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WITCHCRAFT - TORTURES Illustration of the variety of methods of torture, as practised in Germany in the early 16th century. From the top, reading from left to right - burning to death,
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![A man is led in chains before a jury while various forms of torture are enacted in the background, such as burning, hammering to death, breaking on the wheel and hanging. Woodcut. A man is led in chains before a jury while various forms of torture are enacted in the background, such as burning, hammering to death, breaking on the wheel and hanging. Woodcut.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0041729/full/full/0/default.jpg)
A man is led in chains before a jury while various forms of torture are enacted in the background, such as burning, hammering to death, breaking on the wheel and hanging. Woodcut.
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