Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz
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The Ratm, I Think It's My Treasure Island
There's a lot of torture happening around us. The rack was, i mean, according to historians, used, but also not during the middle ages. One of the other most popular mediaeval torture devices is the ratm which i'm familiar from because i feel like in a muppet's movie, gonzo gets stretched out and then his arms, legs become long. I remember he really liked, i think it's my treasure island. And he did really like it. But mostly the purpose was for prisoners to be shown it and be threatened with it. That's what we still do to day.
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