It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...

Medieval Crime Museum has many terrifying torture devices on display, including a stigma whistle designed to discipline poor performers. This is 'the stigma flute'. When you play the following movie, ...

I was visiting Amsterdam's Torture Museum the other day - as you do, when it's raining and you've reached saturation point with sex, drugs and the little men selling tulips and asking for money to ...

The popular practice of mindfulness is today associated mostly with Eastern religions, particularly Buddhism. One influential medieval form of meditation was based on music derived from Christian ...