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In search of a mythic cat to save a werewolf

Eleanor Konik
May 17, 2021
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White Cat. Photo by Aleksandr Nadyojin from Pexels.

This week I worked on a short story where the protagonist saves a werewolf from hunters, with help from her old barn cat. To make the story work I needed to know more about cats in myth and folklore, so I went digging and discovered:

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  • "Kate Kearney's cat" is proverbially incredibly old, old enough to have "eaten the year."

  • The Assyrian lamassu is …

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