The term "Chinese water torture" may have arisen from Harry Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell together with the Fu Manchu stories of Sax Rohmer that were popular in the 1930s. Hippolytus de Marsiliis is credited with the invention of a form of water torture. Having observed how drops of water falling one by one on a stone gradually created a hollow, he applied the method to the human body.
Chinese Water torture is when a person is locked up
to where the victim cannot move. Then cold or warm water is slowly dripped on
to a small area of the body; usually the forehead, the forehead was found to be
the most suitable point for this form of torture because of its sensitivity (One
drop at a time usually 1 drop after every 6-14 seconds). It eventually drives
the victim crazy, because they can't use their hands to wipe off the water or
warm up their face from the cold water after long duration's were gradually
driven frantic as a perceived hollow would form in the center of the
forehead."
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Urs,
This Kind of Torture is implemented on the antagonist from the novel "Thulasidalam"
ReplyDeletemay be, i dint read that novel..:(
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