 “Hey! Watch that hand buddy!!”
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A 400-YEAR-OLD cat is the last thing you would expect to find when renovating your home.
But that is exactly what builders came across in the bathroom of an Ugborough cottage. Local legend has it that the mummified moggy was placed in the walls of the house near Plymouth to ward off witches four centuries ago and owner Richard Parson said it had done a good job so far. “I am of the opinion that it works as, since we have lived in the village, we have seen sight nor sound of any witches,” he said.
The new family pet has caused quite a stir in the village with neighbours telling tales of superstition and witchcraft.
“We moved in 18 months ago and were told by neighbours about the cat, which was found when there was building work done in the 1980s,” said Mr Parson, company director of funeral business Walter C Parson.
“We were also told about a child’s booty, left in the house because it was once used as a cobblers and was supposed to bring luck. The exact location of the cat was a secret until it was unearthed.” And despite spending 400 years cooped up in a wall, the cat is in recognisable shape and still has all its claws and teeth. “It is quite scary looking and is a lot bigger than a normal domestic cat,” said Mr Parson.
Admitting that his first thought was to throw the ancient animal in the bin, the 42-year-old has since been persuaded to keep it and re-bury it in the house. “My neighbours said I couldn’t throw it away so we plan to put it back on completion of the building work. “But my wife is not all that keen on it, saying she will have bad dreams.
He’s not dead, he’s just pining!
Sell it to a Korean restaurant.
#1 I’m not sure Koreans eat Cat Jerky but I bet someone would be tempted to a little nibble.
Come on, you know you want to.
This is just like the plot of an episode of “Are You Being Served Again?” (“Grace & Favour” in the UK).
#2 – Dallas
I’m sure they’ll use some dipping sauce… 😉
this must be a UK story, them Brits are nutty.
Well at least they didn’t find a monkey’s paw.
“Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak. Swooning, I staggered to the opposite wall. For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe. In the next, a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall. It fell bodily. The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb!”
–The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe–
Just pining. LOL!