This punishment was exclusively for regicide. In the Netherlands and Belgium the vierendelen (literally "to divide in four"), a practice where the arms and legs were tied to horses and the abdomen was sliced open.On the Isle of Man this "mercy" was denied them and women convicted of treason were also hanged, drawn and quartered. Women who were accused of high treason were, for modesty's sake, instead burned alive. As part of the disemboweling, the man was also typically castrated and his genitals and entrails would be burned.
The man's head and quarters would often be part boiled and displayed as a warning to others. This referred to the practice of drawing a man by a hurdle (similar to a fence) through the streets, removing him from the hurdle and hanging him from the neck (but removing him before death), disemboweling him slowly on a wooden block by slitting open his abdomen, removing his entrails and his other organs, and then decapitating him and dividing the body into four pieces.
If performed on a living creature, it is fatal in all cases.
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