thumb|A man wearing a schandmantel thumb|Schandmantel A ' or (German, "coat of shame" or "barrel of shame"), sometimes also Spanish coat', is a torture device which came into use in the 13th century. were fashioned from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes or other petty crimes and not known to be used to torture other people. It was an alternative to throwing someone into the stockade or prison.
thumb|A man wearing a schandmantel thumb|Schandmantel A ' or (German, "coat of shame" or "barrel of shame"), sometimes also Spanish coat', is a torture device which came into use in the 13th century. were fashioned from wood and sometimes lined with sheet metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes or other petty crimes and not known to be used to torture other people. It was an alternative to throwing someone into the stockade or prison.
The use of the was comparable to the (German) or (Dutch), heavy stones weighing down from the neck. The was weighted along the lower rim and around the neck opening as a way of corporal punishment in addition to the severe public humiliation it posed.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).