Alaina Urquhart

Ooh.

A lot of boards.

This was along the same lines.

It's real bad.

So then chains would be attached to the cuff, and the other end of the chains would attach to a wheel.

There was a crank that would then turn said wheel, and this would cause the chains to slowly tighten.

Oh, no.

Now, as this happened, it was pulling your arms and legs and stretching them.

Goodbye.

But not just stretching.

The joints, sockets, ligaments, tendons would all completely snap and crack.

Ugh!

Now, sometimes they would even go way past stretching and just pull the fucking limbs right off your body.

Fuck you!

Now, if they didn't take it that far, the muscles would completely lose the ability to contract, and at some point, this person would be

completely unable to move and likely unable to control basic bodily functions like their bowels.

You know what I mean?

They were just like, I'm not going to totally kill you, but I'm just going to leave you here now.

Because you're going to die anyway, so it's going to be slow or it's going to be relatively quick.

So there were other variations on this method that were common.