Cat Tales

In search of a mythic cat to save a werewolf

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:

Fun Facts

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

• The Assyrian lamassu is …