oubliette - a type of dungeon cell. The only opening was in the high ceiling of what was -a pit. This was because it was intended NEVER to release the inmate, but to let him languish forever. Food would be lowered daily through this high hole, and utensils taken up the same way.
Elizabeth Bathory's rooms in her castle were made into a sort of oubliette and she lived years in darkness before the devil came to claim her. She killed 600 girls and that was the least of her crimes.
oubliette - a type of dungeon cell. The only opening was in the high ceiling of what was -a pit. Thi
