Talk:The Great Cat Massacre

Funny?
In The Methods of Skills and History, this event was presented in a very different light. The authors present it as a funny event that the masters thoroughly enjoyed... this should probably be determined? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.225.2.205 (talk) 18:35, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

LSD influenced?
I heard a tale that LSD was involved in this, that they were tripping as they declared them witches. Any truth to this? Just another guy trying to be a Chemical Engineer, Nanobiotechnologist, and Mathematician (talk) 04:50, 11 February 2009 (UTC) What? no.
 * LSD wasn't invented until centuries after this was done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.101.16 (talk) 05:13, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

You might be thinking of [|Ergotism], the later stages of which was said to cause psychosis and hallucinations. LSD was originally synthesized from Ergot alkaloids though, so you're right in a way. 17:12, 17 October 2018 (UTC)205.207.178.1 (talk)AFunGuy

Not an actual Massacre
Taking the title of Darnton's book a little too far - removing the link to other massacres! Adding links to Robert Darnton, Natalie Davis and Clifford Geertz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonfang88 (talk • contribs) 01:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC) It was a bit of a massacre, lower/working class workers (excluding the fact class hadn't been invented yet) heard of this any many of them did it because to accuse someone of punishment for the killing of cats would be declared as withcraft? so it would be the perfect way of them getting at their master —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.103.94.12 (talk) 22:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Darnton observes that this isn't a class issue: it's somewhat closer to a guild issue, as the printers saw themselves as a group in opposition not only to the masters but to the butchers, metalworkers, etc. Nyttend (talk) 21:09, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Other chapters missing
So, I didn't make any changes to the existing article, but I thought it should be known that the Great Cat Massacre, for which the book is titled, is the topic of only one of Darnton's chapters. The others are Peasents Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose, A Bourgois Puts His World in Order: The City as a Text, A Poliece Inspector Sorts His Files: The Anatomy of the Republic of Letters, Philosophers Trim the Tree of Knowledge: The Epistemological Strategy of teh Encyclopedie, and Readers Respond to Rosseau: The Fabrication of Romantic Sensitivity, not to mention the conclusion. I feel that these chapters also ought to be represented in the Wikipedia entry. Also, this wikipedia entry does not seem clear about whether it is talking about Darnton's book, or about the event which he writes about (note the first sentence).

70.96.45.206 (talk) 04:23, 15 December 2010 (UTC)