A torture device used during the Inquisition with the purpose of extrancting confessions from victims. Made of metal, the heating chair had numerous spikes which pierced the skin. The victim was stripped naked and strapped into the chair. A fire built beneath the chair would heat it to intolerable levels, adding to the torture.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...