<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6af87b7e-a838-4962-9d51-e5294b42494f/9CC02D62-B886-467C-BF5D-CF81C42F3473/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/" href="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.tutztutz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/"><P><STRONG><IMG hspace="3" align="absmiddle" alt="" src="http://oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top1.gif" /> Impalement: <SPAN id="IL_AD8" class="IL_AD">A sharp</SPAN> pole is pushed, bottom upwards, through the <SPAN id="IL_AD12" class="IL_AD">victim</SPAN>’s body</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tutztutz.com/img/B9BF0A82-D147-4C9A-A400-B0DAB1E2C67F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/"><P>If you were <YOONO-HIGHLIGHT class="yoono-link-hover yoono-link-active-link" keywords="Vlad the Impaler">Vlad the Impaler</YOONO-HIGHLIGHT> (more commonly known as <YOONO-HIGHLIGHT class="yoono-link-hover yoono-link-active-link" keywords="Dracula">Dracula</YOONO-HIGHLIGHT>) of 15th century Romania, you simply impaled your victims by forcing them to sit on a sharp and thick pole. <SPAN id="IL_AD7" class="IL_AD">The pole</SPAN> was then raised upright and the victim was left to slide further down the pole by his or her own weight.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/"><STRONG><IMG hspace="3" align="absmiddle" alt="" src="http://oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top2.gif" /> <YOONO-HIGHLIGHT class="yoono-link-hover yoono-link-active-link" keywords="Judas Cradle">Judas Cradle</YOONO-HIGHLIGHT>: The victim’s orifice is painfully stretched, flesh ripped</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tutztutz.com/img/47448263-4619-4E68-8D04-9EE08865304A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.tutztutz.com/img/E133C59A-A532-4C25-9AD1-B7B9D9A46B52" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tutztutz.com/2009/07/10-most-frightening-torture-techniques-from-the-middle-ages/"><STRONG><IMG hspace="3" align="absmiddle" alt="" src="http://oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top10.gif" /> The Knee <SPAN id="IL_AD6" class="IL_AD">Splitter</SPAN>: Severs the knees and other limbs</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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