Crotch saw victims remembrance day.

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So, we've talked about the crotch saw, but who was it actually used on? Why did I just end that sentence in a preposition? Who were these alleged "victims?"

• The Bible tells us (II Samuel 12:31**) that David, Hebrew king and Christian saint, exterminated the inhabitants of Rabbah and all the other Ammonite cities by putting man, woman and child “under saws...”<br>
  
• In Spain la sierra was a means of execution in the armed forces until the end of the eighteenth century, according to contemporary references which however do not cite any factual data.
  
  
• In Catalonia, during Napoleon’s and Wellington’s peninsular campaigns in 1808-14, the Catalonian guerillas subjected tens and perhaps hundreds of French, Spanish and British officers to the saw, little caring for the alliances of the moment.
  
  
• In Lutheran Germany the saw awaited the leaders of rebellious peasants, and in France witches pregnant by Satan.

Pictures? Sure.

A classic.


And some REAL saws.




I could probably deal with the first two, but the serated edges of the last one look like a bitch.

[Cheese]

Too said:

I could probably deal with the first two, but the serated edges of the last one look like a bitch.

They all look the same to me....

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The favorite torture ritual of the medevil times was used on women who cheated. Or any whore. If you were a female (not sure if they used it on males) that was unfaithful to your husband, or a caught prostitute, you were sentenced to this choice of torture. Remember, in the ancient medevil times they didnt fancy lethal injections nor the modern methods used today. They liked sawing people in half and making them live through it for 6 hours straight, before they finally died. These people liked sitting people down on a red hot spiked chair and make them stand up, ripping their skin from themselves and then feeding it to eachother. So I dont think it was a well spoken act. I definitely think these ways of torture were used, but they werent in every news stand avail.

Proof? Proof you say? That isnt for certain. If you can believe any story of ending lives then why not believe the crotch saw. Right?

[LTrain06]

wait a minute, people were being disemboweled for adultery and everyone freaked out over a fuckin scarlet letter sewn on someone's shirt?

why do I feel like I would have been a likely target for such torture?

[Julie]

Because you're a whore.


I jest.