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Cat burning was a form of cruelty to animals as an entertainment or festivity in Western and Central Europe prior to the 1800s. People would gather cats and hoist them onto a bonfire causing death by burning or otherwise through the effects of exposure to extreme heat.
The throwing of the cats from the belfry is followed by a mock witch burning. Participants in the festivities often dress as cats, witches, mice, or townspeople from ages past, and the festival also features brass bands and people riding on horseback. Around 2,000 people participated in the 2012 parade. [6]
Darnton, influenced by Clifford Geertz who was a colleague of Darnton's and had pioneered the approach of "thick description" in cultural anthropology, aimed to gain greater insight into the period and social groups involved by studying what he perceived to be something which appeared alien to the late modern mind – the fact that killing cats might be funny.
Goldie the cat was apparently trying to flee the flames on a windowsill, when he plummeted to the sidewalk on West 43rd Street as a firefighter reached out in an attempt to save him, video of the ...
"One dog came in and had multiple burns," she explained in the video shared by the news outlet. "His paw prints were singed. "His paw prints were singed. He was completely dehydrated."
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