Witch Trial: Ducking Stools

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The Ducking stool was a 16th and 17th Century form of punishment derived from the earlier Cucking stool. The Ducking stool punishment would always end in the ducking of the guilty person in water, often repeatedly in front of a large crowd.

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Sources:

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days By Alice Morse Earle
Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland By Michael Ostling
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside By Clive Aslet
Punishments of Former Days By Ernest W. Pettifer
Dictionary of Torture By Nigette M. Spikes