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Inside the disturbing history of Chinese water torture and how it caused prisoners to go insane  Many have heard of Chinese water torture, the interrogation method that involves restraining a person and allowing water to slowly drip onto their head until they go insane. But few know the surprising history behind this chilling practice. For starters, no historian has ever found any evidence of water torture originating in China.⁠ ⁠ Instead, most experts point to a 15th-century Italian lawyer named Hippolytus de Marsiliis as the man who first documented the technique. He recorded the method after he observed that continuous drips of water slowly eroded pieces of rock and decided that the same practice could likely be applied to humans. But even though water torture has been around for hundreds of years — and has been used on countless prisoners — the term itself didn't appear in writing until 1892, long after it was first described.⁠ ⁠ Learn more about the disturbing history of Chine