnick, there are three basic types of “true” necrophilia: Necrophilic homicide, which is murder to obtain a corpse; Regular necrophilia, the use of corpses already dead for sexual pleasure; and Necrophilic fantasy, envisioning the acts but not acting on them.
- Those who never touch the dead but find sexual gratification merely from looking at them are labeled “platonic necrophilisists.”
- The lust killer who also engages in sexual activities with a corpse is not generally considered a true necrophile, R. E. L Masters, former director of the Library of Sex Research, claims (although other criminologists differ with the opinion). He says that such sexual violation is only an extension of what the lust murderer will do as part of the overall crime. A true necrophile is only interested in the corpse, not the living person. If he kills, it’s only to get a corpse.
- History offers several singular accounts of such activity, including the fear that ancient Egyptians expressed that embalmers would violate their deceased wives, so they kept them home until decomposition was clearly evident. One legend states that King Herod killed his wife and then had sex with her for seven more years.
- Supposedly (if one can judge such a secret activity), necrophiles are primarily male (about 90%), but one female apprentice embalmer claimed that during the first four months of her employment, she had sex with a number of corpses. She admitted that she could not achieve satisfaction with the living, in part because she had been molested once and later raped. She could express herself to corpses without fear. While she did not engage in penile penetration, another female mortician did, and she managed it by devising a pump that fit under the skin of the penis.
- Contrary to common belief, say Rosman and Resnick, most necrophiles are heterosexual, although about half of the known necrophiles who have killed were gay. In only about 60% is there a diagnosed personality disorder, with 10% being psychotic.
- The most common occupations through which necrophiles in their study came across corpses include hospital orderly, morgue attendant, funeral parlor assistant, cleric, cemetery employee, and soldier—although the majority of people thus employed are {not} tempted to violate a corpse.
May 2011
37 posts
“There’s nothing certain in a man’s life except this: That he must lose it.”
—Aeschylus
“The time has been
That, when the brains were out,
the man would die,
And there an end!
But now they rise
again,” —Act 3 Scene 4, Macbeth (via flamingonipples)
That, when the brains were out,
the man would die,
And there an end!
But now they rise
again,” —Act 3 Scene 4, Macbeth (via flamingonipples)
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what is the rack torture from the medieval times?
“The rack is commonly considered the most painful form of medieval torture. It was a wooden frame usually above ground with two ropes fixed to the bottom and another two tied to a handle in the top.
The torturer turned the handle causing the ropes to pull the victim’s arms. Eventually, the victim’s bones were dislocated with a loud crack. If the torturer kept turning the handles, some of the limbs were torn apart, usually the arms.
This method was mostly used to extract confessions, as not confessing meant that the torturer could stretch more. Sometimes, torturers forced their victim to watch other people be tortured with this device to implant psychological fear.
Many knights from the Knights Templar were tortured with the rack. The limbs collected from this and other punishments of the time were “emptied by the hundreds”.
Sometime this method was limited to dislocating a few bones, but the torturer often went too far and rendered the legs or arms (sometimes both) useless. In the late Middle Ages, some new variants of this instrument appeared. They often had spikes that penetrated the victim’s back - as the limbs were pulled apart, so was his spinal cord increasing not only the physical pain, but the psychological one of being handicapped at best, too.”
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Recently, my friend's sister was at my other friend's house, and everyone could feel the negativity comping off her when she was around. Also, there is a woman I know whose house (that I went to a few days ago) is very haunted, like shadows, weird energy, etc.
Today, my friend's mom got a weird message in her voicemail that sounded like an E.V.P.
I heard "daddy's alive, he's going through the worst," but they said they couldn't understand the first part and the second part was "is it technically for the worst?" The voice was no one any of us recognized, and wasn't very clear.
Could it have something to do with the stuff I was talking about in the first part of this question?
I’m not an expert or anything, but I think ghosts/spirits are possible and that they can often be attached to people (like your friend’s sister, in your case) or places (like the woman’s house).
As for the possible EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), I don’t see why it couldn’t be related to the things you mentioned in the first part of your message. Anything is possible and I wouldn’t want to rule out the things that you’ve already experienced as not being related.
However, there are many explanations for EVP. Some people say it is just radio interference or the tendency of the human brain to find patterns, such as language, in things. Others say EVP are psychokinetic thoughts directly imprinted on an electronic medium, communications from spirits, from humans in alternate dimensions/universes or even from extraterrestrials.
You sound as if you are sensitive to energy. Maybe something or someone was trying to communicate with you?
