2. Brazen Bull
There is a story about a bronze worker in old Greece called Perillos who created this awful thing as an execution method for the worst criminals. It was a bull made of bronze, with a door for a person to come inside. Then executors lit a fire and boiled and seared the person inside. A Sicilian King Phalaris, who ordered this thing, was satisfied with the device, in particular with the sound the person inside created. Thanks to some special tubes and horns, cries and groans sounded like a bull’s roar. The legend says that after the bull was opened, the prisoner’s bones were shiny and white as diamonds, so Phalaris used to make a necklace from them. However, another legend says that Perillos died in this bull, where tyrant Phalaris closed him. And now, let’s see the number one on our list of most painful cruel horrific deaths and execution methods in history.
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