Poena Cullei: Turducken From Hell

What happens when you cram a guy into a bag full of animals?

In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan explore poena cullei, the infamous Roman punishment for parricide. From a condemned prisoner being sealed inside a sack to the eventual addition of snakes, dogs, roosters, and monkeys, we trace how this strange execution evolved across centuries of Roman and European history.

We’ll travel from the legendary days of Tarquin the Proud and the earliest stories surrounding the punishment, through Publicius Malleolus, Augustus, Claudius, Constantine, and Justinian, before following poena cullei into medieval Europe and its eventual disappearance.

And because this is Torture: A Dark History, Kevin and Dan bring their own twisted sense of humor to a punishment that raises one very important question: who looked at a snake, a dog, a rooster, and a monkey and thought, “Yeah, put them all in the bag”?

If you love Roman history, ancient Rome, Roman torture, executions, parricide, Constantine the Great, Justinian, medieval torture, bizarre punishments, dark history, and some of history's strangest methods of execution, this episode is one hell of a bag to climb into.

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