Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz
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What Happened to a Coin Forger in Nuremberg?
The first written record of an ron maiden comes from the end of the 17 hundreds. There's a sort of historian travel writer named johann philip sibinski who writes about an execution happening in 15 15 in nuremburg. Two things to flag, 15 15 is not the middle ages. He says that a coin forger was tortured in what describes as a now we call an iron maiden.
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