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Meaning of cuna de judas




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

cuna de judas
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Instrument of torture used by the Inquisition to make those who fell into its clutches sing. I think some dictatorships have also used it in more recent times. It consists of a pointed wooden pyramid on which the body of the unfortunate was dropped. The idea is attributed to the sixteenth-century Bolognese jurist Ippolito Marsili.

  



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