Medieval Punishments

The wooden thing with the holes was for either two quarrelling women or for a married couple at odds with each other. Their necks "fit" into the big holes and their wrists went into the little ones and they were locked together like this until they worked things out. Mom is reading a description of how people paid for their drinks "back when". Those wooden things that look like skate guards are tally sticks. Your drinks were free until your stick was full of notches! (The average German drinks 130L of beer per year and that number is even higher in Bavaria! Suddenly Kitchener's "Oktoberfest" makes much more sense...)

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