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I assumed this was about the European (maybe only English?) practice of keeping mummified cats in a gap in your house to keep away witches. Dunno what topic is
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
I assumed this was about the European (maybe only English?) practice of keeping mummified cats in a gap in your house to keep away witches. Dunno what topic is more grim, millions of potentially catless years or a mummified cat in your walls.
- b112 4y agoI have no mummified cats, yet I have plenty of mummified mice, due to their sheer numbers, and therefore deaths. I presume this is due to a lack of mummified cats in my walls, which would clearly keep mice mummies away, so I shall precure some posthaste!
- boomboomsubban 4y agoYou've got it wrong, obviously the witches put the mummified mice in your walls. You need the mummified cat to keep the witches at bay.
- b112 4y agoSo the mice are the inverse, magically speaking.
- blueflow 4y agoDo you have a source on the fact that this was done intentionally? I only knew that cats go into hiding then they feel their end is near, that they do this on their own. Thus most "cat is missing" posters actually mean their cat died but kept it secret from its humans.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoTurns out there is a Wikipedia article on the subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_cat Warning, the article does contain pictures, though not nearly as bad as the ones I saw trying to find the article.
- thenthenthen 4y agoI found a mummified cat when renovating a house in Northern France. Always thought the cat must have eaten rat poison/poisoned rat and therefor mummified. How are these preserved? It didn't look embalmed in anyway.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoI tried to look up an answer, the first page suggests they just stuck them in there. Then I decided I've seen my fill of dried cats for today so someone else can look it up.