Photograph of a Lithograph: Woman on ducking stool

PHOTOGRAPH of a Lithograph: Woman on ducking stool.

Items made by The National Museum of Wales in connection with an exhibition about crime and punishment in Beaumaris Gaol.

Cucking stools or ducking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds (people accused of being troublesome and angry and who habitually chastised, argued and quarrelled with their neighbours). The cucking-stool was a form of wymen pine, or "women's punishment," as referred to in Langland's Piers Plowman (1378). They were both instruments of public humiliation and censure primarily for the offense of scolding or back biting.

Dim cyfyngiadau/ No Restrictions

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Cyflwr da /Good condition

Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucking_stool

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