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Role Of Punishment In Puritan Times

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During the puritan times there were strict rules and codes for behavior. If one would violate these rules in any way there was a punishment. In the case of Dedham in 1630 there were the stocks. The puritan’s believed that when someone would sneeze, yawn, or laugh Satan would possess the body and made the person that was possessed misconduct. The stocks were a form of punishment for those who violated the law or a code of behavior. The socks were a wooden contraption in which the ankles and wrists were restrained the person was sat in the middle of the town in this contraption for three days. The person sentenced wouldn’t be fed only some water would be supplied. The only way that the person was freed of Satan was to be tickled by the whole
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