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An historical contraption used as a brutal punishment for gossip has gone on display as part of a local history exhibition. The scold's bridle – a solid iron device worn over the head - is being ...

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 ...

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 ...