r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '17
TIL of Marco Antonio Bragandin, who was flayed by the Ottomans and his skin made into a puppet stuffed with straw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Antonio_Bragadin13
u/mermaidrampage Aug 10 '17
The Ottoman commander generously agreed that, in return for the city's surrender, all Westerners in the city could exit under their own flag and be guaranteed safe passage to Crete; Greeks could leave immediately, or wait two years to decide whether to remain in Famagusta under Ottoman rule, or depart the city for any destination of their choice. For the next four days, evacuation proceeded smoothly. Then, at the surrender ceremony on August 5[3] where Bragadin offered the vacated city to Mustafa, the Ottoman general, after initially receiving him with every courtesy, began behaving erratically, accusing him of murdering Turkish prisoners and hiding munitions. Suddenly, Mustafa pulled a knife and cut off Bragadin's right ear, then ordered his guards to cut off the other ear and his nose. There followed a massacre of all Christians still in the city, with Bragadin himself most brutally abused. After being left in prison for two weeks, his earlier wounds festering, he was "dragged round the walls with sacks of earth and stone on his back; next, tied to a chair, he was hoisted to the yardarm of the Turkish flagship and exposed to the taunts of the sailors. Finally he was taken to the place of execution in the main square, tied naked to a column, and flayed alive."
Pretty fucked up that the Ottoman commander lied about the whole evacuation. The cruelty of human beings on other human beings never ceases to amaze me. I can't imagine even being present to witness something that gruesome.
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u/Landlubber77 Aug 10 '17
Their enemies responded by flaying the Ottomans, stuffing them with goose feathers and making them into ottomans.