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An Accursed Race |
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| Author
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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| Category
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Horror
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| Language
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English
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distinctive peculiarity which should arrest the eye; and, in the greater number
of towns, it was decreed that the outward sign of a Cagot should be a piece of
red cloth sewed conspicuously on the front of his dress. In other towns, the mark
of Cagoterie was the foot of a duck or a goose hung over their left shoulder,
so as to be seen by any one meeting them. After a time, the more convenient badge
of a piece of yellow cloth cut out in the shape of a duck's foot, was adopted.
If any Cagot was found in any town or village without his badge, he had to pay
a fine of five sous, and to lose his dress. He was expected to shrink away from
any passer-by, for fear that their clothes should touch each other; or else to
stand still in some corner or by-place. If the Cagots were thirsty during the
days which they passed in those towns where their presence was barely suffered,
they had no means of quenching their thirst, for they were forbidden to enter
into the little cabarets or taverns. Even the water gushing out
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