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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...
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    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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  • the name "ducking stool" appear from 1597, and a statement in 1769 relates that "ducking-stool" is a corruption of the term "cucking-stool". Whereas a...
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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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    of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent. The ducking stool is on public display in...
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  • Cangue Castor oil Catapelta[citation needed] Choke pear Coffin Crucifix Ducking stool Electroshock weapon Cattle prod Graduated electronic decelerator Enema...
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    the Calgary Police Association on July 5, 2014. Cucking stool, sometimes known as a "ducking stool" is a medieval form of punishment involving submerging...
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    Ducking stool at the medieval Criminal Museum...
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    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...
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    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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    Anti-suffrage postcard- For a Suffragette the Ducking-Stool.jpg...
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    Gallows Corner, a road junction a few miles from Brentwood, in Romford. A ducking stool was mentioned in 1584. As the Roman road grew busier, Brentwood became...
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    further criticised the "lie detector" as "the modern equivalent of the ducking stool, or at least about as scientifically accurate". In Vice, Joel Golby...
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    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...
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    a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable...
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    for the book which consists of a highly coloured fully operational ducking stool, shown as a precursor work to Monoculture. From June 2012 – February...
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    gaol in Staines is from 1274 and the erection of a new pillory and ducking stool is described in 1335. There were stocks in the Market Square through...
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    uncovered. However, there are currently plans to construct a replica ducking stool at the site. The village sits on one of the highest points in London...
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    runs south from the War Memorial was the original site of the village ducking stool, where (the story has it) suspected witches were immersed in a pond...
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    1964), flogging (1961), the stocks (1872), the pillory (1830), the ducking stool (1817), joining the military, or penal transportation to America or...
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    referred to as Cuckstool Row; presumably the storage place for the town ducking stool. The name of Poultry emerged about 1800. The Hen Cross stood just within...
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    pillory as a whipping post.[citation needed] Foreword The Bilboes The Ducking Stool The Stocks The Pillory Punishments of Authors and Books The Whipping...
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  • lesser crimes were sent to prison or the stocks. Uses of the pillory, ducking stool, the brank, the drunkards cloak, burning, the breaking wheel, and other...
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    village accused one another of witchcraft and were subjected to the ducking stool, which one passed and the other failed. A number of women were accused...
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    guns, proceeded to sea, firing a salute of 21 guns as she passed the Ducking Stool, The land Saluting Battery near that point returned this salute with...
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  • small islands which were once situated there. The original islands of Ducking Stool, Frazer's and Gallows were used in the early days of the colony for...
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    asking for the short term reintroduction of the "whipping post" and "ducking stool" for "undutiful and runaway wives" whilst a parliamentary inquiry looked...
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    Northamptonshire witch trials, amongst the first in England to use trial by ducking stool, are believed to have been situated at the crossroads in Abington Park...
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    Ducking stool on display in the church...
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    The Dorfplatz with its baker's ducking stool (Bäckertaufe)...
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