The Ducking stool was a 16th and 17th Century form of punishment derived from the earlier Cucking stool. The Ducking stool punishment would always end in the ducking of the guilty person in water, ...

Lynn Amos was 19 when she took part in one of Bermuda’s earliest ducking stool re-enactments. In August 1957, 1,500 spectators crammed the rocky shoreline to watch Mrs Amos and two other “wenches“, ...