In times of olde, drunks were punished by being forced to wear a barrel in public

Fairly certain that what is going on in the left-side of that engraving (man with a leash to an armature of some sort over a woman’s head) is none other than … The Scold’s Bridle. …nasty male dominance meets yet more public humiliation kinda thing. Oh, for the inventiveness of cruelty to be applied to actual needs

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