History Horrors

I know we’ve covered some pretty awful torture methods on History Horrors, but this one…I’m getting chills and my anus is tightening up.

Take a close look at the picture, give it a moment…

That’s a chair. That thing is meant for people to sit on. It’s called a Judas Chair because obviously whoever earned the right to take that seat must have betrayed the government or God (God and government are often the same thing in history).

The Judas Chair, which is also called The Judas Cradle, is said to have been used by The Spanish Inquisition. This, however, is in dispute by historians who say The Spanish Inquisition would never use such a device because it would be considered a “sexual deviancy” and it would break the skin (one of their restrictions in torturing). Seeing as how The Spanish Inquisition hardly represents true morality and leaned towards corruption and hypocrisy, other historians maintain that just maybe some of the Spanish hierarchy got off on inventing such malevolent ways of “purging sin” and gaining a confession.

Now if you haven’t guessed what happens to the victim of the Judas Chair, let me enlighten you. You sit on it. Not in your clothes, in the nude. As it is shaped like a pyramid, where do you think that will lead to as you slip slowly down and…yep, straight up into the buttocks to find the hole. Over several hours the weight of your body would increase the size of your once small orifice and eventually it would begin to rip.

If the Spanish weren’t responsible, then who?

It is possible the device was not used specifically to aim for the anus, or in some cases the vagina? The victim may have been strapped to ropes that once lowered could cause pain in several different areas of the body such as the buttocks, lower or upper spine or flip the victim over and pain could be inflicted on the chest or stomach. Certainly that may have been one way the chair was used but why go to so much trouble to torture other areas of the body using such an inconvenient torture device. The chair, by all appearances, seems to be shaped perfectly for torturing someone who is force to sit on it.

We’ll let the historians battle it out. Maybe someone from the past is having a laugh at us and designed the thing as a hoax. Knowing how horrific history can be though, I would bet The Judas Chair split at least a handful of assholes in its day.

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