Punishment according to the manner of the ancient Scythians

Some time ago a man at Carnor, about two leagues from Carlstadt in Transylvania, who had been a few months married to a young woman of eighteen, of whom he was exceeding jealous, having taken some exceptions to her conduct, locked himself up one evening with her and her mother; he then stripped his wife, and having fastened her to the wall with wooden pegs, he cut off her ears, nose, and two breasts, and drove a stake into her belly. He then cut open her side with a knife, and not finding her heart, which he wanted, opened her other side, from which he took it out.

He then loosened the poor wretch, laid her on the ground, to which he fastened her with three pegs, and afterwards laid himself down by the dead body; and, as if the being satiated with barbarity produced the same effects with drunkenness, he fell into so profound a sleep, that his mother-in-law, who expected the same fate, easily opened the doors, and escaped into the neighbourhood, where she gave an account of the shocking scene she had been witness to.

Upon this, proper persons were dispatched, who seized him while still asleep,

The punishment inflicted on him was, according to the manner of the ancient Scythians, proportioned to so unheard of a crime.

The wretch was conducted on foot to the gallows, where he was stript; after which his nose, ears, and the flesh of his breast were torn off with hot pincers. He was to have had his eyes plucked out, but this was omitted, because from a schismatic he became a Catholic. He was then fastened to the tail of his own horse, and dragged three times round the gallows; after which his two hands were cut off, one after another, by slow and deliberate strokes. His head was then cleaved; and his breast being opened, his heart taken out, and cut into several pieces. At last his limbs were nailed to the gallows, so low, that the dogs and wild animals might reach them; and they were in fact devoured before night.

This wretch bore those severe torments with incredible firmness and resolution.

On the same day a neighbour of this inhuman wretch was taken up for cutting off his wife's breast, from a like principle of jealousy.