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11 Terrifying Punishments That Women In the Middle Ages Had To Suffer

In the Middle Ages, women had significantly less rights.

The physical or mental punishments that they had to go through were extremely violent.

Women were heavily punished by men. They were never allowed to make mistakes.

Among the punishments, different torture objects were used such as the scold’s bridle or being put into the stocks … and that’s not the end of it.

They sometimes even killed women. These punishments from the middle ages are terrifying and you will be shocked to hear what awful things were allowed to happen and it wasn’t even that long ago.   

 

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