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Spanish Inquisition - Torture techniques used | | Spanish Inquisition - Torture techniques used: Encyclopedia II - Spanish Inquisition - Torture techniques used | | According to a joint BBC/A&E production called "Myths of the Spanish Inquisition" (1994), torture chambers did not exist during the Spanish Inquisition, and the Spanish Inquisition used torture "very infrequently". For example, in Valencia, out of over 7,000 documented cases, less than 2% experienced any torture at all, usually for no more than fifteen minutes. Less than 1% experienced torture more than once. Researchers found no cases experiencing torture more than twice. Uncertainties surrounding the Inquis ...
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Spanish Inquisition - Torture techniques used
According to a joint BBC/A&E production called "Myths of the Spanish Inquisition" (1994), torture chambers did not exist during the Spanish Inquisition, and the Spanish Inquisition used torture "very infrequently". For example, in Valencia, out of over 7,000 documented cases, less than 2% experienced any torture at all, usually for no more than fifteen minutes. Less than 1% experienced torture more than once. Researchers found no cases experiencing torture more than twice. Uncertainties surrounding the Inquisitions have been investigated by Edward Peters and Henry Kamen.
Many of the torture methods tributed to the Spanish Inquisition were never used. For example, the "iron maiden" never existed in Spain, and was a post-Reformation invention of Germany. Also, thumb-screws on display in an English museum as Spanish Inquisition torture devices, were only recently attributed to their true origin: William Cecil's persecution of Catholics during Elizabeth I's reign.
The use of torture was common at the time and there is a tendency for any medieval torture technique to be automatically attributed to the Spanish Inquisition. Many techniques commonly attributed in popular fiction were probably never used:
- Bricking a defendant up to starve to death.
- Smashing a defendant's joints with hammers.
- Flailing a defendant on the wheel.
- Ravishing female defendants.
Torquemada documented some of his techniques. A favorite was tortura del’agua (or water torture), in which the victim was strapped to a rack, his mouth forced open with a rag, water was then forced down the throat so that the victim thought he was drowning. In another technique, the garrucha, the victim's hands were tied behind his back at the wrists. The victim was then lifted off the ground by the wrists. The 'Spanish chair', a device used to hold the victim while the soles of their feet were roasted, was certainly in existence in Spain during the period of the Inquisition. It is uncertain, however, whether it was acutally utilized.
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