>This myth started about cats because people thought Middle Age people were stupid and that they got the wrong idea about cats and that killed them because then

>This myth started about cats because people thought Middle Age people were stupid and that they got the wrong idea about cats and that killed them because then the plague came. If the stupid people just had cats no plague. Monty Python took this mindset to comedic extreme with the "bring out your dead" scene in "Quest for the Holy Grail"; the medieval peasants are literally depicted as belly-crawling through the muddy streets. It's when speaking with average progressives about the past that this skit truly comes into its own, though; the average "modern" really has internalized such defamation about the past. One can see the comedy in their historical exaggerations even if they cannot.