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	Foot roasting: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(foot roasting was easy to apply and effective.
		The prisoner was immobilized on his back and his bare feet were imprisoned in a stocks stocks quick summary:
		The spanish boot was an iron casing for the leg and foot and was used by the spanish inquisition....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/foot_roasting.htm (610 words)

	Articles - Torture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although slowly roasting the soles of the bare feet over hot coals is, perhaps, a bit low-tech, the Russian KGB was certainly not above achieving the same purpose by using the flat, red-hot surface of an everyday clothes iron.
		Though it may seem peculiar, perhaps even fetishistic, that so very many torture devices are intended for application to the foot, this is actually quite a logical development.
		One of the key characteristics of a successful torture is that it can be prolonged almost indefinitely without endangering life, and this can best be achieved by directing the pain as far as physically possible from the brain and vital organs.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Torture (5322 words)

	Torture Article, Torture Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Weights could be added to the legs dislocating those joints as well.
		Other torture methods could included the rack (stretching the victim’s joints to breaking point), the thumbscrew, the boot (crushing the foot and leg), water(massive quantities of water forcibly ingested), and the medieval red-hot pincers, although it was technically against churchpolicy to mutilate a persons body.
		If stronger methods were needed, or death, the person was handed over to the secularauthorities who were not bound by any restrictions.
	www.anoca.org /methods/physical/torture.html (2419 words)

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