The execution of Dracula the Impaler is impalement (impalement or impalement). Martin Monestier - Death penalty. History and types of capital punishment from the beginning of time to the present day

Ivan the Terrible respected this type of execution very much. “In charge” of the impalement, as well as a host of other types of savage executions, was his guardsman, the legendary sadist Malyuta Skuratov. At Lobnoye Mesto in Moscow, boyars, servicemen and lay people suspected of high treason were impaled. But even after Ivan IV, this favorite execution of Russian tsars did not lose its popularity.

In the summer of 1614, the state traitor, Cossack ataman Ivan Zarutsky, was impaled. Being a favorite of Marina Mnishek, he was an accomplice of False Dmitry I and participated in almost all the major conspiracies of the Time of Troubles. For all these “exploits,” the troublemaker was sentenced to one of the most brutal executions in Rus'.

The son of the famous governor Stepan Glebov was also executed by impalement. He was accused of having an affair with the first wife of Perth I, Evdokia Lopukhina, which amounted to high treason. Adultery was already listed as the second count of the guilty verdict. Stepan was executed in March 1718 in bitter cold. The convict was first brutally tortured. Then, on Red Square, in front of a crowd of 200,000, he was impaled, stripped naked.

Glebov suffered for 14 hours. A sheepskin coat was thrown over him so that the criminal would not die an hour ahead of time, freezing in the 20-degree frost. His disgraced lover was forced to watch the torture. When Stepan finally died, his head was cut off and his body was thrown into a common grave. Even this seemed not enough to the Emperor. 4.5 years later, on his order, the Holy Synod condemned the late lover to the empress imprisoned in the monastery with eternal anathema.

The topic began with a fragment of a wonderful book by my friend, writer and historian Vadim Erlikhman, about Dracula.

One of the chapters dealt with Saint Stephen, canonized by the Moldavian Orthodox Church. In Moldova he is considered one of the main national heroes.

“Stephan, Stefan cel Mare, was destined to rule for 47 years - the longest of all the rulers of Moldova, to fight in 47 battles and build 47 temples and monasteries. He went down in history with the titles of Great and Holy, although he shed no less blood than his renowned for centuries friend Vlad." Vadim, what a combination of the genre of hagiography and history in one book?! Do you believe in numerology?

“The Moldavian-German chronicle reports, for example, that in 1470 “Stephen went to Braila in Muntenia and shed a lot of blood and burned the market; and did not even leave a child alive in the womb, but ripped open the bellies of pregnant women and hung the babies on their necks.” Impalement was also a common thing for him;

the same chronicle from 1473 reports on Stephen’s reprisal against captured Turks: “He ordered them to be impaled on stakes crosswise through the navel, 2300 in total; and was busy with this for two days.”

The matter was not limited to the Turks: immediately after Stefan came to power, he ordered 60 boyars to be impaled, accusing them of murdering his father. So, it seems that Dracula was not at all unique in his love of barnacles."

Please note, by the way, that on the left is the autograph of Dracula, Vlad the Impaler.

Let's look at the holy deeds of Stephen the Great and his friend Vlad the Impaler a little more carefully. Already from another source () - how it happened: in the imagination Nobel laureate and according to a medical expert:

"Agnieszka Ucinska (FocusHistoria).

In the eastern lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, people were sentenced to impalement for treason. During this brutal execution, the victim lay spread out with his hands tied behind his back. To prevent the condemned person from moving, one of the executioner’s assistants sat on his shoulders. The executor drove the stake as deep as he could, and then hammered it even deeper with a hammer. The victim, “impaled,” was placed in a vertical position, and thus, thanks to the weight of his own body, the condemned man slid deeper and deeper onto the stake.

To facilitate the execution, the executioner coated the stake with lard. The tip of the stake was blunt and rounded so as not to pierce the internal organs. Provided the execution was carried out correctly, the stake found a “natural” path in the body and reached right up to the chest.

The most famous literary description of impalement was left to us by Henryk Sienkiewicz in “Pan Volodyevsky”:

“From the waist to the very feet, he was stripped naked and, slightly raising his head, he saw between his bare knees the freshly planed tip of a stake. The thick end of the stake rested on the tree trunk. Ropes stretched from both of Azya’s legs, and horses were harnessed to them. Azya, in the light of the torches, saw only the horse’s croup and two people standing a little further away, who obviously held the horses by the bridle. (...) Lyusnya bent down and, holding Azya’s hips with both hands to guide his body, shouted to the people holding the horses:

- Touch it! Slowly! And at once!

