Torture methods explained with Alice - Episode 1: Strappado

[Bandy]

You are confusing water boarding with water torture.
Medieval water torture consists of the naked victim tightly bound to a ladder rack, angled so feet above head
Cords inexorably tighten cutting into the sufferers flesh, as they writhe in agony
A funnel is placed in mouth with a thin rag inside and up to 4 gallons of filthy water or other liquids in the torture chamber.
The poor creature has no choice but to swallow the water.
as the girl lays naked the cruel men seeing her distended belly beat on her stomach or place heavy weights on her them ripping the rag out of the funnel now covered with mucous and blood, the girl is questioned and if her answers aren't accepted the water torture begins again

 

[Edmondab]

Actually, I like to dunk her head down to the water barrel.

 

[SirMGBZ]

Actually, I like to dunk her head down to the water barrel.

Or the modern equivalent, the swirly. ;-)

 

[Bandy]

The dunking or ducking stool had the girl bound to a chair that was attached to a long pole and when the chair was lowered onto the water with the girl bound to it, she was submerged for minutes trying to hold her breath.
This torture was repeated until she drowned or confessed

 

[thecuriousone]

The dunking or ducking stool had the girl bound to a chair that was attached to a long pole and when the chair was lowered onto the water with the girl bound to it, she was submerged for minutes trying to hold her breath.
This torture was repeated until she drowned or confessed

Knowing that it is almost impossible to hold your breath in cold water, the ones subjected to it would wish that it was summer, or their chance of survival would be small.