Bull-baiting
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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.
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.
External links
- The Trial of 2 Centuries: Animal v. Animal Sport: Bull-Baiting (http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/trial/bullbaiting.html)
- Bull Baiting (http://www.oakengates.com/history/bull%20baiting.htm)
- Bull-baiting (http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLTnoframes/society/bull-baiting.html)de:Bullenbeißer