Ancient codes and laws from various civilizations prescribed strange and harsh punishments, including boiling oil poured over the heads of veiled prostitutes or slaves in Assyria, throwing divorced wives into a river in Mesopotamia, and the death penalty for any crime in Athens no matter how minor. Children in Aztec law courts could be kicked for disrespecting parents, and some outdated laws in various places banned things like entering church with a fake mustache, owning pantsless horses, being drunk in possession of a cow, or naming a pig Napoleon.