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The ducking stool, rather than being fixed in position by the river or pond, could be mounted on wheels to allow the accused 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 a pond and the shafts would be released, tipping the chair up backwards and dunking the occupant.<ref name="ne"/> |
The ducking stool, rather than being fixed in position by the river or pond, could be mounted on wheels to allow the accused 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 a pond and the shafts would be released, tipping the chair up backwards and dunking the occupant.<ref name="ne"/> |
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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.today/20050507211425/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/126179/1/.html |url-status=dead |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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Dunking is a form of corporal punishment used in the medieval and Early Modern (17th-18th century) period; particularly in the middle of the 17th century.
As punishments for scolds
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Francois Maximilian Misson, a French traveller and writer, recorded the method used in England in the early 18th century:[1]
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,[2] 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.
The ducking stool, rather than being fixed in position by the river or pond, could be mounted on wheels to allow the accused 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.[2] This would be pushed into a pond and the shafts would be released, tipping the chair up backwards and dunking the occupant.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Alice Morse Earle (1896). "The Ducking Stool". Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. Archived from the original on 17 January 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2007.
- ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 361.