The perpetuation of this myth may be attributed in part to Barbara
Tuchman's very popular _A Distant Mirror_. If I remember correctly, it's
in this book that she describes the medieval game of Battercat.
Contestants secure a cat to a post, claws out, and the first one to kill
the cat using only his head, and without getting his eyes gouged out,
wins.
Stephen
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