Norwegian Forest #cats (photographer not known) Happy #Saturday ! Thank you for following xx

12 days until Halloween 🎨Margaryta Yermolayeva

A bit of #Caturday history: That time in 1961 when Hollywood had the best casting call ever. (For Roger Corman's "The Black Cat") Via @UCLALibrary)

It's a Mark Twain #Caturday!

Weekend Link Dump: Witches , ghost-hunters, poison pen letters, Australian geoglyphs, lost cities, Egypt’s Area 51 & more! https://t.co/iFf7Hus3F6

Meet Mr. Mistoffelees, "the original conjuring cat" this #bookologythursday, a tuxedo cat with magical powers in T. S. Eliot's 1939 collection of poems, 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'. Later illustrated by Edward Gorey. #bookologythursday #bookchatweekly #catlore

Pirates kept black cats on their ships, for good luck. It’s said that people began to see black cats as unlucky because they were regarded as the pirates’ “familiars,” who acted as their spies. Obviously, the only solution is to get a feline spy of your own. #FolkloreThursday

The Symphony of the Cat c.1860.

Many believed witches didn't merely have cats, they could shapeshift and become cats! #LegendaryWednesday #catlore

#LegendaryWednesday 🐈‍⬛🧹🎃🧙‍♀️ Medieval European lore celebrates the mystical #Witches who could shapeshift into black cats 🖤🐈‍⬛ under the glow of the full moon. 🌕 These enchanted felines, with glowing eyes like lunar orbs 👀🌑, were believed to be wise guardians and messengers

#Cats can see ghosts & often become successful ghosts themselves. Never ones for being told what to do, they may decide not to cross over but to stay in their home with you. Other cats still on the earthly plane will sense your ghost cat, often on a full moon. #FairyTaleTuesday

"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise." Folklore of Wales, 1909. 🎨 Raphaël Vavasseur #NationalCatDay #FairytaleTuesday

It's #LegendaryWednesday, and nobody does witches and their black cats like Arthur Rackham. Here's "The Witches' Sabbath," for Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1928. #Catlore

For The Master Cat, the only costume needed is a good pair of boots! Here's Puss in Boots about to trick and devour a giant for #WyrdWednesday #catlore Img: 1837 illustration from The Surprising Adventures of Puss in Boots or the Master Cat.

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” (attributed to Sigmund Freud)

Our #Caturday Feline of the Week is Tiddles, “the toughest cat in Fleet Street.” (Daily Mirror 1938, via @_newspapers)

Two cats fighting on a new grave represent an angel and a devil fighting over the deceased's soul. #fairytaletuesday #fairytaleflash #Catlore

If a cat jumps over a grave, the deceased will rise again as a vampire. #Fairytaletuesday #fairytaleflash #catlore

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When Reynard the Fox refuses a royal summons, Bruin the Bear, Tibert the Cat, and Grimbard the Badger are sent after him. Reynard tricks Bruin and escapes, but Grimbard brings him to trial. #mythologymonday #FairyTaleFlash #Catlore