The cat has been traditionally associated with black magic in the West for many centuries. The witch's familiar, with which she would converse, might be seen as a survival of earlier, animistic beliefs that attributed a soul - and, by extension, some degree of reason - to all living things, be they plant or animal.
None of which explains or justifies this.
THE WATER BELLS by Charles Wilkinson (Egaeus Press, 2025)
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