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1.
The cage is a means of deterrment as much as torture. By leaving
the victims festering, wretched body, and before too long--
corpse, on display for the public to see, they will know the
fate of those who do wrong. After the victims body has
been tortured,
it will be hung, naked, for all to see in the public square.
If it is winter, the cold snow and rain will perhaps induce
fever, or if they
are fortunate, hypothermia. In the summer, their flesh will
be blistered from your unprotected body by the sun. In either
case,
lack of food and water will only enhance their body's weakened
state, making them more vulnerable to diseases which seek to
infect their wounds.
When they are at last dead, the birds of the sky will pick the
rotted flesh from their bones. Bones which will hang for some
time to
come to remind all of their sins A zealous observer might notice
the short chain and neck shackle which force the victim to
remain standing, lest they be suffocated. Though inevitably,
their limbs will tire from exhaustion and lack of food and water,
or
they will no longer be able to remain awake. This is when their
sin tainted body will at last give up its soul.
2.
These tall iron cages were set up outside near a main crossroad,
usually several in a row. This was very popular in Europe,
before the end of the eighteenth century.
The naked or nearly naked victims were locked into the cages
and hung up. They usually died of hunger and thirst, or in the
winter by storm and cold, and in summer by heatstroke and sunburn;
often they had been tortured and mutilated. The deceased
bodies were generally left in place until the bones fell apart.
3.
A large metal cage hung from a high distance. The cage pictured
above is designed for the person to stand up until he was dead.
After he was put in a noose was tied around his neck so in the
case he wanted to sit, he would strangle himself. Eventually
his
mustles would give way and he would stangle to death, leaving
his carcus to be picked apart by crows.
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