How was the stake executed in ancient Europe?

Burning at stake also existed in ancient China, but it was far less colorful than in Europe. Of course, in code of hammurabi, the earliest legal document of mankind, the stake is listed as one of the three major punishments. Therefore, wooden stakes are not necessarily invented by Europeans. In ancient India, the stake was also popular. In Europe, ancient Greece had a bet. Since then, Europeans have shown rich imagination on wooden stakes, especially in the Middle Ages, the means of wooden stakes were more spectacular, and even there were detailed regulations on the materials used for wooden stakes and the placement of wooden stakes. There is a kind of fire in which unbound prisoners are locked in cages and thrown into the fire in order to enjoy the screaming and jumping of prisoners; In ancient Greece, prisoners were also lit with asphalt; The Romans once burned a large number of Christians with the stake, and later the stake became one of the favorite means of Christians. Inquisition usually places firewood piles around prisoners, some up to the knees and some up to the hips. The woodpile should not be too high, which is convenient for onlookers. Expand the firewood pile, and you can hold shares collectively. However, this method sometimes makes it impossible for prisoners to be burned to death because of the strong wind. Therefore, another way is to pile the firewood as high as people and leave a passage for people to enter. When the prisoner enters, he will block the passage with firewood. This method can ensure foolproof, but the disadvantage is that onlookers can't see the dying struggle. There is also a special cabin. After the prisoner entered, he was stuffed with wood and grass and lit around at the same time. The other is that prisoners stand directly on high woodpiles. The ever-changing nature of the stake lies in its size. Have a plenty of after burning, take out a part of the wood and turn it into a small fire. That's why there are rules for firewood. Joan of Arc, the French heroine, got this treatment. The British tied Joan of Arc to a very high position. At first, Joan's clothes were burned and firewood was removed. The fire decreased so that onlookers could see Joan's genitals from below, and then it increased again. Some fires strangle prisoners before they are ignited, some execute prisoners at the same time, some stun prisoners, but more often they are burned alive. Different ways are aimed at different degrees of crime. Others were buried in pits or ditches. The king of France once burned more than 600 people in a ditch. Voltaire, a French thinker, estimated that during the 300 years when heresy was severely suppressed in the Middle Ages, more than 654.38 million people in Europe were burned at the stake. France temporarily cancelled its equity in 1808, but resumed it in 18 14 and completely banned it in 1820. Other European countries also abolished wooden stakes almost at this time. China abolished wooden stakes after the Han Dynasty. The stake in the Northern and Southern Dynasties refers to the burning of corpses.