The most shameful punishments for women in history (8 photos)

Quite often, this was turned into a fun spectacle for the crowd.





The fairer sex often got into various stories and got it for it. Sometimes the punishments were extremely cruel, and sometimes they were simply shameful.

We will tell you about the latter.

The Shameful Chair



This is an English folk pastime - it was used if someone was caught blaspheming or using foul language.

The woman was seated in a wooden chair and driven around the city. At this time, a crowd would gather and cheerfully watch the torment. Then the chair was tied to a special swing and dipped into the water - right along with the offending aunt.

Straw braid



This is already a French pastime. It was used if a girl was suspected of being amorous. And sometimes - just because she liked to dress vulgarly or even for provocatively wagging her hips.

Public baldness



Such punishment was in many countries. Perhaps the most famous recent cases are in France, where “horizontal collaborators” were brought up this way. Those who cohabited with the Germans during World War II. Such women were shaved in public and with maximum publicity.

Smearing with tar and feathers



It was applied to girls who had lost their virginity somewhere before the marital bed. During the wedding night, the husband would find out that his faithful wife was already past her prime, and would put on such a show. It was popular throughout Europe and for some time in the USA. A similar punishment was practiced in villages, but more often it was limited to tar on the shutters and gates of the house of a tipsy girl.

Gossips' violin



This was a popular thing to do in medieval Germany. Two chatty women were fixed in a simple device and left for a while. Well, so that they could talk to their heart's content and not spread any more rumors.

Conclusion



But this was already in Rus' - this is how unfaithful wives were punished. The woman was stripped naked, tied with a rope to the front of the cart and slowly rode with her through the village. The husband led the procession and occasionally whipped - sometimes the horse, sometimes his faithful wife. And all the neighbors hooted and advised the spouse to wield the whip more vigorously.



The essence of such punishments is public disgrace. In rural areas and small towns, where people lived in communities and everyone knew each other, this was often worse than beatings.