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Medieval Execution, Medieval Executioner, Medieval Era Executioner The hooded figure had arrived in town. What once felt a cozy little hamlet had the cold chill of death in the air. Hush and muttering filled the market square, as the looming figure in the hood lumbered through the crowd. Half celebrity, half disgrace – he was liable a criminal paying off his sentence – but this was ‘the hangman’; a dark deathly figure bringing the brutal force of the law. No one knew the figure behind the hood, not by face, nor by name but death was his feared specialty known throughout the land. ‘The headsman’ some called him, armed with an axe the breadth of a torso or greatsword the near height of a man. Should one be accused of the grandest trespass of treason, a looming hooded figure might get hideously creative with how they dispose of you! Welcome to History on Fleek, today we look at medieval executioners and all their stomach-churning specialties. In today's video we look at The Stomach-Churn
