Ancient punishments are strange, in addition to punishing criminals, but also to obtain useful information from the mouths of the other party, but looking at the historical records of Europe, it is not difficult to find that some tortures are also very cruel, including the same seemingly benevolent punishment, but always make the prisoner feel frightened.
Most of the torture is relatively bloody, but there is a punishment that does not hurt the body in the slightest, and uses the goat's tongue as a torture device, which is not fatal in a short period of time, this punishment is called laughing punishment, the torture process is not bloody, it first appeared in the Han Dynasty, generally for the nobility.
Laughter was widely used in 17th-century Europe, where the subjects were mostly criminals and prisoners of war, during which they would be tied firmly, then smeared with honey or sugar on the center of their feet, and then brought a goat and let the goat lick it with its tongue.
Because the goat's tongue has barbs, when the goat licks the heart of the foot, the prisoner will be extremely itchy, coupled with being bound and unable to move, the prisoner can only keep laughing, and finally be laughed to death.
In fact, laughing as a human physiological response, a short time is beneficial, but a long time to laugh more than enough, will make the brain more likely to get nervous system diseases, and laughter will cause dozens of muscles in the human body to violently tremble, a lot of energy consumption, at this time the muscles can not carry out aerobic breathing, energy can not be replenished, will be due to lack of oxygen and muscle weakness. In addition, long laughs can cause the sphincter to lose control of the bladder, causing incontinence, and even worse, it will cause cardiac arrest or suffocation, which is a very tragic scene.