cat , who ever since has had the M—for Mary, or Madonna — on the forehead.
The Nativity cat
Wake me for the funeral
Cats are generally well thought of in eastern Asia, yet there is an old story that casts the cat in a badlight. According to the story, when...
“Contemptible sneaks”
people who don’t want an animal entering (or leaving) a room with no sound at all. For us cat lovers, sneakiness is part of the total appea...
English meets native
American girl who saved the life of the English settler John Smith, who was about to be executed by the girl’s father, a chief named Powhat...
The high road to China
silk , and the Chinese eagerly brought the elegant rodent hunters back home. Among the Chinese of centuries ago, the cat became a symbol of...
Run of the mosque
people of Europe began to think of cats as “those things that the wicked Muslims are so fond of.”
Muhammad the cat lover
tradition goes back centuries, recalling that dogs in the ancient Middle East were loathsome street scavengers, despised by humans. (You se...
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