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The Criminal Prosecution of Animals
E. P. Evans
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Chief of the stenchy beasts is the pig. In paganism, which to the Christians was merely devil-worship, the boar was an object of peculiar adoration; for this reason the farrow of the sow is supposed to number seven shotes, corresponding to the seven deadly sins. To the same class of offensive beasts belong the wolf, typical of bad spiritual shepherds, and the fox, which is described as follows: “Reynard is a beast of small size, with red hair, a long bushy tail and an evil physiognomy, for his visage is thin and sharp,[Pg 57] his eyes deep-set and piercing, his ears small, straight and pointed; moreover he is deceitful and tricky above all other beasts and exceedingly malicious.” “We are all,” adds Queen Reason in a moralizing strain, “more or less of the brotherhood of Saint Fausset, whose inf. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
A silly reminder how foolish and entitled human in society act and to the great lengths they are willing to go to have their way, often in the name of God/religion. Somewhat amusing and sometimes disturbing.
Honestly, an excellent read. From the accounts of animal/insect trials to the annoyance with medieval lawyers because of their specious arguments. Just be prepared for a LOT of Latin.
"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit."
Hilarious yet historical
There were dry parts of the book, but I laughed, and had to share other parts. It was a captivating read to learn how animals and bugs were charged with crimes and brought to nonsense trials throughout history.
An excellent work on animal prosecution in from Medieval to Modern Europe (and elsewhere), but it's currently 112 years old (first published in 1906 and expanding on work published in 1884), and although it is a great compilation of the source material, the theory is clearly obsolete in many respect
This book abounds with historical anecdotes of not only the criminal prosecution of animals, but of plants, insects, corpses, and various inanimate objects also.
Animals used to be put on trial in court in Europe and Colonial America. It wasn't an everyday occurrence, but it happened reasonably often. This book goes into detail about how it happened and why.
The usual defense of an animal in court was that animals aren't capable of reason, understanding laws,
I didn't like the actual writing that much. Luckily, the content was so ridiculous that it didn't really matter and I managed to march through the book in a few days.
There were so many tangents. The author would open a paragraph. Follow one thought for two sentences then go off on something sort of