The Judas cradle is now thought to be a fictional invention
I think choke pears are a bit dubious too. Your point still stands though.
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They had them in
the Museum of Torture in Amsterdam, along with the flour bags that would weigh them down.
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I saw the model with the bags in Anne Summers..
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A lot of things like that were mocked up for sideshows in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Actual medieval torture, while admittedly brutal, tended to be of the straighforward, poker-up-the-arse variety
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