To: Greg or e who wrote (38641 ) 7/5/2013 2:00:04 AM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (2) | Respond to Interesting time, the religious 30yrs War, here's your first example of the waterboard torture, but more unpleasant than almost concievable by human imagination, and you thought crucifixion was bad? The Christian imagination with all its demons, fear & vile retribution wasn't going to be outdone by the Romans. Where is your God thru all this, micro managing his Hell on earth?The Schwedentrunk en.wikipedia.org They lay the bound servant on the ground, stuck a wooden wedge into his mouth, and poured into his belly a bucket full of foul manure water, which they called a Swedish Drink. S ometimes boiling liquid. Substances such as urine excrement manure sullage were used for this purpose. The torturers then squeezed the distended belly with wooden boards or trampled the victim underfoot. Schwedentrunk torture German Swedish Thirty Years' War mercenaries marauders baggage Schwedentrunk was preserved. The method was immortalized in one of the first widely-read German books, the satirical Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus published by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen edit “ Den Knecht legten sie gebunden auf die Erd, stecketen ihm ein Sperrholz ins Maul, und schütteten ihm einen Melkkübel voll garstig Mistlachenwasser in Leib, das nenneten sie ein Schwedischen Trunk ”
Its English translation is:“ They lay the bound servant on the ground, stuck a wooden wedge into his mouth, and poured into his belly a bucket full of foul manure water, which they called a Swedish Drink. ”
Use of the Schwedentrunk is recorded in the histories of towns throughout Southern Germany funnel urine excrement manure sullage bacterial infection
