The French Pig Trial of 1457

Join Kelli as she looks into the weird world of European animal trials, focusing on the French Pig Trial at Savigny in 1457, where a sow owned by Jehan Bailly was put on trial for the murder of 5-year-old Jehan Martin.


That's right - the pig was put on trial for murder. Not her human owner.


But where does the legal precedent for animal trials come from? Let's find out!


Sources Referenced:

• Alexander Lee, “Pigs Might Try,” 2020. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/...
• Esther Cohen, Law, Folklore, and Animal Lore. 1986. https://www.academia.edu/66540937/Law...
• E. P. Evans, The Criminal Prosecution And Capital Punishment Of Animals. 1906. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43286...
• J. J. Finkelstein, The Ox That Gored. 1981. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1006...
• Paul Schiff Berman, Rats, Pigs, and Statues on Trial: The Creation of Cultural Narratives in the Prosecution of Animals and Inanimate Objects. 1994. https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/v...

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