ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STRAPPADO
From French strapade, from Italian strappare to tug sharply, probably of Germanic origin; related to German (dialect) strapfen to make taut.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRAPPADO»
Discover the use of
strappado in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
strappado and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Strappado for the Divell
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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Strappado for the Devil
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
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Strappado for the Diuell
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: The Laughing Lion and the Strutting Fox
He was imprisoned and tortured with the strappado. Sebastian de Grazia
gracefully describes the brutality: Your wrists are tied behind your back and
bound to a rope hanging from a pulley. The other end of the rope is pulled down
and you are ...
Raymond Angelo Belliotti, 2010
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Strappado for the Diuell Epigrams and Satyres Alluding to ...
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Similarly, in the classic strappado, guards tie a victim's hands behind his back.
They then hoist him from the ground by means of a hook and pulley, drop him to
the floor and repeat the process. The strappado can easily dislocate the
shoulders ...
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Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652
... in sixteenth-century fraud cases who were also asked whether they were
witches in the course of their trials. In 1 569, Anna Muller was subjected to three
sessions of torture (two of strappado and one of strappado and thumbscrews)
during ...
408a sciatica an attack of a disease characterized by pain in the great sciatic
nerve and its branches. 1 Gentleman asks Mistress Overdone, in MM, 1.2.54–5, '
How now, which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?' 409 strappado a
form ...
Richard Brome, Tiffany Stern, 2014
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The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
“Strappado,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strappado (accessed 7/7/12). Juan Bautista
Tupac Amaru, Cuarenta años de cautiverio (memorias del inka Juan Bautista
Túpac Amaru), ed. Francisco A. Loayza (Lima: D. Miranda, 1945), 28–32.
CDBRETA ...
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Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide
He was tortured at the fortress of Breendonk in Belgium for information he did not
possess. emerging from the Holocaust as Jean améry, he wrote of his ordeal,
which included the strappado, an invention of the inquisition.8 in the strappado ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRAPPADO»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
strappado is used in the context of the following news items.
It's time for Obama to shake some sense into the Germans about the …
... reason to think they'll pull the same trick should one of the other suffering periphery countries, like Spain or Italy, try to escape from the austerity strappado. «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
Two Female Prisoners Abused in Israeli Jails
Abu Sharar was also threatened with the imposition of sanctions against her, including travel ban and the usage of strappado torture; where a person gets hung ... «WAFA - Palestine News Agency, Jul 15»
'I must save my life and not risk my family's safety!': Untold Stories of …
There, Hala was a subject of a technique of tortured called Strappado. Her wrists were tied with a rope behind her back and then she was suspended in the air ... «Jadaliyya, Jul 15»
The 25 Most Unimaginable Medieval Torture Devices!
The Strappado is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are first tied behind his or her back and suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to wrists, ... «moviepilot.com, Mar 15»
The Spanish Inquisition
... victims were subjected to gruesome punishments such as strangulation, being stretched on the rack, waterboarding or put through strappado, a gruelling form ... «The New Indian Express, Nov 14»
Happy Ending in One Part of the Austin Case of Antonio Buehler …
Buehler probed the officers with questions as he took pictures of the male officers holding the female passengers in a torture hold, known as the Strappado ... «Reason, Oct 14»
New Pakistan law will likely worsen torture by police
They applied the strappado, hanging victims by their wrists with their arms pulled behind their backs, and left the victims in this position for lengthy periods of ... «Baltimore Sun, Aug 14»
My Turn: Torture is a crime, so why don't we treat it like one
Torturers also used a technique called the strappado. Victims were suspended from the ceiling with their hands tied behind their back. Weights could get tied to ... «Concord Monitor, Aug 14»
A guide to marriage, moving and fatherhood – and also not a bad …
Forget strappado (a torture whereby you're strung up by your arms behind your back) or flagellation or sensory deprivation. Moving to Acton: that's what'll break ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 14»
Revealed: Police investigate evidence that six CIA torture flights …
... him to Afghanistan, where he was regularly beaten and placed in the “strappado” position – hanging from the ceiling with his feet barely touching the ground. «Scottish Daily Record, Jun 14»
