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My neighbours cats,they are sisters,but dont ask me who is who.Three black cats are living next door,must ask the neighbour what they are doing for a living!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
beautiful cats though ;D
This is my grumpy cat does that make me a warlock ;D
Quote from: froglegs on September 16, 2007, 15:18:25
This is my grumpy cat does that make me a warlock ;D
Probably not Froglegs - especially since grumpy cat is sat next to Buddha ;D
Black cats aren't 'generally' an omen or a sign of witches in the neighbourhood.
They're more likely to be signs of someone who breeds black cats. And if you live next door to someone who breeds black cats and you own a fence, then the chances are you're statistically more likely to see a black cat (or two) on it ;D
Take it from me! I'm a practising Pagan/Hedgewitch ;D
There's also another legend that if a witch is 'abound' then your milk will go sour.
This is MORE statistically proven in my house, but only because I buy milk and forget to put it in the fridge ::)
Grow an elder tree, witches don't like them at all. Put an iron rod under the carpet behind every door, so they can't get in that way, and if you get any strange people climbing in through the window, offer them nothing to eat or drink but salt and water.
Witchcraft is really serious where Namissa comes from.
It is in Nottingham :o when you only live a broomstick ride from Trixiebelle. ;) ;D
Apparently my Great Grandmother who lived on a commercial apple farm in rural Essex was a great believer in 'white' magic. She used to keep iron under her doormat as described by Robert, and used to make cider in open barrels with yeast floating on a slice of toast with an incantation said over it to keep off the 'vinegar' fly...never had a barrel go sour!
She was also a midwife, (my grandmother only told me that when I said I was going to train to be one) one of the first to be formally qualified under the 1902 Midwives Act when lay midwives could apply for training to be 'proper'. Obviously runs in the blood.......
OOoo er! I was 'accused' of being a witch recently..... or maybe my hearings going and they said bi..... Never mind!
I do read tarot cards though. Have had quite a lot of hits with the info, but even I think that it's all down to generalisation and being able to pick up on things about the other person rather than some occult powers.
Now, where did I leave that toad? ;D
I can never understand why on one hand a black cat is allways associated with witchcraft but then said to be lucky if ya see one!
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on September 16, 2007, 23:53:13
Grow an elder tree, witches don't like them at all.
On the contrary Robert: Elder trees are considered to be protection for witches and are valued highly amongst 'Pagans' (for want of a better word)
Were you joking/being cynical about Namissa's beliefs, or being serious?
Trixie X
FROGLEGS: If you see a black cat then it is PROBABLY associated with a witch. So you should consider yourself lucky that a witch is nearby ;)
I'm being completely serious; one of my in-laws spent a year in Pademba Road Jail charged with keeping human body parts under the bed and using them to do juju to keep the illegal regime in power. They dropped the charge in the end, but it was all over the Freetown press. We even had a glimpse of her on the TV here, with a bunch of other supposed rebel sympathisers they had under guard.
Elder's a bit ambiguous now I look at it; in some parts of the country witches rode on it, on others people planted it outside their doors to keep them away.
:o
I don't mean to be disrespectfull Robert, but other people's lives are always so much more interesting than our own!
Trixie how will i know :o
I had a black cat a few years ago, and called it provo, because it was always sculking in the shadows and around corners waiting to trip me up.
I was always told they were good luck though
Here in holland a black cat is a sign of bad luck.Wenn a black cat is crossing your path beware something nasty good be happening.Black crows wenn you see them in close range somebody has whistle his last song.Sunshine and rain at the same time is called devils playtime.Does a white cat also have a meaning?I had a white cat for a long time.
some white cats are deaf, depends on their eye colour I think â€" not necessarily bad luck for people but not so great for the cat if it's deaf.
great pics though!
Funny you should mention white cats,
I have always had a white cat since I got married and moved to this house (I lived in flats before that) and my second one had a blue eye and a green one.
The vet told me that she was blind on the blue eyed side, and unfortunatly she was hit by a car on this side and had to be put down.
the last one I had for 11yrs until she died of old age.
Aw poor thing. I hope she didn't suffer.
we had a white cat for a while, although he was perfectly able to hear and see! he knew when a can of cat food was being opened or his favourite treats!!
I have the most beautiful black cat called Ella. She chose me at the cat's protection place. She was not offered, but she made herself at home in my cat basket and that was that.
Not mentioning the witch thing here as it would certainly give rise to adverse comments ;D
(I do have a dolly that I stick pins in occasionally though ::))
I have been told that I am decended from a large coven in Hexham, Northumberland, but I don't know how true it is.
I do have an uncanny ability to be able to read people though... :-\
SnooziSuzi,
I had only let her out seconds before she was hit and rang the vet at home to meet me at the surgery,she was seen about 5 minutes later and he told me that although she was still alive that he said that she was brain dead and wasnt suffering. He said that she would not have felt a thing, thanks for asking.
