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	Scold's bridle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A Scold's Bridle (also the brank or branks) was a (The act of torturing someone) torture device for women, resembling an iron muzzle or cage for the head with an iron curb projecting into the mouth.
		Modern variants of the Scold's Bridle deliberately designed not to be injurious are used during BDSM (The state of being under the control of another person) bondage practices on both genders as one form of a (Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting) gag.
		The Scold's Bridle is the title of a novel by Minette Walters, where a scold's bridle is a key element in the plot.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scolds_bridle.htm (187 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - General Information (B)
		A bit is the part of a bridle which goes into the mouth of a horse and to which the reigns are attached.
		A branks was a kind of bridle constructed of iron bands, acting as a gag, formerly used in England and Scotland as an instrument of punishment for scolds and slanderous women.
		A bridle is the head-stall and bit by which and by the reins a horse is governed by its rider.
	www.galgani.it /free_encyclopedia/A2.HTM (11429 words)

	DUCKING and CUCKING STOOLS - LoveToKnow Article on DUCKING and CUCKING STOOLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Its use in the case of scolding women declined on the introduction in the middle of the 16th century of the Scolds Bridle (see BRANKS), and it disappears on the introduction a little later of the Ducking-stool.
		The earliest record of the use of this latter is towards the beginning of the 17th century.
		The last recorded cases are those of a Mrs Ganble at Plymouth (1808); of Jenny Pipes, a notorious scold (1809), and Sarah Leeke (1817), both of Leominster.
	7.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DU/DUCKING_and_CUCKING_STOOLS.htm (472 words)

	Scold - Symantec Security Response - W32.Scold@mm
		"A common scold was a crime, in other words, that consisted essentially of Why, the last time a woman was indicted as a common scold in the United
		First used in late medieval Scotland, the scold's bridle, witch's bridle, or brank, as it was sometimes called, had many different appearances.
		SCOLD, one who scolds, ie chides, finds fault with or rebukes with violence or and a " common scold " (in Low Lat.
	siteslinks.com /q/scold.htm (395 words)

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