Some places the cat has 6 lives. In Canada the cat has 12 lives, each life is represented by an easter egg because the Canadian easter bunny is a cat. A cat named bunny.
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tyler@programming.dev 2 months agoWait is the cat with nine lives trope an American thing???
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Where in Canada?
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is in Bizarro Canada.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How high was the person that decided this, and how much higher were the people who agreed ‘a bunny, that is a cat, named bunny… yes’?
Deebster@infosec.pub 2 months ago
When Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet it was already old. The proverb “a cat has nine lives, for three he plays, for three he strays, and for three he stays” is older than the USA. Nine is often seen as an magic/auspicious number in Anglo-Saxon culture, which the US is very influenced by.
The multiple lives thing goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed cats were divine creatures and were incarnations of the goddess Bastet (who had the power to reincarnate herself nine times). The Bastet link makes me think that nine is the “right” number of lives.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I assume it’s a Salam Mass thing.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
no, cata having 9 lives is pretty popular around the wotld, but so are 6 and 7