Salvation Ch. 17 Cruel Games
At the end of the first floor corridor at St Saviour’s, a staircase leads to a second, but narrower corridor. Facing south, it has the benefit of sunlight illuminating the walls. Here, several paintings hang, each seemingly low for the adults, but perfectly placed for the children to gaze at them as they pass. The paintings are German in origin and depict scenes of the time when Zealots commonly tortured peasants to learn of witches and any other ungodly activities. Dressed as priests and monks they sought out mainly the young girls of the villages to torture and degrade. The paintings showed young girls shackled to stout wooden frames, pincers roughly pulling at their breasts, un-greased dildos being forced into their anuses, and their bottoms and thighs being sadistically whipped. If the children at St …