What Alaina Urquhart has said about Torture in the Middle Ages

1 quote · 1 episode · May 14, 2026

Alaina Urquhart, Co-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels, has been quoted on Torture in the Middle Ages once in 1 episode of Morbid, most recently on May 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Urquhart explained the heretic's fork symbolically forced those who spoke against the church to look up toward heaven.

    “the whole thing was very poetic because it's like you spoke out against the church. So now you have to look up at your God that you don't believe in”

    Morbid: Episode Revisit: Torture (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 52:00

Episodes

  • Episode Revisit: Torture

    Morbid · May 14, 2026 · 1 h 21 min

    Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart revisit their early episode on historical torture devices, from the brazen bull and iron maiden to flaying.

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