Bull-Baiting
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Bull-Baiting
Bull-baiting was a popular
amusement, particularly in
17th and
18th-century
England,
in which trained
bulldogs
attacked a tethered
bull. In
Queen Anne's time it was performed in
London
at
Hockley Hole, regularly twice a week, and there was scarce a
provincial town to which it did not extend. At
Stamford and at
Tutbury,
from a very early period, a maddened bull was annually hunted through
the streets.
Before the event started, the bull's nose was usually blown full of
pepper
to enrage the animal before the baiting. The bull was often allowed a hole in
the ground, into which to thrust his vulnerable nose and lips. A variant of
bull-baiting was "pinning the bull"; specially-trained dogs would be set upon
the bull one at a time, a successful attack resulting in the dog fastening his
teeth strongly in the bull's snout.
Together with other animal
blood
sports such as
bear-baiting,
cockfighting, and
dogfighting, this amusement was prohibited in
Britain by an
act of Parliament in
1835.
See also
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