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There's a folk belief (or maybe a legend of such belief) that when moving into a new house, one should let in the cat first, observe where they choose the resti
by aasasd 5y ago
There's a folk belief (or maybe a legend of such belief) that when moving into a new house, one should let in the cat first, observe where they choose the resting place, and promptly install the bed there.
I guess those people restricted the cat to the bedroom in the experiment, because the instruction mentioned the ‘corner’ where the cat rests, not just any place. Conveniently in this context, though, olden rural houses here mostly just had one big room, due to heating considerations in the northern winters—so no plopping down in the middle of the bathroom like with some cats I know. While in the OP, the practice was compromised by grossly differing dimensions of the cat and the woman.
P.S.: Gotta say, the photos look like from the good old days of planking and such: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kCJp1auybWg/Tmk0MBZaRtI/AAAAAAAABo0/-7w6rRtxfpY/s1600/extreme+batmanning+planking+%252813%2529.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kCJp1auybWg/Tmk0MBZaRtI/AAAAAAAABo...
- cperciva 5y agoThere's a folk belief (or maybe a legend of such belief) that when moving into a new house, one should let in the cat first, observe where they choose the resting place, and promptly install the bed there. It's a very sensible belief! Cats are quite sensitive to drafts, so (especially in days when houses were draftier and lacked central heating) sleeping in the location the cat picks is likely to be much healthier than picking a location at random.
- pengaru 5y agoMy cats would have been insane guides for bed placement. They largely gravitated to wherever the sun shined the most on the floor, and one of them liked to jump into the fridge and nap in there. It was a fun party trick to have a cat abruptly push open and exit the refrigerator in the middle of dinner or a board game, but clearly not the best guide for where to put the bed.
- jeffh 5y agoWait though ... how can you make that assumption without actually testing it? For science!
- TylerE 5y agoYou'll sleep pretty well...once.
- rkagerer 5y agoHah, Schrödinger's fridge.
- cperciva 5y agoThis folk belief almost certainly originated before refrigerators were common fixtures in homes. ;-)
- Melatonic 5y agoOr do the exact opposite Every cat I have seen loves sleeping in the sun and in the warmest spot (assuming it is not SUPER hot out). I do not enjoy those things.
- frederikvs 5y agoThere is a similar folk belief to determine where to build a house. If you have a plot of land, have a herd of sheep graze there. The spot they choose to sleep is where you should build your house. This of course assumes that you have a large enough plot of land, and no zoning laws telling you where you can and can't build.
- mauvehaus 5y agoI think we can confidently say it also requires having a flock of sheep or being able to borrow one for a day or so. Sheep as a Service for those of us who don't have a flock of our own?
- jehb 5y agoI wonder if there's any correlation between sheep grazing locations and actual desirable features for building? My intuition says sheep would graze where the grass is greenest, which if it's like my property would be where the soil keeps water for longer after a rain, which would decidedly be a bad spot to try to set my foundation. But I don't necessarily live in the climate or a similar geological area where this folk belief originated, so now I'm curious.
- danmur 5y ago"good old days of planking" damn I'm old. Planking is in my phone's dictionary too, hahaha