Many famous torture instruments in museums are actually nineteenth-century commercial fabrications.

Evidence

The instruments of torture that you see in museums are usually nineteenth-century artifacts. If you take, for example, the Iron Maiden, a spiked metal coffin which impales its victim, it appears to have been created as entertainment by a Nuremberg antiquarian who put it on display in a used prison. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 792

Categorization

• SEED: SEED: An essay angle exploring how invented historical artifacts shape modern cultural nightmares.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 792