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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.
The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1]
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
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Summary of Mozambican Refugee Accounts of Principally Conflict-Related Experience in Mozambique Report Submitted to: Ambassador Jonathan Moore Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs
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