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Winged Cat "From Hell" Put to Death in Central Russia
A winged cat has been killed by villagers near the Central Russian city of Kursk. The locals drowned the deformed puss after believing it was a messenger of Satan, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports.
On entering her yard, Nadezhda Medvedeva saw how a stray cat stood up and, just like a chicken, stretched out two wings. She said that at that moment her hair stood on end. The locals had no doubt the unlucky cat was a messenger of the devil, the Vlasti.net website writes.
Where the cat came from and why it appeared in the village of Bukreyevk nobody knows. Nadezhda Medvedeva, whose home is located on the edge of the village, said she initially heard a soft meowing.
"We poured some milk into a bowl," Medvedeva recounted. "A tom cat came out -- ginger, huge, twice as big as normal. He drank greedily and started meowing again...asking for more. We started feeding him. After a couple of days my daughter came running in all scared and whispered: 'Mom, come and look at the cat! He's got wings!'"
Nadezhda Medvedeva went out and saw how the cat slowly moved its wings exactly as a chicken would. The woman immediately came to the conclusion that the cat was sinister, "just like a sort of devil".
The daughter, having already named the cat Vaska, claimed he was affectionate and had obviously been a pet.
The rumor of the winged cat soon reached Kursk, but by the time a correspondent got wind of it the cat had already been killed by a local drunk, who drowned the unique feline. A sack with the animal's body was recovered later from a pond near the Medvedev's home. Despite the fact decomposition had already set in, the correspondent form the local Komsomol newspaper confirmed the cat did actually have wings.
Speechless (Score:2)
Re:Speechless (Score:2)
This is being scared of the unknown. And, in fact, religion prepares people for that many times. So, it goes both ways.
Re:Speechless (Score:1)
What's the difference between "science says it's an abomination" and "my religion says it's an abomination?"
Etc.
PS. I call dupe [slashdot.org] :H
Wha Hoppen?? (Score:2)
Re:Wha Hoppen?? (Score:2)
If it's real, I think we have some serious problems in our future.
Nah. It just means people do not like that which they do not understand, or are otherwise unfamiliar with.
Re:Wha Hoppen?? (Score:2)
Wow (Score:2)
Re:Wow (Score:2)
People are scared of that which they are not familiar with. Associating it with a superstition was simply easy. If it wasn't that, it may have been from outer space.
Superstition is really when it takes the normal, and makes it abnormal. Start with abnormal, and it really isn't superstition.
True (Score:2)
Re:True (Score:2)
We all know how FUD helps Billy boy make his money.
Dubious, at best (Score:1)
Re:Dubious, at best (Score:2)
Thanx for the report!