Cultural Customs： Time To Bring Back The Brazen Bull？
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about torture in the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Middle Ages. We also hear about a new addition to The Torturer's Apprentice, a musical homage to torture devices used in the past.
Transcript
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Well, speaking about the Stone Age, well, technically the Bronze Age would be more appropriate.
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Here's one cultural custom that we can pick back up, I think.
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Many people talk about, you know, putting pedophiles in wood chippers.
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Or there's a lot of popular talk about the trebuchet or like the catapult right now.
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Apparently the worst torture device in history.
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So you actually put the person inside of the bowl here, right?
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While you actually heat it up from the outside with a fire underneath it.
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I can think of a few people that are worthy of this treatment.
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This is a shiny brass replica of a bull, but much more than just an ordinary statue.
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This hollow bull, made without a face, has a cover on its side.
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The victim being placed inside this bull and scorched with the heat of the metal until the bull turned red from the burning fire below.
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In the head of the bull, various pipes designed by Perilus and some complex tools such as whistles were placed.
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Thanks to these instruments, the voice of the victim turned into a voice resembling the bellowing of an angry bull.
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They talk about the British having some advanced torture things.
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Well, like in the Middle Ages, I guess, overall, the medieval period or stuff like that.
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Yeah, but even using the voice of the tortured person inside as part of it is like, wow.
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Well, you know, I'll tell you, some people definitely deserve this.
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Perhaps you would care for a little light entertainment while you wait.