by L A Vocelle
Leyster, Judith, 169, 170
Libertas sine Labore, 63
Lil Bub, 6, 357
Lilith, 83, 114
Lille, Alain de, 107, 119
Lincoln, Abraham, 262
Lindbergh, Charles, 6, 319, 327, 364
Lindisfarne Gospels, 3, 79, 80
Linen, 25, 26, 28, 37, 46, 82, 217, 277
Litany of Ascension, 29
Literature, 1, 3, 6, 57, 116, 121, 127, 153, 182, 186, 187, 192, 194, 196, 249, 276, 277, 301, 311, 333, 337, 339, 376, 380
LiTi, 94, 96
Livre de la Chasse, 106
Lollards, 108
Loti, Pierre, 271, 385
Louis XIII, King, 78, 192
Louis XIV, King, 363
Louis XV, King, 197
Lovecraft, H.P., 338
Lucifer, 56, 193, 303
Luttrell Psalter, The, 113
Luxor, 21, 30
M
Macak. See Tesla, Nikola 200
Madamoiselle Dupuy, 209
Madonna of the Cat (Federico Barocci), 168
Maes, Nicolaes, 174
Magic, 1, 2, 53, 54, 55, 56, 74, 83, 89, 93, 100, 103, 134, 150, 152, 214, 246, 269, 280, 295, 326, 371, 372, 374, 375, 378, 379, 380
Mahabalipuram, 91
Malleus Maleficarum, 137, 138
Manciple’s Tale, The, 122
Maneki-neko, 3, 6
Manet, Edouard, 269, 272
Manetho, 39
Manichaens, 108
Map, Walter, 107
Mark the Evangelist, 45
Maspero, Gaston, 29, 40
Massacre, 76, 78, 364, 381
Matisse, Henri, 272, 324
Mau, 35, 36
Maupassant, Guy de, 307
Mayflower, 153
McNeish, Henry, 349, 351, 352
Mean Eyed Cat, 333
Medals, 6, 264, 354
Medicinal cures, 64, 90, 120, 144, 150
Medieval, 57, 104, 117, 120, 121, 127, 377, 378
Mediterranean, 12, 13, 46, 48, 51
Mei Yao Ch’en, 93
Memphis, 17, 24, 36, 44
Mentemhet, 36
Mentuhotep, 36
Mentuhotep III, 15
Metamorphoses, 53, 54, 373
Metsu, Gabriël, 174
Metternich Stele, 29, 30
Miacid, 8
Middle Ages, v, vii, 2, 3, 10, 72, 88, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 114, 120, 132, 138, 152, 153, 253, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379
Middle Kingdom, 15, 17, 24, 31, 37, 38
Mind, Gottfried, 239
Ming Dynasty, 94, 128
Minoan seal stones, 47
Minoan Snake Goddess, 47
Minoans, 46, 47, 48, 52, 372
Miocene period, 9
Misericords, 3, 113
Miss Paisley’s Cat, 329
Missale Romanum, 119
Mitochondrial DNA, 9
Miw, 36
Mohammed Ali Pasha, 29
Mohammed, Prophet, 3, 84, 85, 86, 362, 374
Moisant, John Bevins, 317, 318
Moll Hackabout, 229
Moncrif, François-Augustin de Paradis de, 5, 197, 198, 202, 209, 210, 211, 364, 381
Montaigne, Michel de, 192
Montgomerie, William, 149
Moon, 2, 21, 53, 54, 55, 64, 74, 118, 163, 280, 288, 333, 338, 339, 342
Moralia in Job, 119
Morisot, Berthe, 264, 273
Mosaics, 64, 68
Mostagedda tomb, 13
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, 281
Mother Samuel, 143
Motherhood, 1, 2, 17, 19, 20, 21, 52, 53, 83, 159, 260, 273, 274, 329
Mountain of Cats, 52
Mr. Bigglesworth, 331
Mrs. Chippy, 349, 350, 351
Muezza, 3, 84, 362
Mummies, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43, 124, 197, 246, 361, 370
