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*WARNING - Images of Mummified Cats* The last thing one expects to find - or in this instance, have fall on their face - whilst soft-stripping a ceiling is a dusty, old, mummified cat. But that's exactly what happened to one of the demolition crew members at PCA's site on Staines High Street, a row of early-19th century shops. So, what was a possibly 200 year-old cat doing in the ceiling of a shop or floorboards of the house above? Well, we did a bit of digging (pun intended!) and the reasons are more shocking than you might think.
Ritual Mummification in Britain: The Mummified Cat of Staines, Surrey.

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PCA Blog Post via https://pcaarchaeology.blogspot.com/2...
Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain. A Feeling for Magic by Ronald Hutton https://amzn.to/3e9HUHH
The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic by Ralph Merrifield https://amzn.to/34HxwDE

Image Sources:
The Mummified Cat. Courtesy of Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
High Street, Staines, 1895 Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection. Accessed online via https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org....
Cat Mummies c.30 BCE, The British Museum. Accessed online via
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Jacques de Sève, Le Chat d’Angora, from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, Volume 6, 1756. Engraving, 19 x 24.5 cm. © Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Missouri Libraries. Accessed online via https://www.journal18.org/issue7/cats...
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Magdaleine Pinceloup de la Grange, née de Parseval. 1747, oil on canvas. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center. Accessed online via https://www.mariegossip.com/2012/09/1...