Ducking stool
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Ducking stools or cucking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in medieval Europe and elsewhere at later times. The ducking-stool was a
Ducking or cucking stool, a historical punishment for the common scold
17th Century ducking stool at Leominster, England; last used in 1809
Pittenweem witches
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The Pittenweem witches were five Scottish women accused of witchcraft in the small fishing village of Pittenweem in Fife on the east coast of Scotland in 1704. Another two women and a man were named a
Pittenweem Parish Church and Tolbooth Steeple where some of the accused witches were held and tortured
Cornfoot was killed in a similar manner to that used in the pressing of Giles Corey during the Salem witch trials.