Iron maidens are one of the most notorious torture devices out there. But are they real? The answer is no — and yes. The widespread medieval use of iron maidens is an 18th-century myth, bolstered by ...

The iron maiden was a horrible medieval torture device, a casket with spikes on the inside which could be closed slowly, impaling the living person inside. It was awful. It was also not real. It was a ...

What was the iron maiden, and how did the iron maiden work? The medieval torture device, a human-sized sarcophagus filled with spikes, seems almost too gruesome to be true. According to 19th-century ...