Bestiality can pose significant risks to both humans and animals involved. Some of the potential consequences include:
: These trials were part of a broader culture of public humiliation and extreme corporal punishment. Other contemporary crimes resulted in offenders being scourged through towns or having their tongues bored with hot irons. These stories reflect the rigid influence of the Reformation Kirk Sessions , which sought to eliminate "impurity" through both the and the gallows. Torture, death and damnation at Inveraray Jail!