why do cats feel the need to be stroked?

[Jazzz]

I want to be stroked

 

[rusalki]

In point of fact, the witches familiar could be any animal, not just a cat.

IIRC, I was told once that the reason cats were so popular among witches is that they were/are believed to possess a degree of ESP (Extra Sensory Perception). This made them highly attractive to anyone interested in the occult and so on.

Yes, in fact I wrote that the familiar spirit was OFTEN a cat. And although I'm not English I'm pretty sure that often is not always. Familiars could be toads, bees, dogs, ferrets, mice, rabbit, and once (just once) a thing like a red lion. Talking of ESP in relation to early modern witchcraft is quite absurd.
Early modern people didn't know anything about ESP, and witches had really nothing to do with the occult. That was the magician. But it's another category.And anyway the medieval or early modern or eighteenth century magician has nothing to do with sensorial perception...
In countermagic,or also in popular magic animal blood was employed, for example, to heal bleeding noses and warts. The blood used was generally cat's one. Or also dried toads for bleeding noses. No ESP here, just gruesome sympathetic magic.

 

[panpete]

Looking at these pics makes me almost feel the velvety softness

 

[jayeola]

aaaaaawwwwwww</mushy and gooey icon>

 

[Profhufflepuff]

gorgeous ... is that yours Impludo? Looks like one of those v expensive pedigree ones, alas mine is but a mere s/h moggy, but I loves her anyway

 

[Major Tom]

IIRC, I was told once that the reason cats were so popular among witches is that they were/are believed to possess a degree of ESP (Extra Sensory Perception). This made them highly attractive to anyone interested in the occult and so on.

It might explain why most cats I've had seem to know when I'm on my way home and take up position at the front door to wait for me - up to half an hour before I arrive.

My flatmates when I lived in Brixton told me that my cat - a Burmese - would wake up or come in to the house walk to the front door and sit there and wait - about 20 or 30 minutes before I arrived - it didn't matter that I rarely arrived at a regular time - they told me it was a sure-fire way for them to know I was just about to get home.

My cat at the moment does exactly the same thing - he's usually by the front door whenever I arrive.

 

[mentalchik]

Blimey !!!!!

He looks exactly like my much beloved and missed Charlie !


spooky !