Note 193 — Chapter V · THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (continued 2)

[In the tormento de toca, a gauze bag was placed in the throat and water poured in it, forcing the gauze gradually down the œsophagus into the stomach. Other torments were the gradual pouring of water drop by drop on one spot of the body, and the great swinging pendulum, or péndola, with the knife affixed, as described in Poe’s haunting story.]