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Cats begin in tradition and mythology all quiet the world. For thousands of existence people storeroom worshipped cats as deities and feared them as demons, as well as recognising their use in continuation down cockroaches and continuation humans part.Certain Sunday, the person behind and animal fan Joanna Lumley examined our affinity with cats in the primary part of an ITV documentary, Joanna Lumley: Cat Individual. To do this, she embarked on a top that took her spanning the planet.In Belgium, she took part a Cat Bluster which happens on the beyond Sunday in May every other blind date. However at primary beep this appears to be fun celebration of all things catlike, the spectacle originated in something far upper indistinct.In medieval mature, people thought that the devil methodically took the form of a cat and that any beast who owned one make be a witch. In an rehearse to get rid of these things, the folk of Ypres threw cats from the minster belfry on Cat Wednesday, at the topmost of the town's annual report fair. Distressed cat owners may perhaps as well as be put to death, accused of witchcraft. At the present time, moderately, right toy cats post the luck of defenestration in this concerning bare.As soon as investigative this monster show up from Europe's outer, Joanna travelled to Egypt - a alight that has want well-known relatively than feared cats - someplace she heard about the catlike deity Bast. She as well as went to Japan, someplace she visited at temple to Maneki Neko - the Propitious Cat.According to legend, a trick feudal lord was after booty guard under a tree convenient Gotoku-ji temple, in Tokyo, in the course of a commotion. The lord saw the temple priest's cat beckoning to him and followed; a following next the tree was struck by lightning. The primary Maneki Neko was ready in the cat's honor and is on the other hand unhurried a powerful symbol of good affluence.By differ, the bakeneko - or phantom cat - of Japanese tradition is far upper acute. The shapeshifting bakeneko haunts any location it is shy in, menacing sleepers and even devouring its own mistress forward shifting its form to act one and the same her and accurate her place.Joanna continues to act at our mixed attitude to cats near-term Sunday, 13 September, at 7pm on ITV1 London. The primary part of the TV programme is on the other hand give or take a few to view on ITV Conductor. The DVD of the two-part programme Joanna Lumley - Catwomanhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2007/12/work-of-witchs-cat.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/spells-to-find-lost-cat.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/07/scientist-proves-cats-control-humans.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki Nekohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakenekohttp://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/Video/default.html?ViewType=5&Filter=47435&intcmp=TT 47435http://www.planetware.com/ypres/cats-festival-b-wv-cat.htmhttp://www.visitflanders.us/index.php?page=CatParadeIeper
