Roasted cat :9

One of the greates sources of amusement in sixteenth-centruy Paris was cat burning. At the midsummer´s fair and impresario would gather dozens of cats in a net, hoist them high into the air from a special stage, and then, to everyone´s delight, lower the whole writhing bundle onto a bonfire.

Source:  N. Davies, "Europe: A History" (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996)
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