The horses jerked - the ropes, straining, pulled Azya by the legs. His body crawled along the ground and in the blink of an eye found itself on a splintered point. At that very moment the tip entered him, and something terrible began, something contrary to nature and human feelings. The unfortunate man's bones moved apart, his body began to be torn in half, an indescribable, terrible pain, almost bordering on monstrous pleasure, pierced his entire being. The stake sank deeper and deeper. (...) They quickly unharnessed the horses, after which they lifted the stake, lowered its thick end into a pre-prepared hole and began to cover it with earth. Tugai Beevich looked at these actions from above. He was conscious. This terrible type of execution was all the more terrible because the victims, impaled, sometimes lived up to three days.

Azya's head hung on his chest, his lips moved; he seemed to be chewing, savoring something, slurping; Now he felt incredible, fainting weakness and saw in front of him an endless whitish darkness, which for some unknown reason seemed terrible to him, but in this darkness he distinguished the faces of the sergeant and the dragoons, knew that he was on a stake, that under the weight of his body the tip was piercing deeper and deeper into him ; however, the body began to go numb from the legs upward, and he became more and more insensitive to pain."

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1) The stake ruptures the perineum and passes through the pelvis.

2) Damages the lower part of the urinary system (bladder), and in women, the reproductive organs.

3) Pushed higher, the stake ruptures the mesentery of the small intestine, breaking through the intestines and accumulating food in the abdominal cavity.

4) Deflecting towards the front of the spine in the lumbar region, the stake “slides” along its surface reaching the upper part of the abdominal cavity and affects the stomach, liver, and sometimes the pancreas.

6) The stake pierces the skin and comes out.

Word from the expert:

Professor Andrzej Kulig, head of the Institute of Clinical Pathology Centrum Zdrowia Matki Polki in Lodz, emphasizes that this diagram/illustration showing the agony of impalement gives only an approximate picture of the mutilation. The extent of organ damage during this brutal execution in to a greater extent depends on whether the stake passes through the central part of the body, or whether as a result of the work of the executioners its course has changed, deviating forward or sideways. In this case, only part of the internal organs is affected and the abdominal cavity is pierced. The stake, driven in according to all the canons of “art,” reached the chest and caused extensive damage to the heart, major blood vessels, and rupture of the diaphragm. Professor Kulig also emphasizes that the various executions retold in different historical sources and literature are greatly exaggerated. Those executed died quite quickly, either due to an immediate infection of the body (sepsis), or from numerous damage to internal organs and bleeding. Snippet source:

Be that as it may, even if Saint Stephen did not impale thousands of times, even if it was not the boyars, but only the Turks - but he impaled them? Not a bad start to become known folk hero and later be canonized!

Truly, great are the miracles of Stephen the Great!

There is no need to worry about the Moldovan people, who have such “patrons”!

However, you don’t have to worry about Russian Orthodox Christians either, as long as they are protected by saints like Nicholas the Bloody.

A little more information.
Impalement.

The essence of this execution was that a person was laid on his stomach, one sat on him to prevent him from moving, the other held him by the neck. A stake was inserted into the person's anus, which was then driven in with a mallet; then they drove a stake into the ground. Sometimes a person was simply lowered onto a stake fixed from below, having first smeared the anus with fat. Among African tribes, impalement is still common today. Pictures often show the tip of the stake coming out of the mouth of the executed person.

However, in practice, this was extremely rare. The weight of the body forced the stake to go deeper and deeper, and, most often, it came out under the armpit or between the ribs.

Depending on the angle at which the tip was inserted and the convulsions of the executed person, the stake could also come out through the stomach.

This type of execution was very common in Eastern Europe. The Polish gentry dealt with undesirable Ukrainian Cossacks in this way and vice versa. In Russia, when it was under the Tatar-Mongol yoke, and in later times - under Ivan the Terrible, Peter I and even in the enlightened 18th century under Empress Elizabeth, this execution was also popular.

