Forms of Historical Corporal Punishment Quiz

Foot Whipping or Bastinado is a form of punishment where the person is required to be barefoot and the beating is typically inflicted with a cane or a crop on the ____________ of the foot.

Impalement, as a form of capital punishment, involves the penetration of an organism by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, resulting in complete or partial perforation of the body's central body mass. It is also known as ____________.

The Iron Boot was a torture device designed to cause crushing injuries to the foot and/or leg, inflicting immense pain by applying pressure to the ____________.

In the Milk & Honey punishment method, the person was encased in a box with only the head, hands, and feet protruding. They were forcibly fed with milk and honey, which was also smeared on their face, and then exposed to the sun for seventeen (17) days until they were devoured alive by ____________.

The Treadmill punishment involved making the prisoner continually climb stairs up to 14,000 feet, subjecting them to endless labor and exhaustion as a form of ____________.

The curb-plate was studded with spikes to inflict pain and prevent the offender from speaking. If the offender moved their tongue, it would be impossible to speak due to the inflicted ____________.

___ is a wooden or metal device mounted on a post with three holes to fit the head and the wrists.

An offender had to bend down while standing up, while his head and wrists are trapped in the _____.

The crowd were allowed and even encouraged to spit at the offender, throw rotten food, dirt, mud, and even human wastes to the offender, as part of his _____.

Stocks is a wooden device with holes for the wrists and legs, but not for the _____.

Human branding or stigmatizing is the process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it _____.

Flagellation or flogging -is the act of methodically beating or whipping the human body. The word flagellation was derived from the Latin word “flagellum,” which means _____.

______ involves the tossing of heavy rocks and stones at the victim until death.

Mutilation is the cutting off of an organ of the body. As punishment, mutilation is done in accordance with the law of retaliation, or ______.

______ is a box-like structure with the front half hinged like a door so that a person could be placed inside. When the door was shut, protruding spikes both back and front entered the body of the prisoner.

The ______ is a device that drags apart the joints in the feet and hands.

______ (or Skevington's Daughter) was an A-frame shaped metal rack to which the head was strapped to the top point of the A, the hands at the midpoint and the legs at the lower spread ends; swinging the head down and forcing the knees up in a sitting position compressing the body so as to force the blood from the nose and ears.

______ sometimes called a Brank's Bridle or simply Branks – an instrument of punishment used primarily on women, as a form of torture and public humiliation.