Mummification, 26, 28
Murakami, Haruki, 342, 343, 344, 345, 387
Music (Hans Baldung Grien), 160
Mut, 16, 17, 20, 31, 32, 35
Mycenaean Linear A and B scripts, 47, 48
Mycenaeans, 46, 48, 52
Myobu No Omoto, 99
Mystical, 53, 56, 92, 132, 309
Mysticism, 2, 246
Mythology, 3, 51, 56, 88, 92, 153, 363, 371, 374
N
Napoleon, 40, 246
National Cat Club, 267
Natsume Soseki, 345
Nature of Good, The, 108
Naville, Edouard, 42
Nebamun, 47, 367
Necropolis, 24
Necropolis of cats, 29
Nectunebo I, 45
Nectunebo II, 29, 45
Nedjem, Pleasant One, 31
Neith, 16, 17, 19, 52
Nekomata, 100, 101
Neolithic man, 12
Nephthys, 20
New Kingdom, 22, 24, 51
Newton, Isaac, 196, 382
Night of a 1000 Cats, 329
Nightingale, Florence, 262, 383
Nine lives, 56
Noah, 84, 85
North and South, 280
Nubia, 20, 36, 370
Nubian, 68
Numidia, 52
Nut, 17, 19
O
Oates, Joyce Carole, 346
Odin, 73, 76
Old Kingdom, 16, 31
Old Woman and Her Cats, The, 143
Olympia, 272
Omen, 2, 59, 90, 255, 316, 342, 349
On the Death of My Cat. See Murakami, Haruki 1
Ordines Augustei, 66
Osborne, Sarah, 149
Oscar, 16, 124
Osorkon I, 39
Ostraca, 32, 36, 112
Ouseley, Reverend G.J., 82
Ovid, 53, 54
Owl and the Pussy Cat, The, 6, 278, 279
P
Paderewski, Ignacy, 275, 276
Pagan, 2, 4, 5, 23, 45, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 82, 83, 132, 138, 196, 359
Pakhet, 21, 38
Palladius, 63, 68, 362
Panchatantra, 90, 362
Pangur Ban, 3, 81, 362
Pantheism, 196, 220
Panthera, 9, 361
Papal Bull Summis Desiderantes Affectibus, 137
Papyrus, 32, 34, 46, 367, 370
Papyrus Harris, 36
Papyrus of Ani, 35
Paris, 5, 119, 120, 133, 164, 167, 211, 213, 227, 249, 265, 272, 320, 322, 323, 324, 330, 334, 380, 382, 383, 384
Pasht, 69
Passional Zoology, 247
Patrick, St., 72
PATSY award, 330, 331
Paudiss, Chrisoph, 170
Pelusium, 44, 73, 362
Pepper, 325, 364
Peraldus, William, 119
Perrault, Charles, 191
Perronneau, Jean Baptiste, 234, 235, 236
Persea tree, 35
Persian, 38, 43, 44, 45, 69, 88, 89, 90, 120, 121, 125, 126, 331, 342, 370, 373
Petrarch, 124, 125
Petrie, Flinders, 17, 36
Phalanthos, 50
Philae, 22, 23, 73
Philosophers, 1, 5, 195, 196, 309
Phoebus, Gaston, 106
Phoenicians, 12, 48, 49, 51, 52, 153
Picasso, Pablo, 270, 272, 320, 321, 323, 324
Pilate Washes his Hands, 127
Pissarro, Camille, 272, 273
Plague, 72, 73, 111, 112, 194, 195, 380
Plato, 337, 359
Pliny, 41, 63, 373
Plutarch, 20
Pocahontas, 153
Poe, Edgar Allan, 6, 300, 303, 304, 328, 385
Poem, 3, 5, 53, 54, 62, 81, 87, 88, 93, 125, 126, 138, 143, 181, 182, 194, 200, 202, 206, 216, 219, 220, 222, 244, 280, 282, 283, 284, 287, 289, 293, 301, 303, 304, 308, 309, 311, 314, 333, 336, 338, 339, 362, 377, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 388
Pointer, Harry, 6, 263, 264, 267, 268
Pole cats, 51
