Cucking Poems | Examples

Dunking Stool

Cucking-stools
A ballad, dating from about 1615, called "The Cucking of a Scold", illustrates the punishment inflicted to women whose behavior made them be identified as "a Scold"

Then was the Scold herself,
In a wheelbarrow brought,
Stripped naked to the smock,
As in that case she ought:
Neats tongues about her neck
Were hung in open show;
And thus unto the cucking stool
This famous scold did go

Dunking or Cucking Stools were used for women who “gossiped” 
last used in 1809
Stool of Repentance has a long HISTORY!
Will it make a comeback? Bite your tongues