According to the testimony of Peter I's contemporaries, in particular the Austrian envoy Player, this was the way he dealt with Russian Emperor with Stepan Glebov, the lover of his wife Evdokia, exiled to a monastery. On March 15, 1718, exhausted by torture, Glebov was brought to Red Square, filled with crowds of people. Three o'clock in the afternoon. Thirty degree frost. Peter arrived in a heated carriage and stopped not far from the place of execution. Nearby stood a cart on which the disgraced Evdokia was sitting. She was guarded by two soldiers, whose duties also included the following: they had to hold the former empress by the head and not let her close her eyes. In the middle of the platform there was a stake sticking out, on which they sat Glebov, stripped naked... Here it is necessary to give some explanations regarding the features of this hellish invention.

The stakes had several modifications: they could be of different thicknesses, smooth or unplaned, with splinters, and also have a pointed or, on the contrary, blunt end. A sharp, smooth and thin stake, entering the anus, could pierce a person’s insides within a few seconds and, reaching the heart, end his suffering. But this process could be stretched out over long minutes and even hours. This result was achieved using the so-called “Persian stake,” which differed from the usual one in that on both sides of it two neat columns of thin planks were installed, the top of which were almost at the level of the tip of the stake. Next to the stake stood a smoothly planed pillar. The condemned man was placed with his back to the post, his hands were pulled back and they were tied tightly. Then he was impaled, or rather, on planks. In this case, the stake entered shallowly, but the depth of further penetration was regulated by gradually reducing the height of the support posts. The executioners made sure that the stake, when entering the body, did not affect vital centers. Thus, the execution could continue for quite a long time. There is nothing to say about how wildly the man screamed with his insides being torn apart. The crowd responded with a roar of delight.

Glebov was put on an unplaned “Persian stake”. To prevent him from dying from frostbite, they put a fur coat, a hat and boots on him - according to Peter’s personal instructions. Glebov suffered for fifteen hours, and died only at six o’clock in the morning the next day.

Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes - Vlad the Kolovnik, Vlad the Impaler, Vlad the Impaler) and Vlad Dracula. He received the nickname “Tepesh” (“Impeller”, from the Roman teapa [tsyape] - “stake”) for his cruelty in dealing with enemies and subjects, whom he impaled.

Many stakes with people suspended on them were given various geometric shapes, born from the imagination of Tepes. There were various nuances of executions: one stake was driven through the anus, while Tepes specially ensured that the end of the stake was in no case too sharp - profuse hemorrhage could end the torment of the executed person too soon. The ruler preferred that the torment of the executed person last at least a few days, and he succeeded in this record. Others had stakes driven through their mouths and into their throats, leaving them hanging upside down. Still others hung, pierced through the navel, while others were pierced through the heart.

On his instructions, the victims were impaled on a thick stake, the top of which was rounded and oiled. The stake was inserted into the vagina (the victim died almost within a few minutes from excessive blood loss) or anus (death occurred from a rupture of the rectum and developing peritonitis, the person died within several days in terrible agony) to a depth of several tens of centimeters, then the stake was installed vertically. The victim, under the influence of the weight of his body, slowly slid down the stake, and death sometimes occurred only after a few days, since the rounded stake did not pierce the vital organs, but only went deeper into the body. In some cases, a horizontal crossbar was installed on the stake, which prevented the body from sliding too low and ensured that the stake did not reach the heart and other important organs.

In this case, death from loss of blood did not occur very soon. The usual execution was also very painful, and the victims writhed on the stake for several hours.

Tepes sought to compare the height of the stakes with the social rank of those executed - the boyars were impaled higher than the commoners, so by the forests of those impaled one could judge social status executed.

There is a known fact about his successful attempt to stop the Turkish Khan, whose army was moving towards his possessions and outnumbered his army 10 times. To intimidate enemies, gr. Dracula ordered to stab the entire field of the future battle with stakes, on which he placed a couple of hundred captured Turks and a couple of thousand of his subjects. The Turkish Khan and his entire army were overcome with horror at the sight of a whole field of screaming half-dead dolls. The soldiers were shaking at the thought that they might also be hanging on the stakes for several days. Khan decided to retreat.

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Executions have been carried out in Rus' for a long time, in a sophisticated and painful manner. Historians to this day have not come to a consensus about the reasons for the emergence of the death penalty.

