Cat murder in early modern Ypres July 7, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Modern
Beachcombing has a great interest in the barbarous customs of our ancestors that, rather against the canons of good taste, have survived into modern times. A fine example of this is the Kattenstoet festival in Ypres or, as an English-speaker might have it, the cat-killing festival. Traditionally the good burghers of the city would gather [...]
