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"The Spanish Tickler" was a particularly cruel and terrifying torture device used during the medieval and early modern periods, particularly in Spain and other parts of Europe. Its purpose was to cause excruciating pain while stripping the victim’s skin from their body in a slow, methodical process. The device itself consisted of a set of sharp, curved metal claws attached to a handle, resembling a clawed rake or spade.
The Spanish Tickler was typically used for flaying, a method of torturing someone by removing their skin, often while they were still alive. The tool would be dragged across the victim’s skin, tearing the flesh off the bones in jagged pieces. It was designed to inflict deep, agonizing wounds and to slowly peel away the skin without immediately killing the person, ensuring that the suffering could be prolonged for hours, or even days.
The Spanish Tickler was often used during interrogations or public executions, as a way of both extracting confessions or punishing perceived traitors and serving as a horrifying example of the power of the authorities. The pain was unimaginable, and victims often died from shock, blood loss, or infection long after the initial torture had ended.
This tool was one of the many instruments of torture employed in a time when brutality was seen as a necessary means of maintaining order and extracting information from those accused of serious crimes, particularly heresy, treason, or witchcraft. The Spanish Tickler is remembered as a symbol of the extreme lengths to which people in power would go to punish their enemies, leaving behind a legacy of suffering that has made it infamous throughout history.
The Spanish Tickler was typically used for flaying, a method of torturing someone by removing their skin, often while they were still alive. The tool would be dragged across the victim’s skin, tearing the flesh off the bones in jagged pieces. It was designed to inflict deep, agonizing wounds and to slowly peel away the skin without immediately killing the person, ensuring that the suffering could be prolonged for hours, or even days.
The Spanish Tickler was often used during interrogations or public executions, as a way of both extracting confessions or punishing perceived traitors and serving as a horrifying example of the power of the authorities. The pain was unimaginable, and victims often died from shock, blood loss, or infection long after the initial torture had ended.
This tool was one of the many instruments of torture employed in a time when brutality was seen as a necessary means of maintaining order and extracting information from those accused of serious crimes, particularly heresy, treason, or witchcraft. The Spanish Tickler is remembered as a symbol of the extreme lengths to which people in power would go to punish their enemies, leaving behind a legacy of suffering that has made it infamous throughout history.
Just barely 17, stupidly got married.
17 for me
Me too
A ghost?
Hang laundry, wash out garbage cans
I had a hard time with this one but someone said witch on a broom for halloween cookies
can opener?
It's an old set of ignition points, a much needed car part on the old cars
These were replaced every tune up.
Remember when these were popular
We had a red one.
Vacuuming, dusting, folding laundry (I hated that one!), doing dishes, monitoring my younger siblings to make sure they got their rooms cleaned before Mom got home from work. I started helping with dinner when I was 10 and I was doing all the dinner cooking by 14.
My mom called that a bassinet. Seemed like there was always one in the house somewhere. I had four younger siblings....
I still use one of those.
That looks like my mom's makeup case she took whenever she went somewhere longer than overnight.
It wasn't a movie, but when I was 4 or 5, I watched an Outer Limits episode with a very scary looking alien in it. Scared me so bad, I actually hid under my bed, I kid you not. My dad, after pulling me out from under the bed, told me that Outer Limits was now Out of Limits because it was too scary.
I happened to see that same episode as an adult, and it turns out that "scary alien" was a person's fist in a rubber glove with a face drawn on it! I never laughed so hard in my life!
OK, it's official. It's been WAY too long since I worked on a car. I stared at that picture for the longest time. It was so familiar, but I couldn't remember what it was. Duh. Points.
I still have mine.
Who called the DJ and dedicated songs?
I remember doing that just to hear the DJ say my name on the radio. "Here's 'Sweet Caroline' requested by Lannie." That was so cool!
OMG, I almost got a hernia, I laughed so hard at this one!
And then the woman in the black pants looks like she's trying to give directions! I'm dying here!
Right up until the time the TV, VCR, and a box of VHS tapes got stolen, and my mom still didn't think locking the door might be a good idea.
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My parents had one complete with the color wheel.Who remembers when these first came out, some with the color wheel
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That's not a California thing...Who used to carry, as a kid or even now, a buckeye in their pockets for good luck
Yes definitely a locational thing but used to be folk lore that carrying one in your pocket brought good luck.
They are all over around here.
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