Hundreds of butchers with their blunt metal swords were soon cutting the necks of the agitated, crying animals – from rats and pigeons to goats and water buffaloes – in a religious ritual ...

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The site of The Water Rats, has had an impressive legacy as a ... Pinder of Wakefield (a person whose job was to impound stray animals), supposedly connected with Robin Hood mythology.