Thread: random facts about the inquisition I came across.

“A European was always strangled before being committed to the flames but a native was tied alive to the stake and burnt”

“When a prisoner was condemned to torture, the guards led him into a subterranean apartment, the ‘casa dos tormentos’ , so arranged that his lamentations could not be heard. The pain is inflicted was so excruciating and weakening that it became sometimes necessary to call in +

the doctor in order to consult him whether the prisoners could endure yet further tortures without expiring under them”.

“There were three principal kinds of torture, namely, by the rope by water and by fire. In the first kind which was called ‘corda’ the arms of the prisoner

tied behind with a rope by which he was hoisted by pulley to various heights and suddenly dropped to the ground: this operation lasted for an hour longer according to his strength.

When this torture did not produce the confession the accused was subjected to the trial by water,

a great quantity of which he was compelled to swallow in a recumbent position on a kind of bed which had an iron bar beneath if you is really recalcitrant this was withdrawn and the process is repeated until he yelled with incredible pain.

“But the fire torture was yet more horrible as the soles of this poor wretch’s feet were exposed to flames till he confessed to whatever was desired.”

“During the months of November and December he heard every morning the cries of persons put under torture to elicit confessions. It was so cruel that several persons of both sexes remained cripples for life”

“The Inquisition had its officials not only in Goa but every town of India subject to the sway of Portugal. They were called commissaries, and always furnished the holy office with reports on which persons were made prisoners and conveyed to Goa”

On the Sex trafficking of Indian girls by the Church:
“ The Portuguese, whenever they got a chance, indiscriminately kidnapped began little girls even from nations at peace with them in spite of the prohibition to make slaves of such.”

“They kept them for sometime in concealment and then sold them. In the beginning of the 17th century great numbers of slaves of all nations of India were kept it Goa and the traffic in them was considerable. They were exported to Portugal and all parts of Portuguese dominions.”

Other restrictions placed upon natives including “can’t distribute pan-supari”, “can’t sing or dance, publicly or privately”, “cannot pound flour to fry cakes for wedding banquets”

“can’t wear clothes or jewels on their wedding day”, and so many decrees aimed at divorcing nouveau converts with their native traditions

“wives shall not wash their bodies till after two months from their delivery”

“shall on no occasion invite poor people to their houses and give them dinners for the good of the souls of the deceased” - in other words, church-ordained untouchability

“We command the natives of India and also the Portuguese shall neither in their country-houses, nor gardens, nor palm-groves, nor farms keep the Tulasi plant, in any part whatever, but shall instantly pull it out wherever found.”

see how they attack the very roots of culture?

“The fury of the Inquisition extended to the natives of other religions that were for their supposed sins whipped, banished, condemned to the galleys.”
“On such spiteful and trifling accusations men of property lost it to enrich the Holy Inquisition and were burnt.”

source: THE CALCUTTA REVIEW. VOLUME LXXII. 1881. – THOMAS S. SMITH

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=jaMIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA1

I saved more screenshots from AK Priolkar but not going to post those because every Hindu and ‘cristam novo’ needs to read that book cover to cover. link: https://ia803109.us.archive.org/20/items/GoaInquisitionAnantKakbaPriolkar_201806/Goa%20Inquisition%20Anant%20Kakba%20Priolkar.pdf