My thoughts while writing about Owl and Cat symbolism and one of my cats.
While I was writing Owl: Pagan Symbol of Wisdom, I looked at my female tabby moggie, a cat of mixed breeds, and noticed that she looks both very sad and very wise at times. I adopted her from the animal shelter. Due to inhumane cruelty, she lost her tail, although the vets did the best they could to save it. She’s a very spooky animal and very affectionate, but, the latter, on her terms.
For the first time, I noticed that she reminded me of an owl. Later on, while doing research about owls, I learned some Pagans call Owl a cat with wings.
I had written Do Winged Cats Exist? Mutants, Cryptoids, Hoaxes, Freaks of Nature... in April 2007. I’m very interested in cryptozoology, the study of animals unknown to science, like Arkansas’ White River Monster - Serpent or Penguin? or thought to be extinct like or a different subspecies of animals like Onza: Mystery Mexican Big Cat: Is this Animal a Mutant Puma or a ...
Then, I thought of Edward Lear’s poem, The Owl and the Pussycat that I read when I was a child, but all I could remember was they sailed on the sea in a green boat, so I re-read it. http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/pussy.html With some imagination, the cat’s face in one of the illustrations looks like an owl’s.
Synchronicity? Coincidence?
My latest article is Cat: Pagan Symbol of the Arcane. Pyewacket was the cat in the movie, Bell, Book and Candle, a charming one made in 1958 about a modern day witch. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, one of the witches called her cat Grimalkin. When the author lived, this was a term for cats.
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