Polytheism, 72
Pompeii, 64
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand,The,
119
Pontormo, 164
Poole, Alice, 140
Pope, Alexander, 196, 363
Portrait of a Young Girl Holding a Cat, 165
Pound, Ezra, 336
Pre-dynastic burial, 13
Pre-dynastic Egypt, 16
Pre-dynastic period, 13
Princess Papule, 353
Proailurus, 8
Procopius, 73
Protestant, 4, 178, 180, 187
Proust, Marcel, 269
Psalter of Louis Le Hutin, The, 113
Psalters, 3, 113, 115
Psamtik I, 36
Psamtik III, 44
Pseudaelurus, 9, 361
Ptolemy, 42
Ptolemy III, 45
Puimre, 366
Pushkin, Alexander, 311
Puss in Boots, 189, 190, 191
Pyramid, 24, 370
Pyramid texts, 29
Q
Queen Mary’s Psalter, 114
Queen’s Medal of Kindness, 263
R
Ra, 18, 29, 32, 35, 281, 366, 367
Randall, Anne, 146
Rats in the Walls, 338
Recco, Giuseppe, 177
Reformation, 4, 153, 178, 180, 187
Renaissance, 4, 153, 154, 156, 161, 178, 378, 379, 380
Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 269, 270
Retired Cat, The, 216
Reynard the Fox, 121, 122, 187, 188
Rhegium, 50
Rhubarb, 330
Richelieu, Cardinal, 192, 193, 257
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 309, 322
Riwle, Ancrene, 110
Rokn-al-Dawla, 89
Roman Empire, 2, 45, 67, 69, 70, 71, 73
Romans, 2, 6, 42, 50, 55, 59, 63, 64, 66, 68, 71, 77, 315, 334
Rome, 1, 23, 43, 45, 55, 63, 69, 70, 71, 82, 119, 124, 371, 372
Ronner-Knip, Henriëtte, 263, 264
Roosevelt, Theodore, 346
Rossetti, Christina, 284
Rossini, Giacchino, 275, 276
Roundheads, 4, 181
Rousseau, Henri, 269, 270, 271, 384
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 196
Rule of Anchoresses, The, 110
Russia, 227, 231
Rutterkin, 146
S
Sacrifice, 15, 92, 93, 132, 312, 364
Salem witch trials, 149
Samhain, 77
Samson, 53
Samurai, 103, 311, 312, 313
Sand, George, 257, 303
Sangbyeok-Myojakdo, Byeon, 244
Sanitation, 5, 111, 195, 245
Santorini, 46
Saqqara, 13, 24, 25, 26, 29, 31, 368, 371
Sarcophagus, 26, 34, 367
Sassanian Empire, 88
Satan, 2, 108, 139, 152, 301
Saxons, 73, 76
Scott, Robert, 6, 349
Scott, Sir Walter, 224
Secret Teachings of All Ages, The, 53
Sekhmet, 17, 18, 19, 38
Serabit El-Khadim, 17
Sesostris, 41
Shackleton, Sir Ernest, 6, 349, 351, 352, 386, 387
Shadow of the Cat, 329
Shakespeare, 122, 187, 188, 379
Sheikh Abd el Qurna, 30
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 282, 283, 384
Shen Chou, 128
Sheshonk I, 39
Shillourokambos, Cyprus, 12
Shippeitaro, 312
Shrove Tuesday, 77
Siamese, 10, 262, 330, 343, 344
Sistrum, 20, 22, 43, 56, 113, 160
Skelton, John, 182
Smart, Christopher, 220
Snyders, Frans, 170, 171
Society for the Protection of Cats, 267
Spell, 29, 133
Speos Artemidos, 38, 368
Spinner and the Visitor, The, 128
Sprenger, Jacob, 137
St. John’s Day, 78
Stearne, John, 146
Steen, Jan, 172, 173
Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre, 6, 263, 265, 266
Steles, 29, 34, 35, 36, 41, 57, 67
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 301
Strabo, 40
Straparola, Giovanni, 189
Study of the Madonna and Child with Cat, 158
Stukeley, William, 206, 382
Sufis, 89, 126, 377
Sui Dynasty, 92
Summoner’s Tale, The, 122
Sumptuary Laws, 105
Sung Dynasty, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
Supernatural, 132
Superstition, 1, 5, 11, 70, 77, 100, 153, 241, 280, 378, 379
Supper at Emmaus (Titian), 164
Supper at Emmaus(Francesco Bassano), 164
Swift, Jonathan, 222
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 287, 385
Symbol, 1, 2, 4, 6, 17, 20, 22, 31, 35, 48, 50, 53, 57, 63, 75, 83, 90, 94, 110, 113, 115, 118, 125, 128, 132, 134, 152, 154, 155, 156, 159, 160, 163, 168, 174, 178, 195, 214, 227, 230, 233, 240, 241, 243, 246, 260, 272, 273, 274, 289, 305, 314, 315, 320, 321, 333, 345, 375
Syria, 12, 48, 71, 370
T
T’ang Dynasty, 93
T’ao C’heng, 128
Ta Mit, 34, See Thutmose
Tacninum Sanitatas, 120
Taigheirm, 132, 133, 364
Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe, 309
Tale of Genji, The, 100
Tale of Tales (Pentamerone), 190
Talmud, 3, 83, 103
Tapetum lucidum, 11
Tara the cat, 358
Taranto, 50
Tarentum, 50, 373
Tarragon Cathedral, 112
Tefnut, 17, 19
Temple, 2, 16, 17, 21, 24, 27, 28, 30, 32, 36, 38, 40, 41, 45, 55, 63, 71, 73, 76, 79, 82, 103, 110, 311, 312, 313, 366, 370
Temple cats, 15
Temple of Bubastis, 40
Temple of Isis, 22, 23, 55
Temptation of St. Anthony (Hieronymus Bosch), 155
Terre Nova Expedition, 349
Tesla, Nikola, 355
Tharros, 48
That Darn Cat, 330
That the Souls of Dumb Animals are not Immortal, 110
Thebes, 15, 16, 19, 21, 24, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 40, 366, 368
Theocritus, 57
Theodosius I, 2, 45, 70
Thérèse Raquin, 303
Three Lives of Thomasina, The, 329
Thutmose, 34
Tiberius Gracchus, 55, 63
Tibert the cat, 121, 187
Tiger in the House, 1
Tintoretto, 164
Titian, 164
Tituba, 149
Tomb, 13, 15, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34, 36, 38, 43, 47, 49, 159, 185, 199, 370, 371
Tomb of Golini, 49
Tomb of Khnumhotep, 37
Tomb of Ligeia, The, 328
Tomb of Nebamun, 31
Tomb of Pharaoh Siptah, 32
Tomb of Puimre, 31
Tomb of Triclinium in Tarquinia, 49
Tombstone of Laetus’s daughter, 67
Tomcat Murr, 310
Topsell, Edward, 144
Torture, 1, 4, 71, 76, 78, 129, 134, 146, 154, 189, 192, 213, 214, 232, 283
Toussenel, Alphonse, 5, 247, 385
Trixie, 141, See Wriothesley, Henry
True Grit, 331
Tull, Jethro, 331, 332
Turberville, George, 184
Turkey, 12, 13, 68, 280
Tutankhamen, 21
Twain, Mark, 6, 276, 296, 297, 298, 299, 383, 384, 385
Two Children Teasing a Cat (Annibale Carracci), 169
Typhon, 52, 54
U
Uncommercial Traveller, The, 277
