Also known as the torture of fire, it was practiced by placing the defendant on a wooden seat that had an iron grid to support his feet. The practice consisted in approaching the soles of the bare feet of the offender with burning coals under the grill, with the temporary interposition of a wooden board that, in case of refusal to confess, was removed, leaving the feet exposed to the burning fire..
It was a "rebound" practice. The torment of the ropecommonly employed, was by law avoided to those who presented some "natural indisposition" that could cause death during torture. Natural or accidental imperfections, or physical malformations of the body, were so sufficient cause to avoid suspension on the rope in favor of the no less painful Carégon..
Because of theextreme physical sufferinghowever, the torture was almost always useless, since the condemned, as we read in the reports, suffered so atrociously that he had neither the time nor the strength to confess while he was at the mercy of the live fire. When the tablet was placed between the burning coals and the feet, the offender did not feel any pain and remained silent.
For this reason the practice of the Carégon soon be abandoned.
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