tjmaher Posted February 15, 2017 #1 Share Posted February 15, 2017 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Canuck Posted February 15, 2017 #2 Share Posted February 15, 2017 its Wench Dunking...I had no idea what it was but had to google it...check it out looks like fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailBadtheSinner Posted February 15, 2017 #3 Share Posted February 15, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles4515 Posted February 15, 2017 #4 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) 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. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited February 15, 2017 by Charles4515 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njhorseman Posted February 16, 2017 #5 Share Posted February 16, 2017 FWIW, it's called the wench ducking, not dunking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyjones Posted February 16, 2017 #6 Share Posted February 16, 2017 FWIW, it's called the wench ducking, not dunking. Yes, she's not a doughnut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmaher Posted February 16, 2017 Author #7 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Thank you so much. Putting it on our agenda of things to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Canuck Posted February 16, 2017 #8 Share Posted February 16, 2017 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njhorseman Posted February 16, 2017 #9 Share Posted February 16, 2017 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’). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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