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Weirdos and curiosities from days of yore. All taken from archival sources. Sponsored by Alpha History iPad/iPhone apps.
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1471: To make a man fall in love with you, 'Crazy Katherine' of Arboga suggests sawing the head off a live cat and throwing it at his door.
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1641: Massachusetts sentences Will Hatchet, "a very stupid, idle and ill-disposed boy", to death - for missing church and buggering a cow.
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1734: As the body of St John Joseph lies in state, one of his toes is bitten off by a mourner, "with a most regrettable excess of devotion".
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1638: Troubled by depression, Hannah Allen of London attempts to cure herself by smoking spiders - "one at a time, in a pipe with tobacco".
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1520: In Mexico, Bernal Diaz's men dress their wounds with "the grease from a fat Indian, whom we killed and cut open, for we had no oil".
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1457: A sow and 6 piglets are tried for murdering a boy in Savigny. The sow was hanged but the piglets were pardoned because of their youth.
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1651: A witness swears seeing John Nickell "belly to belly" with Margaret Jarott, who was heard to say "he had the best things in Cheshire".
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1611: On the Duke of Florence's wedding night he had his wife "urinate in a beautiful glass", for a doctor to test her virginity. [Brantome]
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A single man, I'm tipping.
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