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  2. Bad Kitty (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Critical reception for Bad Kitty was mostly positive, with Publishers Weekly praising the book's characters. [1] The School Library Journal wrote that "the story is somewhat convoluted and often defies credulity", but also praised the book's characters. [2] Booklist called the character of Jas "likable, quick-witted, and extremely funny". [3]

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    "When Hell freezes over" [2] and "on a cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come ...

  4. Islam and cats - Wikipedia

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    Wilfred Thesiger, in his book The Marsh Arabs, notes that cats were allowed free entry to community buildings in villages in the Mesopotamian Marshes and were even fed. [4] [page needed] Aside from protecting granaries and food stores from pests, cats were valued by the paper-based Arab-Islamic cultures for preying on mice that destroyed books ...

  5. Are Black Cats Really Bad Luck? We Claw Through the Myth - AOL

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    Black cats being bad luck is a myth that has persisted through the centuries. Find out the history and the truth to see if black cats are really evil or not.

  6. The Cat from Hell - Wikipedia

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    "The Cat from Hell" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. King initially published the first 500 words of the story in March 1977 in Cavalier, and the magazine held a contest for readers to finish the story. The winning entry, as well as King's complete story, was published in the magazine in June of the same year.

  7. Bad Kitty (book series) - Wikipedia

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    Bad Kitty is a series of American children's books by Nick Bruel, about a housecat named Kitty, who often wreaks havoc about her owner's home. The first book, Bad Kitty, [2] was a picture book, published in 2005, and featured Kitty encountering foods and doing activities categorized by the alphabet.

  8. Kasha (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    It is said that the kasha would tear up the corpse, hang it on rocks or trees in the mountains. In the book, there are many kasha in Japan and in China, and here it was the deed of a beast called Mōryō (魍魎), and in the illustration, it was written as 魍魎 and given the reading "kuhashiya" (refer to image). [14] [17]

  9. List of fictional cats in literature - Wikipedia

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    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: T. S. Eliot: Companion to Mungojerrie, a white fluffy Persian queen who first appears in the poem Growltiger's Last Stand. She inadvertently leads to the demise of her suitor, the dreaded Growltiger, at the hands (paws) of a gang of Siamese cats. Growltiger: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: T. S. Eliot ...