Rope torture

Rope torture

Rope torture was 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Tj7vbMmuvhYC&pg=PA245&lpg=PA245&dq=huguenot+rope+torture&source=web&ots=Sm3GsnoW9o&sig=aDDxkcJC8uJQ_dpXCsKHeQWsoDo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result]

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