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The 18 Most Painful and Demented Types of Ancient Punishment

Though there may be plenty of ways to skin a cat, there are even more ways to drive a human to the brink of insanity — just ask anyone who was alive in medieval times. Skinning. Quartering. Yeeting someone down a hole and throwing away the key. If it's sadistic and crazy, you can be sure our insane ancestors thought of it first.

From the rack to the heretic’s fork and even the tunes of the metal band Metallica, here are 20 terrible means of torture from throughout the annals of history.

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