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medieval-canadian · 10 months

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was NO ONE going to tell me that in the premodern era ANIMALS were regularly put on trial for shit like murder (among other things) and often convicted?????????????????????????????????????

#wtf #a student sent me this chapter from a book that talks about a murder trial in france in 1457 #defendants were a [pig] mother & her 6 [pig] children #apparently the mother was found guilty and sentenced to execution #but the baby pigs were pardoned #because #'The court accepted the defense lawyer's argument that the youngsters lacked the mental competence...#to have committed a crime in the eyes of the law'#this is from 'Let Us Now Praise Infamous Animals' by jeffrey st. clair #in hribal's book FEAR OF THE ANIMAL PLANET (2010)#im so fascinated by this

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