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Branks. Made of iron, a mask that covers the lower part of the face and has a triangle of metal projecting where the mouth would be. It has a heart shape and dots punched out of it, and loops which go over the top and sides of the head.
Branks or gag in iron. Jointed bars enclosed the head and were secured behind, and the projecting plate passed into mouth over the tongue. This specimen was used in the Parish of Dunnotar, Kincardineshire as a form of punishment for female scolds.
Thmbscrew
Decoration, (9) stars & hatching
Scold's Bridle (Wellcome Collection)
Woman wearing a Scold's Bridle. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
gaelic prayerbook
Gaelic prayer book, shown here with a key. See extract of letter in Thomson file: Letter from the Rev Mr Watson (F C) Langholm 1863: 'I told you that I possessed the 'Book of Power' wherewith a wizard or 'wise man' in the island of Lewis held in…
MacBeth and Banquo
Credit: Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Painting after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
Wicked
bradleypjohnson, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Bewitched
Jimmy Emerson, DVMFollow
"Bewitched" Statue
Placed by TV Land in downtown Salem, Massachusetts.
TV Land has also placed a Mary Tyler Moore statue in Minneapolis and Andy Taylor in Mt. Airy…
"Bewitched" Statue
Placed by TV Land in downtown Salem, Massachusetts.
TV Land has also placed a Mary Tyler Moore statue in Minneapolis and Andy Taylor in Mt. Airy…
Harry Potter logo
By Cygomezm - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46671891