We're all aware of scary and vicious animals in this world but many say that
the most scary creature is us humans and I think this invention might just prove
it the brazen bull is said to be the worst punishment in all of human history
it was a torch for an execution device designed in ancient Greece
it's unimaginably cruel and genius and it's quite a stunning story when you
hear what happened to the inventor and proposer of this I'm Charlie and today
we're going to look at at the brazen bull the worst punishment in history
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brazen bull went by many names such as the bronze bull or the Sicilian bull it
was a device designed for torture and execution of criminals we know all about
this ancient device because it was written about in the bibliotheca
historica or the historical library this is basically a history of the world as
told by Greek historian diodorus siculus once a phalaris the tyrant of a kreygas
Sicily wanted a new means of executing criminals he wanted something so cruel
that it would make no one want to commit any crimes against him and he could also
use it to punish his political enemies of which he had many so that's when he
consulted hair-loss of athens who was an inventor it's not exactly known when he
built the brazen bull but it said he pitched it somewhere between 570 and 550
for BC valorous loved the idea because he was a total madman after all he was
literally known as the tyrant of Accra gasps so he paid power loss a lot of
money to make the brazen bull out of bronze faller is said he wanted
something very evil and cruel after all this is a man so evil he would sometimes
eat babies so perilous went to work and created the brazen bull it was made
entirely out of bronze totally hollow inside and on the side of it was a small
tool it was designed in the form and size of a real bull and inside it had an
acoustic apparatus this would convert the victims screams into the sound of a
bull a criminal would get inside it and a fire would be lit underneath the bull
the person would then slowly be cooked until they passed away this would take
many hours and is said to be the worst pay
imaginable bronze is known to heat up to extreme temperatures and there was no
way out when the victim was screaming in pain his sounds would be made into that
of a bull that's because of a carefully distorted pipe system inside the brazen
bull this would give anyone watching the spectacle quite a show it would look
like a bull screaming in pain when in reality it was a man woman or child
there was also holes in the nose area of the brazen bull this is where smoke
would come out making it into even more of a spectacle of course burning flesh
does not have a good smell so that's why a nice incense was put in the nostrils
of the brazen bull after the victim was totally burned too the bull would be
opened back up their bones would then be collected and made into a bracelet kind
of like a creepy momentum when perilous made this he brought it to the tyrant
phalaris and he said to phalaris your victim will be punished and you can sit
back and enjoy the music but there was a twist phalaris said he wanted fellers to
confirm that it worked he said get inside and pretend to scream so I know
the acoustic apparatus works parallel obliged and got into the brazen bull and
began to shout but as he did this phalaris locked him inside and lit a
fire underneath taking his life some say this is because phalaris did not want to
pay but because he was so rich many historians doubt this instead some say
it's because phalaris was so taken aback by his cruelty phalaris apparently said
that Perales had a genius cruelty however later on Fela Ross got his
comeuppance in about 550 BC he had his downfall he was overthrown by Telemachus
this was the theron of Accra gas and phallus was then put in his own brazen
bull and burnt so he literally got Karma for what he did he was pertinent vention
that he commissioned it's kind of ironic that both the inventor and Fonda met
their fates inside the brazen bull this of course all happened in ancient Greece
but apparently that's not where the use of the brazen bull stopped it said that
in ancient Rome the brazen bull was also used this was during the Romans
persecution of Christians famously sent Huestis was apparently roasted in the
brazen bull with his wife and children this was done by Emperor Hadrian the
Bishop of Pergamon was also said to have been roasted in the brazen bull this was
done in 92 c ii by emperor Domitian some also claimed that the
vice was used two centuries later this was when Pelageya of Tarsus was burnt in
it in 287 C e and it was apparently last used in the year 497 that is when a
Roman usurper was roasted in the bull by King Alaric ii so there we have the
total history of the worst punishment in the history of mankind it really makes
you think although we have bad punishments now at least it's not as bad
as this I wonder what things we do today which seem normal will be seen as
totally brutal in years to come one thing is for certain humans sure can be
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