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From my own digging into the topic, these punishments were more about shame than physical damage, and they were surprisingly regulated. I ran into this page https://medievalextreme.com/tools-of-pain/ while researching for a history blog, and it helped put things into perspective without turning it into shock content, plus it even draws interesting parallels with how materials and restraints later evolved and influenced buhurt weapons used in historical combat sports. Not every town used the same tools, and some devices existed mostly as a warning symbol rather than something used daily, which kind of changed how I look at medieval justice.