Instruments of torture: the spider. The Spanish spider looks like a hair clip and moves that way. Only the tips of iron were and were not pushed into the hair but under the skin, usually in sensitive areas such as the neck or inner thigh. Then you could attach to the Spanish spider a rope and pull the defendants with a pulley in the air, woodcut from 1864

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