Torture, The Breaking Wheel, 1517

Satan carrying off the soul of a witch and the rupture of a criminal on the wheel. A witch is a person, usually a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic, especially black magic or the black art. Witchcraft is the use of magical faculties, most commonly for religious, divinatory or medicinal purposes. This may take many forms depending on cultural context. The belief in and the practice of magic has been present since the earliest human cultures and continues to have an important religious and medicinal role in many cultures today. The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel or simply the wheel, was a torture device used for capital punishment from antiquity into early modern times for public execution by breaking the criminal's bones/bludgeoning him to death

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1517 Antichrist Beelzebub Beelzebul Cruel Cruelty Infamous Inhumane Inhumanity Lucifer Method Notorious Occult Occultism Satan Sixteenth Sorcerer Sorceress Sorcery Torturer Torturing Witchcraft Witchery Witches Woodblock

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