Claudine de Culam (c. 1584/1585 – 1601) was a 16-year-old French girl tried and hanged for allegedly committing the act of bestiality with a dog in Rognon, France.
On September 21, the court issued an order to the midwife Jeanne L. Picarde (widow of Thomas Brehault), Genevieve (wife of apothecary André Girard), and Guillemeutte (wife of surgeon Michel F.), to examine Claudine and then report the results of the examination to the judges.
After having undressed Claudine to check if she had slept with a man previously, the dog reportedly jumped on her and attempted intercourse with her.
She begged the court to postpone the trial and execution until she had given birth (equivalent to the practice of pleading the belly in contemporaneous English law), after which the judges sent the accused to prison in accordance with the conclusions of the public prosecutor.
Claudine was convicted as guilty of the crime of having carnally cohabited with the dog, and the sentence was that she should be strangled and burnt alive in the great square of the village of Rognon with her ashes thrown to the wind.