The Cagots' marginalization was systematic and codified. Beyond separate church entrances, they were often barred from many professions, restricted to trades like carpentry, masonry, and rope-making—jobs considered by some to be 'unclean.' They faced prohibitions on eating with or marrying non-Cagots and were sometimes required to wear a distinguishing symbol, like a duck's foot, sewn to their clothes. Discrimination persisted into the 19th and even early 20th centuries in some Pyrenean villages