WITHIN the city of Worcester lurk many dark secrets but one of the most grisly and gruesome objects has to be the Scold's Bridle, an instrument of torture used mainly on women. This ugly and cruel ...

Gossiping women meet their match in the Scold's Bridle. A bizarre form of punishment reserved exclusively for women was the wearing of the iron scold's bridle. Resembling a muzzle or cage for the head ...

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Germany, the scold’s bridle, an iron muzzle that enclosed a woman’s head and forced a bit into her mouth, was used ...

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