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 ...
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Witch Trial: Ducking Stools

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, ...