the whipping station is just a large wooden platform that serves to embarrass the peasant villagers that sin, they also hang adulterers and homosexuals.
the whipping station, Outside Church
villager
priests
I officiate over weddings.  I dislike the dark arts.  I perform exorcisms.
Villager! you have been brought here today for punishment of your sins. Are you prepared to confess? But I have done nothing?! You have been accused and you fail to repent!! Confess all, confess all so that God will lessen the pain of the whip. Accused of what exactly? I never went into the forbidden forest? You have stolen from the fruit of the forbidden tree. You must confess. But as I just said I did not enter, I simply thought of doing so as many of the villagers have! Theft is a sin, a sin I tell you. You must confess YOUR sins!!! While I may understand that, as I have told you I did not do it! What proof do you have? You must be possessed of some demon, a victim of the dark arts.... I must perform an exorcism to clear your mind. My crucifix, someone bring me my crucifix!!! Ahh this blame without any evidence and you call yourself a man of god? Demon, Devil Beelzebub, Lucifer, you have no power over this poor villager, be gone, be gone, I command you in the name of god..Ominus Omnipotus, Vanqiquis...be gone that he may confess his sins before God and Man. This one seems incapable of listening to reason.