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Judas cradle in Italian

Judas cradle in Italian

culla di Giuda
noun
A purported torture device invented in Spain in the 16th century by the Spanish Inquisition by which the suspended victim’s orifice, usually the anus, was slowly impaled on and stretched by the pyramidal tip of the seat.
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