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To make a cat o' nine tails, a rope is unraveled into three small ropes, each of which is unraveled again. The 19th-century British naval cat was made out of a piece of rope, thicker than a man's wrist (about 6 centimetres or 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. The first ninety centimetres (3 ft) were stiff and solid, and the ...
The cat o' nine tails is a type of multi-tailed whip. Cat o' nine tails may also refer to: Literature. Cat O'Nine Tails, a 2007 novel by Julia Golding; Cat O ...
The Cat o' Nine Tails (Italian: Il gatto a nove code) is a 1971 English-language Italian film directed by Dario Argento, adapted from a story by Dardano Sacchetti, Luigi Cozzi, and an uncredited Bryan Edgar Wallace. [4] It stars Karl Malden, James Franciscus, and Catherine Spaak. [5]
Hydriastele wendlandiana, commonly known as Wendland's palm, [4] cat o' nine tails, creek palm [5] or kentia palm, [6] is a tall, multi-stemmed tree in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to New Guinea and the Australian states of Queensland and the Northern Territory .
Cat o' nine tails, a nine-tailed whip; Nine-tailed fox spirit; Typha latifolia, a perennial herbaceous plant commonly named "cat-o'-nine-tails"
Kitsune have as many as nine tails. [42] Generally, a greater number of tails indicates an older and more powerful Kitsune; in fact, some folktales say that a fox will only grow additional tails after it has lived 100 years. [43] (In the wild, the typical lifespan of a real fox is one to three years, although individuals may live up to ten ...
Cat O'Nine Tails (2007) – Cat and her friends are press ganged and taken on an unexpected trip across the Atlantic to the West Indies. Black Heart of Jamaica (2008) – Cat joins a theatre troupe in search of work, but, alongside Pedro, soon gets embroiled in a slave revolt in Jamaica.
Kirkus Reviews considered Cat O'Nine Tails to be a weaker novel than the preceding books in the series, noting that it "is a little too long, the adventures a little too forced and Cat falls a little too easily into and out of scrapes". They further noted that "Cat's always able to do whatever needs to be done.