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Death in Tudor, England could arrive in ways that were brutal, bizarre, and sometimes darkly ironic.

While plague, childbirth, and warfare claimed countless lives, there were also extraordinary

cases where people died in ways that were so strange they have been remembered in official records.

So there's a new book called Strange Ways to Die in the Tudor Ages

by Emily Bush and Carrie Ingram Gettons, and it gathers these stories into one place. Just to note,

I'm not endorsing the book in particular, but it does provide some unforgettable examples. So today

we are going to look at some of the oddest deaths recorded in Tudor times, from

rampaging cattle to poisonous mushrooms.

The Tudor world was dangerous by default. Life expectancy hovered around 35 to 40 years, and many

children never reached adulthood. And in fact, that 35 to 40 years is mostly because of childhood mortality.

If you made it to adulthood, you start a pretty good chance of making it to older age,

barring any accidents, which we'll talk about. But it was the childhood mortality that really

brought down that average. Outbreaks of plague regularly swept through towns wiping out entire households.

Medical knowledge was limited and cures often caused more harm than the illness itself.

Accidents were frequent in a society where people lived side by side with livestock, open fires, rudimentary tools, and unregulated trades.

Against this backdrop, death was never that far away.

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