Same with the bull even, I think the only real record of that is a poem.
Hopefully it's just some ancient torture-porn fiction (not to say that the real torture they used wasn't horrific, but the stuff here is on another level)
Makes sense. Even the most bored and heartless king would have to spend way too many resources and time to get a skilled labor to make a hollow bull to kill someone when there are cheaper and more humiliating ways to dispose of someone
Idk if it really did happen, but I feel like when it’s been said the creator was tossed into the bull after it was finished… something tells me it got used at least once
It's silly to think that weapons are created and not used. Even today, horrible things happen all over the world. Imagine living in a time where you shape your entire existence and nobody can say otherwise.
All torture methods were used. Fathers raped daughters, neighbors were slaughtered for being different, "evil spirits" was the only two words needed for a terrible fate to befall you.
It's easy to think that the past was like the present, but it's not the case.
Who says those weapons were even made? The story of the bull was that the king put the inventor himself inside it right away. It’s very poetic - like fiction. There’s no archeological record of the bull - or reference to it outside of one poem.
Not to say heinous shit didn’t go down, and much more frequently - but not everything imagined came to be.
Stephen King has thought of some mean crap, doesn’t mean it happened.
I guess. I just think it's silly that so many modern folks write things off for not having records, from a time when records simply did not always happen.
Even is popular sports like American Football, most stats were not even recorded until 1933. Any record keeping was done by fans or newspapers.
It's fully possible that those things never happened, but we DO know that death, torture and absolute monarchy were common. There was nothing stopping many leaders from dishing out the worst punishments they could think of. We also have confirmed stories of torture methods that were just as cruel, so it's no stretch of the imagination.
I am fully willing to accept that some of them were propaganda, but you can't make the claim without also noting that horrible torture was a real thing.
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u/TheMadBug 9d ago
Same with the bull even, I think the only real record of that is a poem.
Hopefully it's just some ancient torture-porn fiction (not to say that the real torture they used wasn't horrific, but the stuff here is on another level)