I think it's a celtic tradition. Also took place fairly recently in Northumberland.

Yikes the evil prophecy has come to pass -
DX Network Services!

Network backwards is 'Krow Ten' ....looks like there's going to be something freaky happening at 10 Rutland Square .....

& next door at number 3 is a further worry - the first 3 letters backwards 'N X D' is an abbreviation for next door:
Cruse Bereavement Care is at 3 Rutland Square - Cruse is an anagram of CURSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GEMMA FRASER needs to contact the most haunted crew quick.

Don't suppose in those early days the fire brigade would come and rip up the floor and walls to rescue it.

Todays replacement for the cat would of course be a 'Politician' - so dig again in year 2057 and you will probably find a relic - in perfect detail, and well preserved due entirely toe the fantastic living standards of 'the good old days!

Who knows it may be a lucky strike and uncover a complete conglomeration of them all eagerly clutching their latest authorised 'expenses claims' slip!

Reason for demise - 'Ecstatic jubilation' as never before experienced!

Paws for thought.

Am I right in thinking the cat was alive when it was put under the floorboards?

This sounds like an Itchy and Scratchy tale,Mad moggie.

Witchcraft, my big yellow behind!

"Believed to be" .... Jeez, that covers a lot, doesn't it? You can make it up on the spot as long as you start the sentence with those three words.

It is probably the remnant of the old belief that an animal buried under your roof can chase evil spirits away. More likely a fervent Christian did it than old Maisie, the local witch and part-time hag!

#6, not sure, but it may have been, can't quite remember if it had finished its bowl of Ye Olde Whiskas. I certainly don't recall having a dead cat lying about the house.

And when they were building the parliament, they found a body, wonder if that was also to do with witchcraft or good luck...

Lets face it , probably just a deed cat.

"Mummified" , you mean someone had pulled its brain out throug hits nostrils and put its internal organs into separate jars ?

There was a similiar discovery when the renovated a building in a close opposite the City Chambers. When demolishing a 'false' wall in one of the rooms, the workmen came acroos a doorway to a cupboard. When the door was opened they discovered the skeleton of a man. On close examination they saw a medal round his neck. Cleaning the medal they read the insciption ' National Hide & Seek Champion 1785'.....................

I guess that's the hundred and secondth use for a dead cat.

Workmen found the same at my old flat in Mowbray House on the royal mile, wedged inbetween an old stove/fireplace wall between flats. Historic Scotland thought it had been there since the 1700's.

I thought it was jist boggin.

I believe 1 Rutland Square used to be an old Police Office occupied by Edinburgh City Police who were later to become Lothinan and Borders Police. Just goes to show their shoddy treatment of found pets is nothing new...

more like an early days Hibee take away..
it just slipped under floorboards as the Hibee fell tae bed drunk.. it was even still in the wrapper ... LOL.LOL.LOL..

#12 also reminds me of a similar story of an important archeological find:-

In the County of Meath in Eastern Ireland lies the Boyne Valley. An area that has fascinated scholars and archeologists for centuries. There you find Brú na Bóinne, the Palace of Boyne. There you find Dowth, Newgrange and Knowth; Dozens of burial tunnels criss-cross the area. They were built about 3200BC making them older than the Pyramids or Stonehenge.

Richard Watkins of Stanford University was part of a team that were investigating Tunnel 22 that runs north-south through Newgrange. About 122 metres down the tunnel he discovered what appeared to be an ancient cave-in. After 3 days careful work, Watkins and his team discovered that the rocks concealed the entrance to a roughly circular chamber about 4 metres in diameter.

There were clear signs that this chamber was not a burial chamber but showed signs of being inhabited at one time. There were the remains of a fire below a gap in the ceiling that was once, presumably, a primitive chimney and source of light. There were the tattered rags that may have been bedding or clothing and some artefacts (one of which was a knife dated about the eighth century AD).

An examination of the chamber provided evidence that the occupant was connected with a monastery near Drogheda on the River Mattock that pre-dated Mellifont Abbey built on the same site by some 200 years. Records discovered at the abbey site indicated a Monk called MUIREADHACH was entrusted with a "pagan relic so foul it must be forever banished from the world of the living."

This reference led Watkins to re-examine the chamber, whereupon he found a hiding place cunningly carved into the chamber wall and hidden behind a close fitting stone. There was a solid mass about 1 metre by 1 metre by 0.5 metre behind the stone and great care had to be taken in order not to cause any undue damage.

The mass was packaged up and sent to Truro University w

... continued from #17

The search was on for someone who could translate the book. That search ended in Adelaide, Australia with Bryan Tewkes. Tewkes had done extensive research on Pre-Roman Civilisations of the British Isles. It was he that finally identified the title that had filled the ancient monks with so much horror:

"Irish Dancing Part 2: Hand & Arm Movements"

I heard the location was an early pet care scheme.
Satisfaction guaranteed or your mummy back.

#12 love it!

Please note that all jokes in future should be short and punctual.

that is not a cat. its the mummified remains of the last hibs captain to lift the cup.

#22 LOL :-)

This is a mummified cat..

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2005/feb/images/mummif...

Is that what was found ?

Nah , it wasnt.

It was a fat , deed ,old scruffbag of a cat, but Emily loved it.

21. 1969 , In the Sunshine / 2:45pm 13 Feb 2007

Please note that all jokes in future should be short and punctual.

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And funny!

Bet it was the Dalkeith Polis that forgot about it. Was probably a champion mouser in its day, too.

#s 12, 22 & 26 - all made me laugh out loud cheers for that guys.

#24 , maybe test's will show whether someone did love it; dead or alive. ;-)

#21
oh come on, #12 was hysterical!!

I wonder if the kitten missed its mummy...

12 22 LOL

3 Yup. Then he'd pose with a silly grin, and a young lady wouldn't miss a weekend vacation. Of course the boss'd be so relieved that the files weren't burnt that he'd thank all involved and not notice how they thoroughly screwed up a simple cat rescue.

13# you have read it too? Gave a copy to my mum in law as a birthday present then started to give her 3 mogs the dead eye every time I was round, lucky she's got a sense of humour.

Looks as thin as those models they go on about! Maybe it fell of the "catwalk" yea!

remember at one time every mummy was a mummy.

John 34: Are you really, in your revisionist, double standardised, bible swallowing Texan way telling us that we are all descended from Amazons?
Or did you just not think it through?

Rolls eyes and finds NONE of the jokes funny.

i prefer my cats a little more lively. at least onething you don't have to worry about, is, the cat scratching on your sofa. also, the food bill is almost next to nothing.

dave, you do have to admit that the catwalk joke was FUNNY !

@Scaramouche; surely this sort of superstitious attempt at sympathetic magic is by definition "witchcraft", regardless of whether the person in question thought of themselves as Christian? I see what you're getting at in terms of there being no such thing as "witchcraft" as a religion until the early 20th century, and no doubt this person would have been a Christian. By the 1830s even any self-styled rural "wise women" types would doubtless have been nominal Christians. But I still think it's fair to call practices like this "witchcraft", without meaning to say that the person in question was actually a "witch". More "pious" Christians of the time would certainly have called it witchcraft!

can i inject a comment here, just one quick statement. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!