To everyone it is clear, that on a shower those cats in whom climbers clamber uphill, and not with what get from a well the sunk bucket scrape not. On a shower ordinary house small animals scrape. Yes that there soul - cats are so mighty, that have reached and clouds where the soul, as is known, gets only occasionally. During a thunder-storm, for example, it is necessary to throw out a black cat from the house, and that it will draw to itself(himself) a lightning. And if black big cat road will run across, that can befall such, that terribly and to think. In no event it is impossible to carry a cat on a horse because the horse will soon die. It is awful also cat's чих - it causes a toothache in the present. However, it is possible to get rid of a toothache, if in time it is polite to tell to a cat "hi". Cat's чих it is capable and of good affairs: if it will be heard by the bride in day of wedding, to it cloudless home life is provided.

It is necessary to transport a cat from the country in the country as its properties change. If in Russia the meeting with a black cat foretold bad in England, on the contrary, it promised good luck. There black cats even were afraid to start up in a court yard - suddenly will steal such happiness? Ability to make happy allocates also modest cat's tails. For example, the tail of a black cat cures barley on an eye, it is necessary to put it by a century. Remember: a tail to a tail - рознь. And for treatment of warts the black tail is not suitable, from warts rescues a tail of a three-coloured cat.

It at us. And behind ocean some vigorous Americans have united in club of struggle against prejudices. Organizational meetings has taken place 13th in a room №13 on 13th floor. Session went under a ring of broken mirrors, lecturers during the speech scattered salt, and the mistress of a premise has been surrounded by 13th black cats.

But give keep to the point. As it is not strange, Europe has got acquainted with a cat recently: ancient Greeks and Romans as if also about it had no concept. It has got to America with the Spanish caravels. (One more sign - the cat by the ship, means also storms are not terrible.) ancestors of a present 500-million livestock house мурлык (wild cats and now at all exotic) lived in Nubia, in territory of present Sudan. Believe, that from here cats and have begun a gain of our houses. However, in Armenia at excavation of dwellings VII - VI centuries remains of cats B.C. have been allocated. Even more unexpectedly other find - a molar of the house cat who have lain in the earth of more eight thousand of years nearby to Jericho. The cat's bones of the same age found in Greece, have even more strongly confused archeologists. Really here again the cat too has been cultivated?
Anyhow, but nevertheless consider, as if in an antiquity the house cat was sacred in Egypt. To it there was припеваючи. Egyptians addressed with it as with a deity. They trusted, as if the soul of the housewife after death hides in a body of a cat. And anyhow - a cat an animal clean, loving an order: it does not suffer, that mice ran on tables to chairs. Egyptians made way for fluffy creations, at a fire took out at first cats, and then belongings. Even for casual deprivation of a life of this four-footed the death penalty relied. And the natural death of cats was a great grief. All family plunged into mourning, people as a sign of the greatest grief cut to themselves eyebrows. A cat мумифицировали and with honour buried on a special cemetery.

Because of a worship for cats ancient Egyptians suffered even military defeats. "Persian tsar Kambiz has gone war on Pharaoh Psamannita. Armies have met in 525 to River Х... Egyptians fought heroically. Persians needed to resort to cunning only. Forward numbers of the Persian army have extracted to themselves cats and have exposed them, each soldier before the breast, in like a board. From fear, accidentally not to kill a cat, Egyptians did not dare to send the well-aimed arrows to numbers of Persians more; battle has come to an end the uttermost defeat of Egyptians" (Martin F.Tri of a nature kingdom.)

Romans and the Greeks, introduced a cat to Europe, played a trick on the reverential relation it of Egyptians though concerned cats not bad. But here there has come a medieval gloom. And in Europe for cats, and not only for black, rainy days have come. Inquisition declared their tool of a devil. And as they in a sin did not confess, them burnt, heated, dumped from high towers. For example, in Flanders hundreds years the law on the cat's environment operated: once a year, in this ill-fated environment, city cats followed catch and dump from a tower.

The Middle Ages have left to us in the inheritance fear before a cat's eye shone in darkness. (By the way why inquisition has chosen the stamp colour the green?) the Middle Ages have allocated cats with supernatural force and have forced them to scrape at us not to a shower.

Well and whence the word "cat" undertook? Here it is necessary to address to reasonings of philologist A.Dolgopolskogo. He writes, as if the Egyptian cat's name is translated into Russian rather unambiguously - "мяу". So Egyptians to the European name of a house small animal of the relation like would not have. And here ancient берберы, living in the north of Africa, a word "кат" named a wild cat. This name was fixed to a house cat and has entered into a lexicon of Romans. Romans and Greeks have transferred the name and cats to other people of Europe.

But here what закавыка: "cat" and "cat" - words a little similar. Why "cat", instead of "котиха" or somehow still? Think, as if the diminutive-hypocoristic word "cat" (ancient Slavs spoke "котька") was born in children's conversations. And one more requirement: the origin of a word "kitten" is not very strong connected with a word "окотиться". For окотиться can both a lioness, and a goat, and a doe-rabbit.