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Common scold
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In the common law of crime in England and Wales, a common scold was a type of public nuisance—a troublesome and angry person who broke the public peace by habitually chastising, arguing, and quarrelli
A branked scold in Colonial New England, from a lithograph in A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele and Esther Baker Steele from
A branked scold in Colonial New England, from a lithograph in A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele and Esther Baker Steele from 1885
Scold's bridles or branks were used as a punishment.[circular reference]
Scold's bridles or branks were used as a punishment.[circular reference]
This woodcut shows the wheels on a ducking stool mount which allowed the occupant to be wheeled through the streets before being ducked.
This woodcut shows the wheels on a ducking stool mount which allowed the occupant to be wheeled through the streets before being ducked.
Scold's bridle
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A scold's bridle, sometimes called a witch's bridle, a gossip's bridle, a brank's bridle, or simply branks, was an instrument of punishment used as a form of public humiliation.
Common scold
…fines and public humiliation: dunking (being arm-fastened into a chair and dunked into a river or pond); parading through the street; being put in the scold's bridle (branks) or the stocks. Selling bad bread or bad ale was also punished in these ways in some parts of England in medieval centuries. None of the physical…
16th-century Scottish branks, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
16th-century Scottish branks, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
18th century scold's bridle in the Märkisches Museum Berlin
18th century scold's bridle in the Märkisches Museum Berlin
The "Bishop's branks" of St. Andrews
The "Bishop's branks" of St. Andrews