The pig, no matter what you may think about it, there is a pretty good chance that you would never dream of copying what happened centuries ago in France. Even if you are not a big fan of this particular animal, you would probably feel that the French went a bit too far.
The year is 1386, and France is quite an unruly place and is often pre-occupied with its wars against the English. However, in towns and cities around the country, they had a tendency to have different ways of looking at things, especially when it came to the law.
That was why there was a rather surprising event including a pig and a young child. In some strange way, the child was murdered, but rather than try to find the actual individual who was responsible for the brutal killing, the inhabitants of the village decided that they already knew the answer to what was going on, and it had everything to do with a pig.
Yes, they decided that the pig was guilty of murder, and as a result they then hung the pig as its punishment. That had to have been a completely bizarre thing to set your eyes on to see them executing a pig for murder, but then back in the 14th century, there were always a number of strange events going on even though, you would be hard pressed to find something to beat this.