Ok, so this time I'm talking about the Scarlet Letter. Basically, it was a red letter "A" that an adulterous person was forced to wear. I'm sure a lot of you had to read the book sometime in school. It's not a "painful" method of torture by any means, but I thought I'd try and find one that one typically might not think of as torture. Like the stocks, it was more of an emotional scarring. No one would talk to someone that had a scarlet letter, and they would be outcasts. I can't even imagine what live would be like not having anyone. Think about how the US would be right now if every single unwed mother or cheating husband had to wear this - there'd be chaos.
Source:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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http://www.alcorngallery.com/JohnAlcorn_TheScarletLetter.html
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