Some are inclined towards the version of the continuation of the custom of blood feud, others prefer the Byzantine influence. How did they deal with those who broke the law in Rus'?

Drowning

This type of execution was very common in Kievan Rus. It was usually used in cases where it was necessary to deal with a large number criminals. But there were also isolated cases. So, for example, Kyiv prince Rostislav once became angry with Gregory the Wonderworker. He ordered to tie the hands of the disobedient man, throw a rope noose around his neck, at the other end of which they fastened a heavy stone, and throw him into the water. Executed by drowning Ancient Rus' and apostates, that is, Christians. They were sewn into a bag and thrown into the water. Usually such executions took place after battles, during which many prisoners appeared. Execution by drowning, in contrast to execution by burning, was considered the most shameful for Christians. It is interesting that centuries later the Bolsheviks, during Civil War They used drowning as reprisal against the families of the “bourgeois”, while the condemned were tied with their hands and thrown into the water.

Burning

Since the 13th century, this type of execution was usually applied to those who violated church laws - for blasphemy against God, for unpalatable sermons, for witchcraft. She was especially loved by Ivan the Terrible, who, by the way, was very inventive in his methods of execution. For example, he came up with the idea of ​​sewing up guilty people in bearskins and giving them to be torn to pieces by dogs or skinning a living person. In the era of Peter, execution by burning was used against counterfeiters. By the way, they were punished in another way - molten lead or tin was poured into their mouths.

Burying

Burying alive in the ground was usually used for husband murderers. Most often, a woman was buried up to her throat, less often - only up to her chest. Such a scene is excellently described by Tolstoy in his novel Peter the Great. Usually the place for execution was a crowded place - the central square or city market. A sentry was posted next to the still-living executed criminal, who stopped any attempts to show compassion or give the woman water or some bread. However, it was not forbidden to express one’s contempt or hatred for the criminal - spitting on the head or even kicking it. Those who wished could also give alms for a coffin and church candles. Typically, painful death occurred within 3–4 days, but history records a case when a certain Euphrosyne, buried on August 21, died only on September 22.

Quartering

During quartering, the condemned were cut off their legs, then their arms, and only then their heads. This is how, for example, Stepan Razin was executed. It was planned to take the life of Emelyan Pugachev in the same way, but they first cut off his head and then deprived him of his limbs. From the examples given, it is easy to guess that this type of execution was used for insulting the king, for an attempt on his life, for treason and imposture. It is worth noting that, unlike the Central European, for example the Parisian, crowd, which perceived the execution as a spectacle and dismantled the gallows for souvenirs, the Russian people treated the condemned with compassion and mercy. So, during the execution of Razin, there was deathly silence in the square, broken only by rare female sobs. At the end of the procedure, people usually left in silence.

Boiling

Boiling in oil, water or wine was especially popular in Rus' during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. The condemned person was placed in a cauldron filled with liquid. The hands were threaded into special rings built into the cauldron. Then the cauldron was put on the fire and slowly began to heat up. As a result, the person was boiled alive. This kind of execution was used in Rus' for state traitors. However, this type looks humane in comparison with the execution called “Walking in a circle” - one of the most brutal methods used in Rus'. The condemned man's stomach was ripped open in the area of ​​the intestines, but so that he did not die too quickly from blood loss. Then they removed the intestine, nailed one end to a tree, and forced the executed person to walk in a circle around the tree.

Wheeling

Wheel riding became widespread in the era of Peter. The condemned person was tied to a log St. Andrew's cross fixed to the scaffold. Notches were made on the arms of the cross. The criminal was stretched out on the cross face up in such a way that each of his limbs lay on the rays, and the bends of the limbs were on the notches. The executioner used a quadrangular iron crowbar to strike one blow after another, gradually breaking the bones in the bends of the arms and legs. The work of crying was completed with two or three precise blows to the stomach, with the help of which the spine was broken. The body of the broken criminal was connected so that the heels met the back of the head, placed on a horizontal wheel and left to die in this position. Last time This kind of execution was applied in Rus' to participants in the Pugachev rebellion.

