Cats with Deboki Chakravarti - It Was a Dark & Stormy Month
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Cats - What Is It?
The word cat is thought to be from the late latin catis. It was first used around the seven hundreds, solect the sixth century. Sary says cats were domesticated in the fertile crescent region of Egypt. And egyptians had rituals involving cats and thought of them with high esteem. But when pope gregory the ninth a warned against witchcraft and paganness, they started associating black cats with lucifer and the devil. So it seems like the catholicsr just l things to blame.
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