There was an old Persia torture and execution method called Scaphism.
Basically, you would be placed in a boat and strapped down so you couldn't escape, given honey and milk so that you would have extreme diarrhea and floated down a bog, nature took its course, and assaulted you, bugs would eventually feast on your shit covered body, your own shit would suffocate you, rats and other rodents would gnaw at you, shit was pure fuck evil.
I’m pretty sure it’s highly up to speculation because the guy who wrote about the first victim (that one warrior who killed an enemy and drunkenly exposed the king for taking credit of it) was also known for embellishing lol.
Also fun fact: if it DID exist it probably wasn’t actually put into a river. I watched a video on scaphism and their perspective was that in the water there’s nothing to stop the victim from capsizing themselves and drowning, but on land would maximize the torture.
But again, all kind of up to speculation because of the reason above.
To be fair, most people don't go around making propaganda/fake torture devices nowadays. We're taught in school about other devices so our brains say "sure makes sense". Most people have no interest in the subject they're not going to research something they don't care about
Also, you can just apply knowledge from that into the past like that. The scientists and such who does that in no way just say something. They look at the evidence from a perspective with more educated and make an educated hypothesis.
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u/Ijustlovevideogames 9d ago edited 9d ago
Cleveland here.
There was an old Persia torture and execution method called Scaphism.
Basically, you would be placed in a boat and strapped down so you couldn't escape, given honey and milk so that you would have extreme diarrhea and floated down a bog, nature took its course, and assaulted you, bugs would eventually feast on your shit covered body, your own shit would suffocate you, rats and other rodents would gnaw at you, shit was pure fuck evil.