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1. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I told the historic part. Local folklore ran away with the story and now, La Corriveau had 7 husbands and devised imainative deaths for each of them, was a witch, and so on. So yeah, there is a lot of exageration, but it can be teased apart from history. Have a good day!

2. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   The cage is now part of the Musée de la Civilisation collections, but not on regular display. La Corriveau remains in both history and legend. Look it up in English on Wikipedia! Yes, there is a picture of the cage.

3. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I didn’t know about Lizzie Borden, had to look it up. Thought you would like a bit of Quebec folklore about Marie-Josephte Corriveau (pronounced Korivo), a woman executed for killing her second husband in 1763, right after the English conquest of New France. First her father was convicted for the suspicious death of her violent husband. The night before he was set to be executed, he confessed to a priest that he was actually covering his daughter. The priest felt it was bad enough to break the secret of confession and report this to the authorities. La Corriveau, as she is known, was arrested, found guilty and condemned to hang. The English authorities added an extra layer of cruelty unheard of in North America: La Corriveau was to be enclosed in an iron cage, hanged in it, and then her body would be exposed publicly. People were horrified, reported strange noises and ghost sightings. Eventually, the body, still in the cage, was buried in an unmarked grave.And this is where the story really gets weird. Many years later, workers digging in that spot found the cage with some bones still in it. La Corriveau was not forgotten, a whole folklore had grown upon her tragic story, they knew right away what they had found. The discovery of the cage eventually came to the ears of PT Barnum, who bought it for his museum of horrors in New York. The cage was considered lost in the fire of the museum in 1865. But! Very recently, in the 2010s, members of a Quebec historical society discovered that the cage had been on loan to another museum at the time. After some research, it turned out that this museum in New England still had the cage in its collection! They agreed to sent it for expertise to a museum in Quebec City, which authenticated the cage as dating from the 18th century and likely the one made for La Corriveau since there are no other instances of that particular punishment being used in North America.

4. 21 days ago on Swan Eaters

   Welcome back !

5. 23 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   My cat loves the printer! Runs to watch when the cruchy sounds start.

6. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thanks for the explanation, the international audience appreciate!

7. 4 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Love the other line!

8. 4 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   If you want to pass it for 2024, you must redraw it with smartphone.

9. 6 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   So sweet ❤️

10. 6 months ago on Breaking Cat News

    You know the July bug. He surely hit her on the head à few times.