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 ...

The Scold’s Bridle was a heavy iron mask, somewhat like a cage, that fit tightly over a woman’s head. The mask included a flat piece of iron. This flat piece of iron was sometimes spiked, and it was ...

This item is one of the more disturbing objects in Henry Wellcome’s collection. A ‘Scold’s bridle’ is a fearsome looking mask which fits tightly on to the head. A scold was defined as a “rude, ...

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