Eastern Europe (starting with Poland) had different attitudes, there were very few witch hunts in medieval Poland (mostly they happened later, in protestant par

Eastern Europe (starting with Poland) had different attitudes, there were very few witch hunts in medieval Poland (mostly they happened later, in protestant parts), and cats weren't persecuted. Catholicism in general wasn't very fond of witch hunts (it was forbidden by priests most of the time, because "spells doesn't work, there's just one God"), they were hard on the heretics instead. Some people attribute this (big amount of cats) as one of the reasons Poland went through black death relatively unharmed (also the mostly rural population, of course).