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Two medieval cases against pigs

AI-generated historical reconstruction / Титульна AI-реконструкція. A pig and townspeople in a Norman medieval town square, illustrating the setting of the Falaise case. It does not depict a verified moment or actual people.
AI-generated illustration of a medieval clerk writing a receipt, representing the documentary record rather than the specific execution.

AI-generated historical reconstruction / Титульна AI-реконструкція. A pig and townspeople in a Norman medieval town square, illustrating the setting of the Falaise case. It does not depict a verified moment or actual people.

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In 1386, a sow was hanged at Falaise after a three-month-old child in the household of Jonnet le Maux died following an attack. The executioner’s receipt records payment for the execution and a new glove. A 1394 document confirms that another pig was hanged at Mortain for the death of a child in the parish of Roumaygne. Popular accounts add details about mutilation, clothing and a fast day that these receipts do not confirm.