5 BRUTAL SPANISH INQUISITION TORTURE METHODS!

One of the most brutal periods throughout Medieval times and also the centuries was the Spanish Inquisition. The series of religious persecutions and laws brought in saw a huge number of people tortured and even executed for being a heretic. The Spanish were intertwined with the Catholic Church, and they sought to rid Spain and Spanish controlled lands of religious criminals. To do this they introduced a number of torture methods that would be used to get someone accused of heresy to confess. Many of these were incredibly barbaric, for example the use of the Rack. The Rack was used in many places, and would result in limbs being ripped from sockets and bones snapping. The Breaking Wheel was also used where a defendant would be strapped to a wheel, before they were battered with clubs and other instruments to break bones.

There were many other torture methods used in the Spanish Inquisition, for example the strappado, a device that suspended someone in the air by their arms and this would usually dislocate shoulders and limbs. The whole point of the Spanish Inquisition was to bring the people into line with regards to religion, and using brutal methods such as these led to thousands of people being executed. It's estimated that well over 30,000 people were executed by the Inquisition.

So join us today as we look at, '5 BRUTAL SPANISH INQUISITION TORTURE METHODS!'

[gerardosalazar]

Everybody talks about the Spanish Inquisition conveniently ignoring the fact that across the Channel lived a real bloodthirsty serial killer. Henry VIII is directly responsible for over 72, 000 deaths; his victims were boiled in oil, quartered, asphyxiated, etc but who’s counting?

[jrdardonl]

«Una mentira repetida mil veces se convierte en una verdad.» ―Göbbels

[planeteuropa]

Religion is actually a very powerful political weapon. That is the primary purpose of religion and why it was developed or invented.

[_SMITH]

Don't think for one second that this type of shit could never happen again.

[johndorilag]

Can you also do a video on the English Inquisition?

[magentapyramid]

Some of these illustrations showed the people who were inflicting these tortures had big grins on their faces. How evil do you have to be to get your jollies watching other human beings being abused, tormented and eventually executed? Gives Saturday Night entertainment a whole new meaning and horrendous level.

[mikeflysnj]

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg

[earthcrawler]

If there is a hell of some kind, I hope the people that inflicted those kinds of torture on people went there!! Humans are savages

[colinmoore]

All that comes to mind is the phrase from the movie Equilibrium:

"Man's inhumanity to man."

[sheepdog]

They did all this in the name of GOD! I feel certain that this is not what he would want. This was pure evil done by men who claim to be Christian and that type still exist today.

[michaelcampin]

My history teacher the late Kevin Jolly was a lay preacher and taught us well. However he said the Papal Inquisition was a lot worse than the Spanish Inquisition

[BamBamBigelow..]

Something about the hair shirt just seems devious in a subtle way, like a constant itch that cannot be scratched

[elteescat]

I once took a tour of a "torture museum" in which various forms of torture were explained by a tour guide as you walk through the museum and see mock up scenes depicting the torture, complete with screaming faced mannequins and recordings of screams playing on a loop. The one I thought was most intense was the evisceration display! A red rope resembling intestines was being pulled out of the mannequin's belly and the screams were just woah! As the tour guide calmly explained that the victims would survive for days without their intestines and were simply left to suffer until death! Talk about sadistic!

[LRBerry]

The very thought these methods were used on a person has left me feeling rather unwell,

[sharonott]

It's amazing the methods of torture that were devised and inflicted on people. You wonder of the sickness in their minds.

[loisreese]

Another banger. Really enjoying this channel! Cheers

[Manasses]

And there was always a man of God present, giving the orders.

[johnelway]

All of these torture methods are still used today. For example waterboarding by the US the wheel (tire) in Syria the strappado in Ethiopia etc

[TheSiameseDreamer]

Ironic that they thought they were doing good when committing such evil.

[ronashman]

When speaking to Roman Catholics about this piece of history, I have had them completely reject that it happened.