In this case the heretics were burned in effigy of a bull to Phalaris, tyrant of Agrakas, who died in the year 554 BC The screams and cries of the victims went through the mouth of the bull, making it appear that the figure bellowed. The bull of Phalaris was present in numerous torture chambers of the Inquisition of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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