Were there any famous executioners?
-What was an executioners job a daily basis?
Executioners were feared but also adored. They lived secret lives and often took their lives. |
Executioners were all adored however they were feared as well. They dealt with blood, which was seemed to be a dangerous thing back then. Every executioner was to know about simple tortures such as Burning, Decapitation by sword, Interment, Dismemberment, breaking on the wheel, Hanging, cutting off ears, amputation, whipping and use of pillory (better known as the stocks). If an execution went wrong, not only did the victim have a slow and painful end to life but it also risked the life of the executioner himself. If the cull was not a clean cut, and the blood was gruesomely spurted out of the body and the kings was not happy the next kill would be the killer and another executioner would step in to fill his position.
In the medieval times executioners were believed to have worn black or brown masks over their faces however, no trace of this myth in any art piece or accounts written by medieval monks |