Impalement

Like quartering, impalement was usually used against rebels or traitors to thieves. This is how Zarutsky, an accomplice of Marina Mnishek, was executed in 1614. During the execution, the executioner drove a stake into the person's body with a hammer, then the stake was placed vertically. The executed person gradually began to slide down under the weight of his own body. After a few hours, the stake came out through his chest or neck. Sometimes a crossbar was made on the stake, which stopped the movement of the body, preventing the stake from reaching the heart. This method significantly extended the time of painful death. Until the 18th century, impalement was a very common type of execution among Zaporozhye Cossacks. Smaller stakes were used to punish rapists - they had a stake driven into their hearts, and also against mothers who killed children.

...Such execution, especially popular in the East and Asia, was used everywhere: in Africa, Central America and even in Europe, in the Slavic countries and German Charles V, where the Code of Carolina provided for impalement for mothers guilty of infanticide. In Russia they were impaled until mid-18th century century. In the 19th century, impalement was still practiced in Siam, Persia and Turkey, where such executions were carried out in public in the 1930s.

In the Law of Manu, an ancient code of religious and civil laws Indian society, among the seven types of death penalty, impalement took first place. The Assyrian rulers became famous for impaling rebels and the vanquished. Maspero Ashurnasirpal, mentioned by Gaston, wrote: “I hung the corpses on poles. I planted some on the top of the pole […], and the rest on stakes around the pole.”
The Persians also had a special affection for this type of capital punishment. Xerxes, enraged by the disobedience of King Leonidas, who with three hundred Spartans tried to block the path of the Persian army at Thermopylae, ordered the imprisonment Greek hero on count
Planting techniques around the world were almost identical, with the exception of a few details. Some peoples, including the Assyrians, inserted the stake through the abdomen and removed it through the armpit or mouth, but this practice was not widespread, and in the vast majority of cases the wooden or metal stake was inserted through the anus.
The condemned person was placed on his stomach on the ground. Their legs were spread apart and either secured motionless, or they were held by executioners, their hands were nailed to the ground with spears, or they were tied behind their backs.
In some cases, depending on the diameter of the stake, the anus was first lubricated with oil or cut with a knife. The executioner used both hands to stick the stake as deep as he could, and then drove it deeper with the help of a club.
There was a wide scope for imagination here. Sometimes codes or sentences specified that a stake inserted 50-60 cm into the body must be placed vertically in a previously prepared hole. Death came extremely slowly, and the condemned person experienced indescribable torment. The sophistication of the torture lay in the fact that the execution was carried out by itself and no longer required the intervention of the executioner. The stake penetrated deeper and deeper into the victim under the influence of its weight, until it finally came out of the armpit, chest, back or stomach, depending on the given direction. Sometimes death occurred several days later. Cases when the agony lasted longer three days, there was plenty.
It is known for certain that a stake inserted into the anus and exited from the stomach killed more slowly than one exiting the chest or throat.
Often the stake was driven in with a hammer, piercing right through the body; the executioner’s task in this case was to ensure that it came out of the mouth. In addition to the physical characteristics of the condemned person, the duration of the agony depended on the type of stake.
In some cases, the stake inserted through the anus was well sharpened. Then death came quickly, since it easily ruptured organs, causing internal damage and lethal bleeding. The Russians usually aimed at the heart, which was not always possible. Many historians say that one boyar, impaled by order of Ivan IV, suffered for 2 whole days. The lover of Queen Evdokia, after twelve hours spent on the stake, spat in the face of Peter I.
The Persians, Chinese, Burmese and Siamese preferred a thin stake with a rounded end, which caused minimal damage to internal organs, to a pointed stake. He did not pierce or tear them, but pushed them apart and pushed them back, penetrating deeper. Death remained inevitable, but the execution could last several days, which was very useful from an edifying point of view.
Suleiman Habi was executed on a stake with a rounded tip in 1800 for stabbing General Kleber, commander-in-chief of the French troops in Egypt after Bonaparte sailed to France.
Perhaps this was the only case in history when Western jurisprudence resorted to this method of execution. The French military commission deviated from the military code in favor of the customs of the country. The execution took place in front of a large crowd of people on the esplanade of the Cairo Institute with the participation of the French executioner Barthelemy, for whom this was the first experience of this kind. He coped with the task relatively successfully: before starting to hammer in an iron stake, he considered it necessary to cut the anus with a knife. Suleiman Habi struggled in agony for four hours.
The Chinese method of impalement, as always, was particularly sophisticated: a bamboo tube was hammered into the anus, through which an iron rod heated over a fire was inserted inside.
By the way, this is exactly how they were executed English king Edward II, to pass off his death as natural. A red-hot rod was inserted into his body through a hollow horn. Michelet writes in the History of France: “The corpse was put on public display... There was not a single wound on the body, but people heard screams and from the monarch’s tortured face it was clear that the killers had subjected him to terrible torture.”
In the East, this method of execution was often used for intimidation, impaling prisoners near the walls of a besieged city in order to sow terror in the souls of the townspeople.
The Turkish troops were especially famous for such acts of intimidation. For example, this is exactly how they acted at the walls of Bucharest and Vienna.
As a result of the uprising in Morocco around the middle of the 18th century by the Bukharans, the famous “black guard”, consisting of blacks bought in Sudan, several thousand men, women and children were impaled.
In those same years, in Dahomey, girls were sacrificed to the gods by impaling their vaginas on pointed masts.
In Europe, impalement was popular during the religious wars, especially in Italy. Jean Leger writes that in 1669 in Piedmont, the daughter of a notable, Anne Charbonneau de la Tour, was impaled on a pike at the “causal place”, and a squadron of executioners carried it through the city, chanting that this was their flag, which they would eventually plant in the ground at the intersection expensive
During the war in Spain, Napoleonic troops impaled Spanish patriots, who paid them the same. Goya captured these horrific scenes in prints and drawings.
In 1816, after a riot that ended with the murder of more than 15 thousand people, Sultan Mahmud II liquidated the Janissary corps. Many were beheaded, but most were impaled.
Roland Villein writes that in 1958, the uncle of the Iraqi king, known for his homosexual inclinations, “was impaled so that punishment would overtake him through the place of his sin.”

