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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 [1] and elsewhere at later times. [2] The ducking-stool was a form of wymen pine , or "women's punishment", as referred to in Langland's Piers Plowman (1378).
This woodcut shows the wheels on a ducking stool mount which allowed the occupant to be wheeled through the streets before being ducked. A plaque on the Fye Bridge in Norwich, England, claims to mark the site of a "cucking" stool, and that from 1562 to 1597 strumpets (flirtatious or promiscuous young women) and common scolds suffered dunking there.
The prescribed penalty for this offence involved dunking the convicted offender in water in an instrument called the cucking stool, which by folk etymology became ducking stool. The stool consisted of a chair attached to a lever, suspended over a body of water; the prisoner was strapped into the chair and dunked into the water for her punishment.
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The stocks, pillory, and pranger each consist of large wooden boards with hinges; however, the stocks are distinguished by their restraint of the feet. The stocks consist of placing boards around the ankles and wrists, whereas with the pillory, the boards are fixed to a pole and placed around the arms and neck, forcing the punished to stand.
Illustration from a Pearson Scott Foresman text book Punishing a woman accused of excessive arguing in the ducking stool. Ducking stools or cucking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in medieval Europe [21] and elsewhere at later times. [22] The ducking-stool was a form of wymen ...
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Anti-suffrage postcard- "While in the act of voting" Anti-suffrage postcard- For a Suffragette the Ducking-Stool.jpg Organized campaigns against women's suffrage began in earnest in 1905, around the same time that suffragettes were turning to militant tactics. [ 15 ]