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A method of torture to death - The Brass Bull (@standinghistory)

No one likes to think about death, but it's probably the only thing in life that's sure to happen to you (except maybe paying taxes).

But think about the positive side: there is a very high chance that you will not die in the "brass bull".

If you were wondering what the brass bull is and why you should be glad you haven't heard of it - well, it is an ancient torture device that was invented in ancient Greece and was also common in ancient Rome and it probably provides the most horrible and difficult way to die.

This is a bull made of brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) hollow inside, with a door on the side.

The victim was placed inside the bull, and a fire was lit under the bull.

The metal would heat up until it turned yellow, and the person inside would be roasted to death.

That's how it worked

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But the torture would not end there.

The head of this brutal statue contained a system of pipes, so that the screams of the person being tortured to death sounded like the roaring of a raging bull.

Legend has it that Phalaris, ruler of Acragas (now Sicily), wanted to test the bull's musical ability.

They put incense near the bull's nostrils, so that the smoke coming out of it would smell good.

Finally, what was left of the bones of the martyr would be used to make jewelry.

According to some historians, Palaris, who was apparently a sadist and psychopath.

Ordered this torture device according to special instructions from the sculptor Frills.

And then, to test the effectiveness of the tool, he put Priles himself into it, and he was executed as the bull's first relative (according to some versions, the statue was taken out of the bull before it died, but was then thrown off a cliff).

This cruel method of killing and torturing came to an end after the tyrant Phalaris was overthrown by Telemachus who took possession of Acragas and punished Phalaris by executing him with the same terrible device he himself had invented.

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