Cats Aren’t Just Hallowe’en Symbols
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Posted by Jill Stefko Oct 26, 2009 |
One of my first articles was Cats_Persecuted_as_Familiars which explains their association with Hallowe’en. The early church revered them, associating them with female saints. This ended when the church condemned them as witches’ familiars, demons and the devil himself. Popes decreed they were to be killed. I looked at Draco, my tom and Lynx and Minx, my queens and felt outraged at the cruelty their ancestors living in the Holy Roman Empire would have endured if sighted and caught.
I enjoyed writing about feline symbolism featuring domestic cats, Cat_Pagan_Symbol_of_the_Arcane and the big ones, Black_Panther_Pagan_Power_Symbol and Lynx_Pagan_Symbol_of_Secrets.
One of my passions is anpsi, psychic abilities of animals. Animals have exhibited ESP, telepathy and precognition, psychic knowledge of the future. I wrote about these in
The Psychic World of Cats Part I. I read and saw shows about a cat at a Rhode Island nursing home who was so accurate in predicting deaths that, when Oscar_Feline_Death_Omen
snuggled with a patient, the staff called families to tell them their loved one’s demise was imminent
Cats react to ghosts and have been seen as specters. This is explored in Black_Cat_Haunts_Capitol_Building, Ghost_Story, a case of three women and a cat seeing and reacting to a cat’s ghost, Killakee_House_Haunter_Feline and The Psychic World of Cats Part II.
Incredible_Winged_Cats really exist! A Google search for pictures has some of authentic winged felines and obvious caricatures of them.
As I write, leaves are in bright fall colors. Lynx is lying on the small rug in front of my electric stove with its faux flames blazing. Draco and Minx are happily ensconced on top of my equally faux leopard pelt Snuggie™, a sleeved blanket. Moggies, feline equivalent s of canine mongrels, in autumn's season….
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