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For an animal found guilty, the penalty was dire. The Normandy pig, depicted in the frontispiece of the Evans book, was charged with having torn the face and arms of a baby in its cradle. The pig was sentenced to be “mangled and maimed in the head forelegs”, and then – dressed up in a jacket and breeches – to be hung from a gallows in the market square.

Very interesting article. 

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    Goddamn I knew Medieval Europe...weird, but holy crap. Go read
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    that is one fashionable condemned pig.
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    Though quite a bit later, Robert Darnton wrote about how...early 19th or late 18th...
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    part to which my brain keeps circling back: “Why dress it up...a jacket and breeches?” I...
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    Interesting article, sorta hard
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