Is this the time to mention that we also used to put a black cat in a barrel and beat it with bats until the barrel broke and that when the cat fell out, children would continue beating it 'till it died? Nowadays we just put candy instead of traumatised cats in the barrel. The tradition is still called beating the cat off the barrel, though.
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Is this the time to mention that we also used to put a black cat in a barrel and beat it with bats until the barrel broke and that when the cat fell out, children would continue beating it 'till it died? Nowadays we just put candy instead of traumatised cats in the barrel. The tradition is still called beating the cat off the barrel, though.