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My Good Babushka

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Mon Jan 5, 2015, 07:03 AM Jan 2015

The Sow of Falaise



In 1386, the tribunal of Falaise sentenced a sow to be mangled and maimed in the head and forelegs, and then to be hanged for having torn the face and arms of a child who soon after died. the sow was dressed in a man’s clothes and executed on the public square near the city hall at an expense to the state of 10 sous and 10 deniers and a pair of gloves to the hangman.

- paraphrase from E.P. Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, 1906

Illustration known as “The Execution of the Sow from Falaise” is based on a fresco which once adorned the west wall of the Holy Trinity Church in Falaise, France.
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The Sow of Falaise (Original Post) My Good Babushka Jan 2015 OP
How awful! frogmarch Jan 2015 #1
thanks for the link. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 #2
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