Genre:

Introduction, Editorial / Letter / Letter

Subjects:

Ethnography, Expoloration

    The two letters concern a custom (stanging), prevalent in Westmorland and Lanarkshire, for the public humiliation of abusive husbands. The second writer compares the custom to 'the analogous practice among the Negroes of Africa, mentioned by Mungo Park, under the denomination of the mysteries of Mumbo Jumbo' (442).