cat legends
Mystical Qualities: The Cat In Ancient Egyptian Culture
There is a great deal known about the place of the cat in Ancient Egyptian culture due to the fact of the abundance of evidence that was left behind. During this period in time, cats came to have mystical qualities, perhaps in association to their acute night vision. They also came to be highly valued [...]
Cats, Myths And Folklore: Buddist Beliefs and Cats
The beliefs of one branch of the Buddist faith practised in southeast Asia thought that when a person who had reached the highest level of spirituality died, their soul then entered into the body of a cat. The soul would then remain there until the cat died, when it entered into Paradise. And despite the [...]
Adam, Eve, Lilith and Cats Superstition
The origin of this superstition seems to go all the way back to an ancient Hebrew folk tale. According to this folk tale, Lilith was Adam’s wife before Eve. She was banished from the garden of Eden for refusing to submit to Adam and then haunted the earth as a demon. Sephardic Jews believed that [...]
Cat Legends: Cats and Vampires
Did you know that until Dracula was published by Bram Stoker in 1897, there was no association between vampires and bats? Vampires were traditionally either cats or wolves. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there was a widely held belief in central Europe that cats could possess a corpse and turn a dead body into [...]
