Chinese water torture

The Chinese water torture is a method which is rumored that it was suitable to torture people. In this method, the victim must remain bound under cold dripping water, which should cause a pain. The effectiveness of this method has not been established. The Chinese water torture described in belletristic literature, eg by the author Karl May as a "drip torture."

The method was described by Hippolytus de Marsiliis (1450-1529), eponymous for the term " Chinese water torture " would be at least in English, the performance of " Chinese Water Torture Cell" of Entfesslungskünstlers Harry Houdini, in which he repeatedly tied upside down in a water-filled glass tank has been locked.

At the memorial Berlin- Hohenschonhausen an exhibit of apparatus for Chinese water torture is on display, the details of a former inmate was set up following. The actual existence and use of such a device in the detention center is doubtful.