Dampening spirits at Mount Carmel High School, Accrington, UK.

From the Buttstock festival. You can tell its in the UK because of the grey skies.

Our German friends have ways of dealing with quarrelsome frauleins....a doppelhalsgeige. Its a shrew's fiddle for two women. Here we see some hot tempered wenches being cooled off.

Remaining in Germany, we now visit the Kaltenberg faire. Here we see the faces of volunteers being glued and feathered. There might have been fewer volunteers if the traditional tar had been used. They must remain in the pillory until they can persuade some of the crowd to kiss them.

Some old scores are settled in Emmerdale, a British TV soap opera.

These vidcaps are from the Richard Bey Show, a US television programme. Here we see a worthy attempt to reinstate the pillory as a community punishment. The entire audience is invited to pie the miscreant in the pillory....which they do with undisguised glee!

More vidcaps from the Richard Bey Show. Baked beans this time. Less fattening than pies, although the truly health conscious would opt for rotten tomatoes. Less than 50 calories per splat.

Some more "before and after" pictures.

Custard pie throwing at an unknown corporate event in the UK.

These are from a British TV show called Wakey Wakey Campers, where volunteers stay in a nostalgic 1960s style holiday camp. The camp has strict rules, as Joanna finds out to her cost.

Another British TV show called Cruel Winter, which shows how far modern holiday camps have improved since the 1960s. Here the guests are treated to a facial in the camp's luxury health spa. In first class, there is a choice of tomatoes, gravy....or horse poo.

These pictures are from a Mexican TV game show, Juega con Nosotros, which translates as "Play with Us".

St Charles Guild believe in the puritan ethos that cleanliness is next to godliness. Let the cleansing of the sinners commence.

Fund raising by Live to Learn CIC, a UK educational charity.

The good people of Mons en Pevele demonstrate their time-honoured method of testing suspected witches. First catch a witch and place her in a medium-sized pillory.

Then apply a large flagon of holy water. The water should be chilled for best results.

The witch should then be annointed with consecrated mud. If a priest is not available, ordinary garden mud will do.

It has been scientifically proven that witches have an aversion to boiled sweets. As you can see, orange flavour is particularly effective.

When confronted with clingfilm, the witch will usually confess that she is a handmaiden of Beelzebub. It is essential that this final test is performed by a man wearing a kilt.

Finally, here are some more miscellaneous pictures.

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