Grimmelshausen

Then they took to removing the flints from pistols and to using them as thumbscrews upon the peasants, torturing the poor fellows as if they had been wanting to burn witches. One of the peasants they had captured, even though he had made no confession at all, was put into the oven and the fire behind him; another one had a rope put around his head and tightened with a press-bar, so that blood spurted out of his mouth, nose, and ears. All in all, everyone invented his own particular way of torturing the peasants, and every peasant had his own particular torment to suffer.