Brutal History : 5 Craziest Torture Methods of All-Time

Humans have long came up with methods of punishing criminals, villains, or anyone who’s unlucky enough to mess with the wrong people, at the wrong place and time. Hanging, burning, stoning, caning, those are among the popular ones, the ones we are all familiar with. But what about the ones that are just plain mad and cruel, the craziest ones? These are torture method that causes not only physical pain, but is psychologically destructive, leaves deep mental scar if not crippled for the rest of their lives or worse, death.
Also known as “Slow slicing” or “Death by 1000 cuts”. The convict was tied to a post and small slices are carefully made, ensuring that vital organs and arteries are not cut. Then, bits of skin and limbs were removed one at a time, slowly to ensure that they suffer through the process.

Some records state that salt is poured on the wounds to make it worse for the convict. Used in China from as early as the 10th century and was banned in 1905 - a thousand years later.

Yeah, as the name suggests. Note the shears with crocodile-shaped head and teeth, those are first heated up until they are glowing red. Then they’ll be used to clamp the unlucky man’s genitals, where they’ll be snatched with brute force.

Rarely do the men die because of this alone, death was often a slow one due to the infection. They’ll also rip off the finger, toes, ear or other body part that can be ripped apart. This punishment was specifically for those who had attempted to assassinate the king.

The next torture methods came around in Greece in which was designed to torture criminals. It is a huge bull with a hollow inside that can fit a person in it. The bull was made out of bronze and has a door at the side - to shove the unlucky criminal inside.

Fire is then lit under the bull, cooking the person inside, alive. It is interesting to note that the contraption was fitted with pipes in such a way that the screams of the dying person would resemble the bellowing of an angry bull as onlookers will be hearing the person inside scream till he’s cooked - we mean, dead.