In the photo: By order people's commissar Red Army soldiers hanged Polish captain Razhnski, 1917.

A new man climbed on top of me. Now something huge, like an elephant’s, was breaking into my body, almost tearing it apart. His penis was thick, it was longer than ever, with every thrust I shuddered in pain, desperately screaming and feeling blows to the cervix. A couple more pushes and I lost consciousness. But not for long, the stream was nearby, so a couple of buckets and I returned to reality. Do we need to remember what happened? I was raped many times. Each time my refusal to confess was followed by another rape. Something else was worse. Despite the pain, the sensations that came from time to time were so strong that I could not resist - I came many times, then my nipples would become tense, my face would turn red, against my will I would begin to move my pelvis in time with the man’s movements, and a hoarse groan of pain would escape from my throat and pleasure. At these moments, I heard men’s laughter and applause, humiliating me and making me feel like a whore. Again and again this feeling of shame and powerlessness, horror for one’s own body, for one’s feelings. Finally they untied me, it was already beginning to turn gray, they dragged me to the stream, washed me, then threw me into a barn in the village on soft hay, rubbed my body with vodka, gave me a strong broth, then tied my hands to pegs driven into the ground, so that I could toss and turn, but I couldn’t bring my arms to my body. A blanket was thrown over the naked body. They poured a decoction of herbs into my mouth, a pleasant warmth passed through my exhausted body, the pain slowly disappeared, this solicitude scared me terribly, I understood that they wanted to prepare me for the next torture. Apparently something was mixed into the broth, because I soon forgot.

In the morning the door opened, several soldiers came in, they untied me, helped me up, it hurt between my legs, so I walked with my legs wide apart. I was again brought before the Duke. He looked at me carefully and asked, “Aren’t you tired? I’m giving you one last chance. While your body is not yet irreparably crippled.” I shook my head negatively. He smiled sadly - “well, as you know. It turns out that your stupidity turned out to be stronger. These 2 days I tried to take you off the chopping block. Well, if you want...” I was pushed forward.

