Crazy question

A while back I read a post about taking the ferry over and watching the "dunking" or something when you reach town. It was what sounded like a re-enactment of some sort. Does anyone know what I am talking about? (Lord knows - I don't)

its Wench Dunking...I had no idea what it was but had to google it...check it out looks like fun

A while back I read a post about taking the ferry over and watching the "dunking" or something when you reach town. It was what sounded like a re-enactment of some sort. Does anyone know what I am talking about? (Lord knows - I don't)

The wench dunking is done on the water near King's Square, St George at noon (I think). Go to Youtube and search for wench dunking.

SBtS

The wench dunking is done on the water near King's Square, St George at noon (I think). Go to Youtube and search for wench dunking.

 

 

SBtS

They gather at noon. The dunking is around 12:30.

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FWIW, it's called the wench ducking, not dunking.

FWIW, it's called the wench ducking, not dunking.

Yes, she's not a doughnut.

Thank you so much. Putting it on our agenda of things to do!

prefer wench dunking

its actually what I googled and got the answer

but I know where the ducking comes from..Monty Python

1. All witches are things that can burn.

2. All things that can burn are made of wood.

3. Therefore, all witches are made of wood. (from 1 & 2)

4. All things that are made of wood are things that can float.

5. All things that weigh as much as a duck are things that can float.

6. So all things that weigh as much as a duck are things that are made of wood. (from 4 & 5)

7. Therefore, all witches are things that weigh as much as a duck. (from 3 & 6)

8. This thing is a thing that weighs as much as a duck.

9. Therefore, this thing is a witch. (from 7 & 8)

prefer wench dunking

 

 

its actually what I googled and got the answer

 

 

but I know where the ducking comes from..Monty Python

 

 

1. All witches are things that can burn.

2. All things that can burn are made of wood.

3. Therefore, all witches are made of wood. (from 1 & 2)

4. All things that are made of wood are things that can float.

5. All things that weigh as much as a duck are things that can float.

6. So all things that weigh as much as a duck are things that are made of wood. (from 4 & 5)

7. Therefore, all witches are things that weigh as much as a duck. (from 3 & 6)

8. This thing is a thing that weighs as much as a duck.

9. Therefore, this thing is a witch. (from 7 & 8)

No, it doesn't come from Monty Python. For example, per this source wench ducking was practiced in London at least as far back as the 13th century:

http://londonist.com/2015/12/publicshaming1

The cucking stool

At some point in 1535, a group of women described as ‘mighty vagabonds and wise women of their bodies’ were sentenced to be taken to a foul pond in Smithfield, ‘set upon the cucking stool’ and ‘washed over the ears’. Also known as the ducking stool, this nasty piece of institutional misogyny was essentially a waterside see-saw with a dangling chair, reserved for harlots, loud-mouths and chiding women, engraved with pictures of the devil. (‘To cuck’ meant to void excrement, so it perhaps got its original name as it resembled a toilet). In place by the 13th century, it would be loaded with a woman, swivelled over the water, then dunked in the water repeatedly, the idea being that the immersion would cool the transgressor’s ‘intemperate heat’: ‘no brawling wives, no furious wenches / no fire so hot but water quenches’ as the poem The Ducking Stool summarised the process in 1780 (the similarities with baptism were poignant too, with the ducking stool offering a form of ‘social rebirth’).