Drawing of a woman being dragged to a ducking stool at a river in Ipswich, Suffolk, around 1600 Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images “Duck the scold! Duck the scold!” If local legend is to be ...
Ducking stools consisted of a chair fixed to the end of two long beams, usually between 12 and 15 feet in length. The woman was strapped into the chair, hoisted out over a pond or river, and then ...
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