Rope (torture)

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The rope was an instrument of torture used by the Huguenots in their persecution of Catholics, and involved sawing the human body with a hard-fibered rope. The victim would be stripped naked, and dragged back and forth across the rope while the fibers cut into the flesh.[1]

References

  1. Scott, George Ryley (2013). The History Of Torture. Routledge. ISBN 9781136191671. Retrieved 12 July 2015.