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Ducking stools or
cucking stools were
chairs formerly used for
punishment of
disorderly women, scolds, and
dishonest tradesmen in
medieval Europe and elsewhere...
- castigatory, or
cucking stool,
which in the
Saxon language signifies the
scolding stool;
though now it is
frequently corrupted into
ducking stool,
because the residue...
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medieval torture device with
little actual evidence of use
Brazen bull
Ducking stool Graf,
Klaus (June 21, 2001),
Mordgeschichten und
Hexenerinnerungen –...
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Cangue Castor oil Catapelta[citation needed]
Choke pear
Coffin Crucifix Ducking stool Electroshock weapon Cattle prod
Graduated electronic decelerator ****...
- of the last
ordeals by
ducking stool took
place in
Leominster in 1809, with
Jenny Pipes as the
final in****bent. The
ducking stool is on
public display in...
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Calgary Police ****ociation on July 4, 2014.
Cucking stool,
sometimes known as a "
ducking stool" is a
medieval form of
punishment involving dipping the...
- scold".
Although a
ducking stool had been
constructed nearby, the
court ruled that the
traditional common law
punishment of
ducking for a
scold was obsolete...
- to
humiliate the
guilty party. They
included the
imposition of the
ducking stool, pillory, jougs, a shrew's fiddle, or a scold's bridle.
Scold or shrew...
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Ducking stool at the
medieval Criminal Museum...
- cost £1,500 to construct. Moss (1908)
tells us that in 1760 Retford's
ducking stool was used for the last time. He says it was
situated at the end of a...
