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, ...

Drawing of a woman being dragged to a ducking stool at a river in Ipswich, Suffolk, around 1600 Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images “Duck the scold! Duck the scold!” If local legend is to be ...