With my hands tied behind my back, I stood under an oak branch, the executioner tightly tied my breasts with a terribly thin rope several times at the very base. The rope tightened and I hung. My whole body shuddered from convulsions, I hung with my head thrown back and heart-rendingly screaming from unbearable pain, while my breasts, unnaturally elongated under the weight of my body, were lifted up. My strong breasts turned purple, blood was oozing from my nipples, strangely, I no longer felt them, only a slight tingling sensation, the pain moved to the base of my breasts. I continued to hang, because of the wild pain I could not control myself and wet myself again. My lips, which I was biting convulsively, were swollen and a trickle of blood was oozing down my chin. I almost lost consciousness when suddenly my heels touched the ground. They gave me a few minutes to rest. All this time I was asked to answer. Then they lifted my breasts again. While I was twisting in the air, the executioners set up the brazier and fanned the fire again. One of those interrogating me came forward and said, “So girl, the game is over before you are mutilated, but if you remain silent... Do you want to ever experience sensual pleasures? So, if you don’t speak up, you will lose this opportunity. Now we'll burn your clitoris, okay?" Without answering, I watched, eyes wide with horror, as the executioner took out red-hot tongs and approached me. They lowered me to the ground and spread my legs as far apart as possible. The forceps were slowly brought to my groin. “Well? Have you thought about it? Now is the last opportunity to change your mind. Speak up, don’t be a fool.” I bit my lips and suddenly a wave of wild pain pierced my body, but I did not have time to fully experience it, falling into darkness.

I came to my senses already in the barn. It’s strange, but I couldn’t feel the middle of my body; looking down, I saw a bandage. Seeing that I had woken up, two people came up to me - “Okay, girl. You can rest. We were already afraid that you were dead. You lay like that almost the whole day.” The infusion and wine were again poured into my mouth. I forgot.

In the morning they took me out to the oak tree again.

“Listen, creature, I’m tired of you,” said Sag, “admit it, I don’t have time to endure your nonsense anymore, are you going to talk?”

I swore dirty.

The executioners tied my hands behind my back and threaded a rope through them. She began to strain, twisting my arms. A second and I was hanging by my outstretched arms. A terrible pain pierced my shoulders. I screamed.

The executioner calmly hung a large stone at my ankles, a crunch was heard, and my arms twisted even more. I groaned. The screams were so loud that they echoed throughout the area. My whole body was covered in sweat, glistening in the sun. I continued to moan. The executioner hung the second stone at his feet.

Nevaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa It felt like my body was being torn apart. Gasping, I moaned - “please stop, have mercy, please!”

"Speak up, bitch! Where are your accomplices? Where? Where?"

“I can’t tell you,” I heard my answer as if from the outside, understanding that this meant: even more pain! My body, stretched to the limit, was waiting for the next torture. The three executioners took wooden sticks. After the Duke's sign, they began to beat me all over my body - on my kidneys, tight buttocks, breasts, flat stomach, back. I was spinning around like crazy and screaming and screaming. After 10 blows I lost consciousness. They threw a bucket of water in my face, I came to my senses and the beating continued. My suffering was endless. The combination of racking and caning was terrible. The pain was driving me crazy. She was stronger than I could have imagined. I couldn't control myself anymore and wet myself again. The torturers just laughed and after a short break they continued the torture. Again and again the blows from the sticks broke my will and my body. I lost consciousness again, they quickly brought me back to my senses and struck me again. Torture that lasted for 2 hours!!! At the end of it I was completely gutted. I lost consciousness 12 times before the torturers decided to stop. They untied me and threw me into the barn. They treated me again so that I could gain strength for the next torment.

In the morning they took me out to the oak tree. Sag patted me on the cheek and said, “Yes, you are more stubborn than I thought. However, I found new way get you talking. You can withstand the pain yourself, but what if you look at the suffering of others?" He pointed with his hand. I looked and couldn’t believe my eyes - my best friend Veronica was standing there. She was naked. I knew that she was pregnant and now I saw her big belly and breasts. Despite this, they tied her to a tree in an embrace and beat her with rods, and then they put her on a bench and threw a noose around her neck. They pulled a rope, Veronica stood on her toes and wheezed, the noose squeezed her throat.

Having heard the words addressed to Veronica - “her depends on the recognition of this own life, your life and your unborn child,” I made a sign that I would give up. I told him what I knew about our people in the city.

They brought me to the city and threw me into a cell in the citadel. When they took me there, the soldiers laughed, “Well, you’re finally in the royal castle where you were so eager.” For several days I did not know what was happening. They fed me well, bandaged my wounds and burns, and gave me healing infusions. I understood that the future would be scary, especially because they were watching me so that nothing happened to me. One evening the Duke came down to the cell.

