1.
Upon being locked into this giant, bronze beast, the fires will be lit beneath, heating the metal, and thusly the air inside to
temperatures far too great for the victim to withstand. The effect of this will slowly sear their flesh, suffocate them, and cook
their remains. They can cry all they desire, for the intricate design of the bull's interior will only amplify their pleading cries for
all around to hear, and thus serve as a warning to those others who would choose the victim’s path of crime.

2.
The classical record is vague about trial by ordeal, but, thanks to the writing of the Roman satirist Lucian in the 2nd century BC,
we have a camparatively detailed knowledge of that diabolical engine of torture, Perilaus's Brazen Bull. The inventor Perilaus
constructed a life-size bronze sculpture of a bull with a rear entrance providing access to its belly. Here, hapless
victims were enclosed while a fire lit beneath the creature's belly. By an elaborate system of pipes, cunningly contrived, the
victim's screams issued from the bull's mouth in a form of a gentle lowing. Proudly presenting his invention to the Greek tyrant
Phalaris, Perilaus was taken aback to find himself siezed and put inside. No fitter end could there be for the deviser of such a
diabolical instrument, said Phalaris