The Mysterious Magickal Cat by D.J. Conway

Author:D.J. Conway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mysterious magical cat, mysterious magical cats, mysterious magickal cats, cats, cat magic, cat magick, cat spells, d.j. conway, dj conway, familiars, spells, CVR02072018, CVR07272018, CVR07312018
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2018-09-13T18:56:55+00:00

There is a Scandinavian cat tale that is also found among the folk tales in India. Once there was a strange, magickal, but greedy cat who waited until her mistress was gone from the cottage and then ate all the porridge, the bowl that held the porridge, and the ladle. When the mistress returned and commented on what a fat cat she was, the cat ate the mistress. Still hungry, the cat went out and ate a great many other animals until she burst.

A story from the 1800s tells of a fisherman who became very poor because he was sick. A cat, whom the fisherman had fed every day when the man had visited his owner, changed himself into the shape of a man so he could give the old man two gold coins. This was the cat’s way of thanking the man for being kind to him.

In the Far East there are hundreds of stories about cats taking the shape of old women, priests, courtesans, and young girls so that they can deceive their victims. In this area of the world, it is also thought that the cat gains the power of speech at a certain advanced age.

There are many Japanese paintings that show a pair of running cats. These designs are based on the story of two star-crossed lovers who were forbidden to see each other. In order to be together, they magically transformed themselves into cats and ran away.

In India the cat is considered to be a very magickal creature and a bringer of luck. One of their legends tells the tale of Patripatan, a cat so cunning and insidious that he climbed into the realm of the gods to plead for his master, the prince of the kingdom of Salangham. In Devendiren, a sky land, twenty-four million gods and forty-eight million goddesses reigned, and Patripatan enchanted them all. He especially became a favorite of the king of the gods and the most beautiful of the goddesses. Although the cat didn’t return for three hundred years, his master the prince and all the people of that kingdom didn’t age at all. When Patripatan did return, he carried in his white paws a flowering branch of the holy Parasidam.

There are also many tales of cats in the Americas. In Native American legends, Wild Cat is portrayed as the younger brother of Coyote and represents stealth. The Tiger Cat, or Cat-a-Mountain, is said to be noted for his fierceness and ingratitude. In the hunting rituals of the Zuni, the Wild Cat replaces Badger.

Ccoa, a Peruvian legendary cat, was considered to be a storm spirit; he had a huge head, with hail falling from his eyes and ears. Another South American cat-monster was Guirivulu, whose tail ended in a sharp claw; he could change himself into a giant snake and live in the water.

The feline family is not part of the native animals of Australia, but the Aboriginal tribes have a totem animal known as Wild Cat.

Cats have been immortalized

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