so i decided to look up the wiki article on iron maidens cause i was like "who the fuck would even use one of these"

Submitted by hollyhoppet at April 19, 2021, 3:00 AM in just_post

turns out they were actually a result of a work of fiction from the 19th century and they never really used iron maidens in the medieval era or honestly any era

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ellynu wrote at April 19, 2021, 9:36 AM

harsh metal critique going on here

flabberghaster wrote at April 19, 2021, 7:02 AM

Yeah, they seem like a wildly impractical implement for their purpose.

twovests wrote at April 20, 2021, 2:35 PM

iirc this is true of a lot of old-timey torture devices