"You're out of luck, girl. Of those you named, only three were caught, the rest escaped. And of yours, about 20 people were caught during all this time. There are a lot of corpses - and who needs them? The king is furious. Your gangs are sitting in Black Forest and they are robbing rich castles and carts, but it is impossible to dislodge them, they are hiding in the cities. In general, you understand, he doesn’t even want to hear of you being pardoned. Tomorrow you, all 4, will be imprisoned. He wants it to be an exemplary execution. so she will be beaten. Goodbye girl. It’s a pity that you were not on our side.” He left. I looked out the window, there was sunset. And I only had this night to live.

In the morning I was taken out of the cell.

Me and my three best friends crimes committed should have been impaled. A huge crowd had gathered in the main square of the city; in the most convenient place there was a platform, where a group of courtiers, still pale from the fear they had experienced, huddled together. They surrounded the gilded chair where Dthir, our king, lounged, enjoying every moment of his upcoming execution. In the center of the square, a high wooden platform was built, in the middle of which four sharpened aspen stakes were installed in a row. By order of the king, all convicts were smartly dressed, in all white. I was wearing a white blouse tied at the waist, white stockings, white high-heeled sandals and skimpy white panties. In this form we were taken to the square and we climbed onto the platform.

Here, in full view, we were forced to take off our panties and placed them on supports, pressing our pubes against the surface of the stakes. Each stake had a pair of small footrests; a lever could move them up and down along special grooves. They put us on these steps. Using a lever, they were raised slightly up so that the tip of the stake was approximately at the level of our perineum. The executioner's assistants, supporting me by the hips, helped me insert the tip of the stake into my vagina, and then lowered the footrests a little so that the stake went deep enough inside.

We were lightly impaled, a rope was tied under our arms so that we could slow down the impaling, after which the verdict was read out to all those present. After which the executioner approached each of us in turn, asking if she was ready for execution and, having received an affirmative answer, threw back the footrests. The last thing he asked me was “are you ready.” After hesitating a little, I nodded my head and, closing my eyes, prepared for a terrible death. The footrests instantly disappeared from under my feet and I sat down on the stake with all my weight...

I felt something filling my vagina, then a familiar feeling of pain and pleasure appeared, as during an act of love. The feeling of distension in the vagina intensified, the rough surface of the sharpened stake irritated the clitoris, I became more and more excited, my breasts became engorged, my nipples stood erect, lubricant flowed down the surface of the stake, the unexpected sensations that came were so strong that I came: a hoarse breath escaped through my rapid breathing. a groan of pleasure, the chest turned red, the body seemed glossy with sweat. But the tearing of the vagina became more and more intense, something contrary to human nature began, my body seemed to be torn into two halves and suddenly a terrible, incomparable pain, which seemed impossible to exist in the world, which seemed impossible to endure alive, pain, felt like an unprecedented orgasm, something that a woman seemed never to have experienced, the greatest pleasure pierced my body. A terrible, piercing, hoarse cry of pain and happiness, not similar to a human, burst from his throat. The stake moved even further, my labia cracked, the tip pierced my uterus, I screamed again, even stronger, probably my scream was heard throughout the city, new wave pain and pleasure swept through the body, which all arched, the cry became even more hoarse, like a scream. Out of the corner of my foggy consciousness, I heard the executioner’s words “And she croaked,” they lowered me a little lower, and I repeated my terrible cry. Suddenly the rope was released, my body descended even lower and a crossbar nailed perpendicular to the stake rested on my crotch. She did not let me go lower and quickly die, pierced by a stake. I writhed on the stake for several more hours; it seemed like a fire had been lit inside my womb. But despite everything, I continued to see my friends - before the execution, my eyelids were cut off, so that I could not close my eyes. My girlfriends also wriggled on thick aspen stakes, I heard their screams, full of pain and pleasure. Then my vision began to darken and a blissful unconsciousness set in...

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How beautifully I, already dead, sat on a stake with my head resting on my chest. And it was not for nothing that they dressed us all in white - blood flowed from the crotch onto the stake and onto my legs covered in white stockings and dripped onto the boardwalk from the toes of my sandals. Blood was also dripping from my mouth and nose, right onto my snow-white blouse...