Wooden horse (device)

A wooden horse, Chevalet (as it was called in Spain), Spanish donkey or cavalletto squarciapalle is a torture device, of which there exist two variations; both inflict pain by using the subject's own weight by keeping the legs open, tied with ropes from above, while lowering down the subject.

[2] The first variation of the wooden horse is a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward, mounted on a sawhorse-like support.

He acknowledged his fault, saying that he had well deserved punishment, and came of his own accord to confess, that evening or the next day," and that another man "acted at the fort as such a glutton, that he was put on the Chevalet, on which he was ruptured.

The History Channel documentary Eighty Acres of Hell describes a torture device, "the mule", on which Confederate prisoners were forced to ride until they passed out; many were crippled for life.

[7] Media related to Spanish donkey at Wikimedia Commons | |-[Film clip of wooden horse torture] [1]