Underworld, 2, 53, 54, 55
Unsinkable Sam, 354
Uraeus, 18
V
Vallotton, Félix, 272, 320, 321, 322
Vampire, 3, 54, 84, 91, 93, 101, 103, 134, 375
Vampire Cat of Nabéshima, The, 101, 374
Van Gogh, 272, 273
Van Meckenem, Israhel, 128
Van Mieris, Willem, 225
Vaniman, Melvin, 316
Vendels, 73
Verlaine, Paul, 303
Vermin, 12, 13, 49, 51, 74, 86, 111, 126, 205, 353
Veronese, Paola, 167
Victoria, Queen, 262, 263
Victorian, v, vii, 5, 246, 265, 266, 280, 329, 385
Vikings, 73, 80
Virgil, 20
Virgin Mary, 77, 118, 128, 159, 161, 163, 168
Vivisection, 246
Vizier Aper-El, 25
Vomeronasal organ, 11, 15
Von Kulmbach, Hans Suess, 127
Vox in Rama, 108, 109, 133
W
Wain, Louis, 6, 263, 264, 266, 267, 268
Waldenses, 106
Walpole, Horace, 206, 208
War, 6, 16, 19, 43, 66, 73, 111, 253, 262, 315, 326, 346, 347, 348, 352, 353, 386, 387, 388
Warhol, Andy, 323
Warner, Charles Dudley, 301
Waterhouse, Agnes, 139
Watson, Rosamond Marriott, 280
Webber, Andrew Lloyd, 333
Wedding at Cana, 167
Wells, H.G., 267
Wenham, Jane, 148, 376
White Cat, The, 346
Whittington, Richard (Dick), 126, 127, 379
Whoopsy, 317, 319
Wife of Bath’s Prologue, The, 122, 123
Wildcats, 9, 13, 106, 114, 314
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The, 342
Witchcraft, 2, 5, 57, 70, 76, 77, 101, 104, 106, 107, 109, 132, 133, 137, 138, 139, 142, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 152, 192, 195, 241, 357, 359, 376, 377, 378
Witchcraft Act, 140
Witches, 2, 3, 57, 77, 91, 104, 107, 108, 113, 132, 134, 137, 138, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 156, 160, 188, 192, 224, 240, 253, 300, 303, 311, 312, 329, 363, 372, 377
Wolsey, Cardinal, 139
Woman with a Cat, 166
Women, 1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 19, 22, 28, 31, 47, 49, 50, 57, 68, 71, 74, 77, 89, 109, 113, 123, 132, 134, 137, 138, 142, 154, 155, 159, 189, 246, 247, 254, 257, 258, 260, 269, 277, 305, 321, 324, 328, 329, 330, 346, 377, 380
Women at the Adonis Festival, The, 58
Wordsworth, William, 289, 293
Workshop Besti ary, The, 115
Wriothesley, Henry, 141, 208
Wu Zetian, Empress, 92
Wyatt, Sir Henry, 140, 141
Y
Year of the Cat, 333
Yeats, William Butler, 338
Yifan Zhang, 92
Ypres, Belgium, 4, 78
Z
Zeus, 52, 54
Zhou Dynasty, 92
Zola, Émile, 303
Zombie, 93
Zoroastrians, 88, 89
NOTES
† See Appendices for a list of tombs where cats are pictured. (Click here to go back)
† The Persea tree’s small yellow fruit is symbolic of Horus’s heart, and the Phoenix was thought to come to life again from the tree, as it is evergreen. (Click here to go back)
† As an added note it is interesting that in the Arabic alphabet consonants are referred to as sun and moon letters. (Click here to go back)
† Hercules (Click here to go back)
