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Examples
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Did the Spaniards convince the Maya people to add something sweeter while they had them on the garrucha, perhaps when they were flogging the poor Indians, or pouring burning wax on their skin?
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The garrucha or strappado and the garrotes, combined with the water-torture and the rack, represented the survival of the fittest in the natural selection of torments concerning which the Holy Office in Italy and Spain had such a vast experience.
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The three most common methods were the garrucha, similar to the strappado; the toca, or ordeal of water; and the potro, a form of the rack.
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Llorente describes that prisoners spent the entire trial in anxious expectation of the Torture by garrucha
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