Emaggie,
Cats can be funny like that, they do tend to choose their owner, I felt sorry for the scrawniest wild cat I have seen and started feeding him. My own cats tried to chase him off, so I fed them in the porch and him outside for months.
He would have let me get close but never touch him, until one night he came right up to my back door limping. He allowed me to lift him into the cat carrier and take him to the vet, who told me he had a broken back leg, and the only way to save him was to take his leg off. I said that I would pay for this.
He asked me how old he was and when I said that he was a wild cat he told me that he would never be tame and that as soon as he was better he would likely run wild again . The other stray cats would attack him and the next time he was on the road he would be too slow to get out of cars way, and maybe suffer next time.
God, I cried buckets over that wee cat, I felt so guilty putting him to sleep after him trusting me.
What a horrible thing to happen SM, but the vet was right. At least you saved him from suffering any more. I can't bear to think how he would have suffered if you hadn't taken him to the vet.
Oh!! don't say that! My mother had an almost pure black cat until recently (aptly, and somewhat obviously called Sweep).
Sweep had 4 legs to start with, and then after 2 nasty incidents involving cars he had 3, but managed to get along fine. I should point out at this moment that they chose him because when they went to the pet shop to choose him he was the only one hanging upside down on the top of the cage!
Sadly, he died after having had a very adventurous and full life last year. My parents were devastated, he was as much family as my sister and I. I don't think that he suffered though.
I too had a fun loving cat, Cleo, who went away one day and didnt come back.
I think that my point through all of this is that no matter what we feel about cats, they see things differently.
I was watching a re-run (I think) of Meerkat Manor where Lola had been bitten by a snake and she limped home. She didnt make a sound to let on that she was in pain because by doing so she would have alerted the local wildlife who would have picked her off in an instant. instead she silently made it home to her burrow. This makes me believe whoelheartedly that animals, through instinct and primeval knowledege, dont or can't feel pain, so please don;t let it prey on your mind that she suffered
I do know how hard it is, even though I haven't articulated it very well in this message (d**n the 3/4 bottle of semillon chardonay!!) I do know the pain you are going through.
Have a good cry about it when you need to, but always know that we are there when you need us.. :)
BTW I also think there is something in Cat Karma....
We feed a neglected 'pet' from across the way and he always seems appreciatve of the food, so in our way we are giving back to the big cat in the sky...
You've no idea what a sucker I am for injured animals ::)
Oh has threatened to keep me indoors from now on, as I break my heart every time I can't save something.
I also have a habit of bringing only the scrawniest creatures I can find home and now my boys are doing the same.
Mind you , theirs are usually beasties :P e.g a spider with 7 legs or a woodlice that looks lonley ::) ;D ;D ;D
hehe, I usually have to save the rest of the family from the 6+ legged beasties!!
I'm simply not scared of them, in fact I find them cute and fascinating.
I'd adopt anything that came within spying distance of the hosue too, which OH isn't too keen on... spoilsport!
He he he
You'd love my boys :P
They bring home enough beasties to fill an insect house at the zoo :o
I don't mind that so much as they then want to eat dinner without washing their hands ;D ;D ;D
hehe, builds character I think!
My character or theirs?
I'm convinced they will be in a medical journal some time soon, as the first carriers of bubonic plague this century ::) ;D ;D ;D
Suzie,
I have a toad in my garden if you ever need to borrow one.
Scotch,
Bubonic plague is alive & well in Mongolia where it is rife in the population of thingies related to badgers. They are apparently very tatsy & people there catch the plage by eating infected animals, but you have to eat a lot I'm told. You're boys will be fine and have a cracking immune system.
In Scotland we plant a rown tree in front of the door to keep witches away, and as it says in Burns' Tam o' Shanter
There, at them thou thy tail may toss,
A running stream they dare na cross.
Cheers
Quote from: froglets on September 20, 2007, 12:53:12
In Scotland we plant a rown tree in front of the door to keep witches away, and as it says in Burns' Tam o' Shanter
Who needs a tree when ya got the...WIFE...witches, doubleglazing .......you name it she will stop it, as it says in Nottingham Bugger off I'm not interested. ;)
Quote from: scotch-mist on September 20, 2007, 00:11:31
Mind you , theirs are usually beasties :P e.g a spider with 7 legs
In my house Scotchmist, I regularly get 7 legged spiders and a few days later, money comes through that I'm not expecting! It may only be a few quid here and there, but it happens time and time again!
;D
whoa! now that you mention it I've been 'relocating' the big hairy house spiders from various places in my house to the great out doors, and I've had loads of money coming in that I wasn't expecting!
maybe there is something in this spooky lark after all!
our bobcat is a black(ish) cat many black looking cats have a few white hairs
somewhere I,v read this is because only 100% black cats were regarded as witches cats so they tried to wipe them out :o so the decendents of the ones that got away have inherited the white hairs
there, you found it hard to live without that piece of useless info didn,t you?
marg
are you sure the white hairs aren't because they were being wiped out, marg.. ;D
not sure of anything any more manics have to keep checking what month it is let alone what day :-\
marg