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[[1]] Goat tongue is a method of torture involving soaking the feet in salt water and allowing a goat to lick the soles. It is very ticklish and is a form of tickle torture. It has been claimed that a goat's tongue, being very rough, will gradually strip all the flesh from the feet, even down to the bone. One cannot be certain whether this is true, but it is undoubtedly true that Transylvanian prince Vlad Ţepeş (the historical Dracula) was fond of applying this torture to his Turkish prisoners as their feet were immobilized in the stocks, with a steady supply of salt water dripped onto the sufferer's feet from above. Sawing is a method of torture and execution. The condemned was hung upside down and then sawed apart down the middle, starting at the crotch. Since the condemned was hanging upside-down, the brain received a continuous blood supply in spite of severe bleeding. The victim would remain alive and conscious until the saw severed the major blood vessels of the abdomen, and sometimes even longer. In Asian countries, the condemned stood up while constrained and sawing started at the head, which resulted in a much quicker death. The Blood Eagle was reportedly a method of torture and execution that is sometimes mentioned in Norse saga literature. It was performed by cutting the ribs of the victim by the spine, breaking the ribs so they resembled blood-stained wings, and pulling the lungs out. Salt was sprinkled in the wounds. Victims of the blood-eagle ritual, as mentioned in skaldic poetry and the Norse sagas, are believed to have included King Ælla (Ella) of Northumbria, Halfdan son of King Haraldr Hárfagri of Norway, King Edmund, King Maelgualai of Munster, and possibly Archbishop Ælfheah. Exposure in animal skin was a method of torturous execution in remote times; it involved sewing up the victim inside the skin of a dead animal, typically with a fair amount of its putrescent flesh still attached. The queerly clothed victim was taken to the top of a hill and bound in place, typically with only his face exposed. The scent quickly attracted vultures, which tore through the skin of their peculiar prize and helped themselves to generous morsels of flesh and internal organs. Death was quite slow and particularly horrible. In torture, carding involved scraping or tearing the victim's flesh with metal combs normally used for combing wool. Combs usually had one or two rows of teeth, each a few inches in length. These are the "wool combs" used to prepare fiber (such as wool) for worsted-spun thread, not the more modern, short-toothed carders used to prepare wool for woolen spinning. Dismemberment is the act of cutting, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise removing, the limbs of a living thing. It can be a form of capital punishment, an accident, or possibly a murder or suicide. As opposed to surgical amputation of the limbs, dismemberment is often fatal. Dismemberment was carried out in the Medieval era by tying a person's limbs to a chain or other constraint, whereby attaching the restraint to two separate movable entities (eg. a vehicle) and moving them in the opposite directions. Also referred to as "disruption" or being "drawn and quartered", it could be brought about by chaining four horses to the victim's arms and legs, thus making them pull him apart, as was the case with the execution of Robert-François Damiens and François Ravaillac in 1610. Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia, executed in 613 is generally regarded as having suffered the same death, though she was tied to the tail of a single horse. In 1998, three men from Texas dismembered James Byrd, Jr. by chaining him to their pickup truck and dragging him for miles. In 2005, a University of Texas at Austin student dismembered a young woman by cutting off her hands and head. A famous device used for dismemberment is the rack, upon which the victim is chained down by the wrists and ankles, on a large bed-like frame, and a wheel is subsequently turned, winding in the chains and causing an immense stretching.

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