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A form of torture presumably used by the [[Chinese]] in the last two [[century|centuries]] for [[execution]].  A wooden box, measuring roughly one meter, is filled to the brim with an assortment of stinging and venomous creatures, such as [[leech]]es, [[centipede|centipedes]], [[scorpion]]s, and [[spider]]s. The [[prisoner]], stripped [[nudity|naked]], was bound hand and foot and secured within the box, his head protruding through a hole at the top so that witnesses could observe his torture.

==References==

Rishard Sair, ''The Book of Torture and Executions'' (1944)