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of the crime of having carnally cohabited with the dog, and the sentence was that she should be strangled and burnt alive in the great square of the village of Rognon with her ashes thrown to the wind. Her personal property was to be confiscated, deducting however, the sum of ten pounds fine to the
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Claudine in the room where she was caught with the dog. After having undressed Claudine to check if she had slept with a man previously, the dog reportedly jumped on her and attempted intercourse with her. The women believed it was thus
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Parliament ordered that Claudine would "be hanged on the gallows in the great square of Rognon, together with the dog, and that the corpses of both should then be cast into the fire with their ashes spread to the wind so that no possible trace might be left of their misdeeds, so that
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