The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays Usborne Publishing his big sister Via

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The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays Usborne Publishing his big sister ViaWhen the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the 18th century version of "Little Red Riding Hood" did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an