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{{For|the dipping of food in a drink|Dunking (biscuit)|other uses|Dunkin (disambiguation)}} |
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'''Dunking''' may refer to: |
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[[File:Old woman draught at Ratcliffe Highway.png|thumb|300px|right|A [[woman]] in a [[dunking stool]] is dunked in a river.]] |
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* [[Dunking (biscuit)]], dipping a biscuit or other food in a liquid |
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'''Dunking''' is a form of corporal punishment used in the medieval and Early Modern (17th-18th century) period; however, it was more prominent in the middle of the 17th century. |
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* Performing a [[slam dunk]] in basketball |
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* Dunking, a medieval punishment using a [[cucking stool]] |
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==As trial== |
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[[Ordeal by water]] was associated with the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries: an accused who sank was considered innocent, while floating indicated witchcraft{{source?|date=January 2019}}. Some argued that witches floated because they had renounced baptism when entering the Devil's service. [[James VI and I|King James VI of Scotland]] (later also James I of England) claimed in his [[Daemonologie]] that water was so pure an element that it repelled the guilty. |
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The idea itself went back to classical times. [[Pliny the Elder]] in his Naturalis Historia, Bk. VII (ca AD 70), translator Philemon Holland, says: Hee <Philarchus> reporteth besides of these kind of men <sc. witches>, that they will never sink or drown in the water, be they charged never somuch with weightie & heavie apparel.<ref>Naturalis Historia, VII, ch.2</ref> |
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==As punishments for scolds== |
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[[File:Dunking crane (Schandkorb) - Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum - Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Germany 2017.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Dunking crane ({{lang-de|Schandkorb}})]] |
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{{main|Cucking stool}} |
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Francois Maximilian Misson, a French traveller and writer, recorded the method used in England in the early 18th century:<ref name="AME">{{cite book|title=Curious Punishments of Bygone Days|chapter=The Dunking Stool|author=Alice Morse Earle|year=1896|url=http://www.getchwood.com/punishments/curious/chapter-2.html|accessdate=18 January 2007}}</ref> |
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<blockquote>The way of punishing scolding women is pleasant enough. They fasten an armchair to the end of two beams twelve or fifteen feet long, and parallel to each other, so that these two pieces of wood with their two ends embrace the chair, which hangs between them by a sort of axle, by which means it plays freely, and always remains in the natural horizontal position in which a chair should be, that a person may sit conveniently in it, whether you raise it or let it down. They set up a post on the bank of a pond or river,<ref name="ne">{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Ducking and Cucking Stools |volume=8 |page=361}}</ref> and over this post they lay, almost in equilibrio, the two pieces of wood, at one end of which the chair hangs just over the water. They place the woman in this chair and so plunge her into the water as often as the sentence directs, in order to cool her immoderate heat.</blockquote> |
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The dunking stool, rather than being fixed in position by the river or pond, could be mounted on wheels to allow the convicted woman to be paraded through the streets before punishment was carried out. Another method of dunking was to use the tumbrel, which consisted of a chair on two wheels with two long shafts fixed to the axles.<ref name="ne"/> This would be pushed into the dunking pond and the shafts would be released, tipping the chair up backwards and dunking the occupant.<ref name="ne"/> |
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==Modern use== |
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In 2004, a soldier from the [[Singapore Guards]] died from a dunking incident during a Combat Survival Training course.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/126179/1/.html |archive-url=https://archive.is/20050507211425/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/126179/1/.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=May 7, 2005 |title=4 SAF commandos found guilty of causing death of NSman in dunking trial |publisher=Channel NewsAsia |date=January 7, 2005}}</ref> |
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In its 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the [[U.S. Department of State]] formally recognizes "submersion of the head in water" as torture in its examination of [[Tunisia]]'s poor human rights record.<ref name = "Human Rights">{{cite journal| first = | last = U.S. Department of State| year =2005 | month = | title =Tunisia | journal = Country Reports on Human Rights Practices | url =https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61700.htm}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
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* [[Dunk tank]] |
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* [[Waterboarding]] |
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* [[Water torture]] |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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[[Category:Witch trials]] |
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[[Category:Water torture]] |
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Latest revision as of 15:08, 11 June 2024
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Dunking may refer to:
- Dunking (biscuit), dipping a biscuit or other food in a liquid
- Performing a slam dunk in basketball
- Dunking, a medieval punishment using a cucking stool
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