The blade is a device that I had never heard of before. It was a method of torture invented by the Chinese, and apparently it was very effective. If they had a prisoner that they wanted to get to talk or get information out of, they would make tiny cuts on the victim's body until he/she spoke. This type of torture could go on FOREVER because the torturers could just let cuts heal and start all over again, but in most cases prisoners would speak before it got that far. It's weird to think that you could die from something as seemingly minor as a cut, but if you think about it, a thousand cuts would drain a lot of blood!
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http://medieval-castles.org/index.php?blog=5&cat=31&disp=posts&paged=2
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It is intersting cause it just seems so simple, but having a bunch of cuts would really suck.
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