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It is claimed that as many as 200,000 people were burned for witchcraft in\u00a0Europe\u00a0in 16th and 17th centuries.<\/p>\n
Three slightly different methods of burning were used. The\u00a0first,\u00a0consisted of using a heap of faggots piled around a wooden stake above which the prisoner was attached with chains or iron hoops. The British and Spanish Inquisition preferred this method as it had the greatest visual impact.\u00a0\u00a0This form of burning typically subjects the prisoner to a far more agonizing death as it some time before the flames reach head level.\u00a0\u00a0In most cases of treason and witchcraft the prisoner was strangled first before the fire was lit.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Scotland\u00a0the strangling formed part of the sentence for convicted witches.<\/p>\n
The second method was to tie the condemned to the stake and heap faggots all round them, effectively hiding their sufferings, so that they died inside a wall of\u00a0flames .\u00a0It is said that Joan of Arc died like this.\u00a0\u00a0It is thought that this method led to a much quicker death because the victim was forced to breathe the flame and hot gasses surrounding their face.\u00a0\u00a0The heat of the air causes the lining of the trachea to swell up thus blocking the airway and leading to suffocation within a few minutes.<\/p>\n
The third method, used in\u00a0Germany\u00a0and the Nordic countries, involved tying the prisoner to a near vertical ladder, the top of which was tied to a frame, and then swinging them down onto the fire.<\/p>\n
Culled from: Capital Punishment U.K.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I was a kid, my favorite thing to do was to look at books and magazines. \u00a0We hadNational Geographics<\/em> going back to the 50’s, and I had favorite articles that I would obsess over again and again. \u00a0(Namely, the Anchorage Earthquake article and the one about the guy who went sailing around the world alone with his cat. Kind of sums up my future there in two articles.)<\/p>\n When I wasn’t perusing the National Geographics<\/em>, I was certainly gazing at my favorite book: The Treatment of Emergencies<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Hubley R. Owen, M.D.,\u00a0<\/em>1918. And for good reason too – there were some ghastly photographs of injuries in the book. \u00a0Even the “how-to” photos were kind of creepy in their way. So I thought I’d share some of the images that shaped the formative mind of The Comtesse.<\/p>\n There’s this signature in the front of the book. I might have to snoop around for a Dr. Cooper in the Hollingsworth Building, Los Angeles sometime… The first chapter is entitled “Fractures” and has lovely images like these:<\/p>\nArcane Excerpts: Fractured Edition!<\/h3>\n
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