Often utilised by interrogators during the Spanish Inquisition, the Strappado was a brutal torture that involved hanging a victim from the ceiling by their arms. The victim would be raised, slowly and painfully, until their shoulders were dislocated from their sockets. However, the pain would not stop there: they would then be jerked up and down, slowly, and if that was not enough to extract a confession then weights would be added to the hands and feet of the persecuted in order to truly emphasise the agony inflicted on them.
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