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One day, one of the most loyal servants saw his master's aged cat carrying in its mouth a shikigami with the samurai's name imprinted on it. Immediately shooting a sacred arrow, the servant hit the cat in its head; and as it lay dead on the floor, everyone could see that the cat had two tails and therefore had become a nekomata .
The reason that cats are seen as yōkai in Japanese mythology is attributed to many of their characteristics: for example, the pupils of their eyes change shape depending on the time of day, their fur can seem to cause sparks when they are petted (due to static electricity), they sometimes lick blood, they can walk without making a sound, their wild nature that remains despite the gentleness ...
Kaibyō (怪猫, "strange cat") [1] are supernatural cats in Japanese folklore. [2] Examples include bakeneko, a yōkai (or supernatural entity) commonly characterized as having the ability to shapeshift into human form; maneki-neko, usually depicted as a figurine often believed to bring good luck to the owner; and nekomata, referring either to a type of yōkai that lives in mountain areas or ...
Bakeneko and Nekomata (cat) Boto Encantado (river dolphin) Itachi (weasel or marten) Jorōgumo and Tsuchigumo (spider) Kitsune, Huli Jing, hồ ly tinh and Kumiho (fox) Kawauso (river otter) Kushtaka (otter) Lady White Snake, Ichchhadhari Nag and Yuxa (snake) Pipa Jing (jade pipa) Selkie (seal) Tanuki (racoon dog) Mujina (badger) Toyotama-hime ...
A cat familiar named “Grimalkin” is the watch cat of Dr. Julian Karswell in the 1957 film Curse of the Demon directed by Jacques Tourneur. It normally looked like a small housecat, but had the ability to transform into a large jaguar to attack intruders. Grimalkin is the name of a mysterious black cat in the game Cat Cafe Manager.
Dr. Mikel Delgado, cat behavior consultant and researcher: "Cats, in the past, were associated with women and witchcraft. And there were a lot of negative things that happened around that.
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It is not clear how or when the flaming cart demon and bakeneko were confounded, but in many cases, kasha are depicted as cat demons, often wreathed in flame. [26] [28] This has led to the modern-day conception of the kasha as one variety of bakeneko, or 'monster cats'. [28]