Pictures
This is a small collection of pillories and other pictures of historical shaming devices in Austria and Germany and elsewhere that can be found via google-search:
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Man and woman undergoing public exposure for adultery in Japan, from: "Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs", by J. M. W. Silver, Illustrated by Native Drawings, Reproduced in Facsimile by Means of Chromo-lithography, published in London, 1867."

Public exposure in Japan, from: "Japanese export paintings : unknown Japanese artist."

Public exposure in Japan, from: "Japanese export paintings : unknown Japanese artist."

Gotischer Pranger (frühes 16. Jahrhundert) auf dem Marktplatz von Schwäbisch Hall
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Halseisen am Ilmenauer Rathaus
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Braine-le-Château (Belgium), the pillory and the Bailli House.
pillory at Mons (Belgium) Place du chapitre
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The pillory at Charing Cross as drawn by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-11).
http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/oesterreich/niederoesterreich/weinviertel/pranger.html
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