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"The hangman bound her hands, cut her hair and placed her

on a ladder. He threw alcohol over her head and set fire to it

so as to burn her hair. He tied her hands behind her back

and pulled her up to the ceiling. He left her there three to

four hours, while the torturer went to breakfast.

On his return, he attached very heavy weights on her body

and again drew her up to the ceiling.Then he squeezed

her thumbs and big toes in a vise, and he trussed her arms

with a stick, and in this position kept her hanging about a

quarter of an hour.

Then he whipped her with a rawhide whip. Once again he placed her thumbs and big toes in the vise and left her in this
agony on the torture stool from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., while the hangman and the court officials went out to get a bite to
eat. In the afternoon a functionary came who disapproved this pitiless procedure. But then they whipped her again in a
frightful manner. This concluded the first day of torture."

This is a partial list of fees and expenses made up by the courts in 1757 that would be paid

for various services:

Terrorizing and showing the instruments of torture: 6 shillings

Arranging and crushing the thumb: 12 shillings

Burning with a hot iron: 6 shillings

Cutting out the tongue and burning the mouth with a red-hot iron: 18 shillings

For cutting off a hand or several fingers: 6 shillings

For nailing to the gallows a cut-off tongue or chopped off hand: 8 shillings