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Pendulum (torture device)
The pendulum was an instrument of torture and execution claimed to have been used by the Spanish Inquisition as recently as the early 19th Century. The allegation is contained in the book ''The history of the Inquisition of Spain '' (1826) by the Spanish priest, historian and liberal activist Juan Antonio Llorente. A swinging pendulum whose edge is a knife blade slowly descends toward a bound prisoner until it cuts into their body. The method of torture came to popular consciousness through the 1842 short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" by American author Edgar Allan Poe but there is considerable skepticism that it actually was used.
==Operation of the pendulum==
The victim was first bound to a wooden bench with ropes so that it was impossible for him to move. Above the victim was a crescent-shaped blade suspended from a rod which swung back and forth as a pendulum. Gradually the bar to which the swinging blade was attached would be lowered, bringing it closer and closer to the victim's abdomen. It would usually be at this point that the victim would confess. If no confession was made, the blade was lowered until it began cutting through the victim's torso. Eventually, the victim would be cleaved in two.
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