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Show Cat Long Considered Emissary of Witches Cats have bulked large lu the thought of both the Old world and the New. During the first of the more uotuble witch trials at Chelmsford. England, In lftC8, It was charged that a white-spotted cat named "Sat ham," which aucked blood, bad taken, the form of a toad and caused the death of a man who happened to touch It. An Injunction widely followed was that cats muat be kept away from a corpse to prevent them from mutilating mutilat-ing It or from "taking the soul of the dead." Increase Mather wrote: "There are some who. If cat accidentally acci-dentally comes Into the room, though they may neither see It nor are told of It, will presently be lu sweat ami ready to die away." In eastern Kan bus a cat washing her face before breakfast foretells rain; In western Maine a storm Is assured If a cat scratches a fence: In 8cllly Cove. Newfoundland, tradition asserts that when a cat drowns In salt wster. show ers from the heavens may be expected. |