\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div> \t\t\t\t\tKiki and her cat Jiji in Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s 1989 film<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tThis is why we as adult women should watch Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service<\/em>. [Kiki gets] burnt out and loses her magic. She can no longer speak to her familiar cat, Jiji, and this is devastating. I feel like this is exactly why Miyazaki stories are so good, because it\u2019s so real. You can\u2019t get your old childhood magic back. The only thing you can do is move forward and find new magic.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tFreya, goddess of love in Scandinavian mythology, driving her chariot pulled by cats.<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversal History Archive\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tI feel like this shows her power, because to be able to get two separate individual cats to listen to you enough to drive your chariot is like, \u201cOK, that\u2019s a goddess.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tI\u2019m not Muslim, but [according to some traditions] the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s cat inspired the prophet to tell his followers \u201cBe kind to cats. Don\u2019t harm cats.\u201d And that\u2019s huge; millions of people were then inspired to be kind to cats. Our world today would be completely different if that one cat wasn\u2019t there at the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n \n\tA lot of Japanese people can recite the first few lines. It was my first exposure to a story from the perspective of a cat. It essentially follows this cat\u2019s life and their observations of humans. It also shows how people of the time treated cats.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tSabrina and friends, including the magical talking cat Salem, in the Nineties sitcom.<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBob D\u2019Amico\/Disney General Entertainment ContentGetty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tI just think that any mainstream media where a cat is depicted as an important part of a family and the household is important. We live in a world where a lot of people think of cats as furry pieces of furniture. I like to think that Salem inspired at least, let\u2019s say, 1,000 millennials to think of cats more and maybe want to adopt a cat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\tThe Cats That Pull Norse Deity Freya\u2019s Chariot<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
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<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\t\tThe Prophet Muhammad\u2019s Cat<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
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\n\t\tThe Cat From Natsume S\u014dseki\u2019s 1906 novel <\/strong>I Am a Cat<\/em><\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tSalem (<\/strong>Sabrina the Teenage Witch<\/em><\/strong>)<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
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