Spanish inquisition

The other day, as I was surfing through pictures of medieval torture devices (don't ask), I kept noticing that many such tools were invented by, or at least used in, the Spanish Inquisition.

Spain’s centuries-long witch hunt killed 700 women – in the region. Estimates indicate that roughly 30,000–60,000 people were executed during ...

A victim of the Spanish Inquisition by Arturo Asensio

An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition: the burning of heretics in a market place. Wood engraving by H.D. Linton after Bocourt after T. Robert-Fleury. | Wellcome Collection

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Download this stock image: Spanish Inquisition. Auto-da-fe. Condemned in the scaffold wearing the penitential garment known as Sanbenito. Engraving. 19th century. - P7AWTG from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

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Star Wars. "Welcome. I have been expecting you." - The Spanish Inquisition: "Impossible." --- Monty Python. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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Find out more about the long and bloody history of the Spanish Inquisition, which lasted several hundred years and led to the death or displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.