Ladies Pranger

A block of wood, a trunk of a tree. One might have fancied that she was carved out of wood, she stood so stock still till it became unbearable then the cane stung. Master James is drawn to causing discomfort in pain and pleasure. Again the slave begs to be free of the wooden pinching Pranger. The whip was the last straw that broke her. The pranger is a German physical punishment device related to the stocks and the pillory. The Middle Low German word means something that pinches badly. The pranger chained the victims neck to a pair of leg restraints fastened around the ankles. The pranger is a Central European physical punishment device related to the stocks and the pillory. The Middle Low German word means something that pinches badly. In another type of pranger pillory, the condemned person was tied to a column that stood in the town center for public view. The pranger was only used for public humiliation as punishment, not for painful interrogation or coercion.