15 Gruesome Torture Devices You Won't Believe Actually Existed

7. The Lead Sprinkler

This sprinkler was usually filled with a variety of painful liquids such as boiling water, oil, tar or molten lead and was used to gain a confession out of witches and criminals and was used on the particularly sensitive areas of the body such as the eyes and the genitals. Sometimes, depending on how big a deal you were in the criminal world, the executioner would pour molten silver into your eyes so that you died a very slow and painful death.