Ceffyl Pren
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The Ceffyl Pren ("wooden horse") was a traditional Welsh form of mob justice. It was a form of ritual humiliation in which offenders would be paraded around the village tied to a wooden frame. It seems to have persisted until the mid 19th century. In later times, an effigy was sometimes burned instead.
Adulterers, harsh landlords, the fathers of bastard children who hid behind the hated provisions of the 19th century Poor Law making the mother entirely responsible for her own predicament, all faced the frightening, embarrassing (and not infrequently painful) effects of these riotous affairs [1].
[edit] References
- ^ And they blessed Rebecca or An account of the Welsh Toll-gate Riots 1839-1844, Pat Molloy ISBN 0-86383-031-5
[edit] External link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/sites/local_history/pages/horse.shtml - Judith Lloyd of Llanteg Historical Society writes about the 'Wooden Horse'
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