one of my favorite ghost stories is called wait till martin comes. Its about a man taking shelter in an abandoned cabin during a rain storm. He makes a fire and falls asleep. he wakes up three times. Each time a bigger black cat is sitting by the fire, and the others ask "should we do it now?" and it would say "Lets wait till martin comes" After he woke to a cat as big as a loin, and they STILL did not attack, he leaps out of the window yelling back, "if martin comes, tell him im sorry i missed him"
@@scarletshield009 It was a tale featured in several books like that, yes. Being scared to pieces as a child about every Halloween was part of the fun, back then.
7:09 "beginning to fear their sanity slipping away" I feel like if you've spent four days roasting dozens of cats alive in a barn whilst being bullied by cat demons you're already pretty far gone
I’m so glad I read the comments before watching this video. I love cats so much, I can’t even hear about them being hurt or it will destroy my soul for the day. I guess I won’t watch the video 😢
@@MisssAliC I love cats too but that story of the Taghairm ritual is one of my favourites. Both disturbing and extremely memorable with an ending that sounds like it's from some epic poem or romantic literature. Out of all the things I read in the Gaelic Otherworld that was what stuck in my mind the most.
Yet another fantastic post, full of stories and related beliefs. Always wondered about the 9 lives of cats. Now I know! 😮 Just love this channel. Would give anything to visit this magical land. I do believe in fairies 😊
My old girl Cleo had the same markings. Found her starving and hiding under a junked out car. Brought her inside and loved her for almost 20 years and she loved me in return. You're very lucky to be starting out on your life with your little fairy. Cherish every day!! 🐈⬛❤️
What a demented lot those two men were. To impale and spit roast countless cats ALIVE and then claim to not to evil doers is terrifying to say the least.
Funny how listening to the stories bring a sense of inner peace to many Scottish blooded. The horror or happy stories are not disturbing. Its making the connection to early ancestoral roots perhaps.
Yes Lovecraft did have a story about a town where it was illegal to kill a cat. In Ulthar the kitties are cuddly if you’re nice, yet should you get not so nice…. Well beware.
Love this! Much more in depth than what I could find online and some extra scottish tales on top! Braw stuff. I saw one of these mysterious cats (unsure if it was spectral or fae like but it was HUGE no one believes me but I saw it twice and it was rather terrifying)
@@LiathWolf oh deffo man! I loved the fact u are scottish too as all the other stuff I find is all americans haha not saying they are awful but they say it wrong and it's like no lol xx
I love my half scottish half irish heritage because the scottish and irish have the best folklore and tales in the world. I grew up hearing tales of kelpies, faeries, leprechauns and changelings etc. Terrifying but really interesting at the same time Just one tiny thing though, the name lachlan is pronounced lock-lan
I have a black cat, with a white spot on her chest. And, she used to stand on her hind legs to look at birds out my basement apartment windows! Now that I'm on the sixth floor, she no longer does that.
These are just lovely, I’ve now watched your Ghillie Dhu and Cat Sith videos. Your voice, pace, retelling style, music and accompanying imagery is really refreshing and well done. You’ve made a fan of me.
I'm from the U.S. with both Scottish & Irish ancestors. When I was around 12 or 13 I was playing in the basement of my house when I saw a spectral cat that walked on it's hind legs. At first I didn't see it but then from the corner of my eye I spotted a large black cat walking on it's hind legs like a man. It was then that I focused on the beast & when I did it stopped dead in it's tracks, turned & looked at me. The hair on the back of my neck stood up because as it turned it's head to look at me, I could see it's green florescent eyes. They didn't reflect light like a normal cat's. They had a hellish light of their own. It was at this time that I bolted off upstairs with speed.
Ya know, I've been searching for folklore online trying to fill out more Fey type creatures for D&D, and in doing so, I categorized the Nekomata yokai, from Japan as fey, as I probably will with many others from the Kamaitachi to the Kappa. but this video surprised me with how I might be close to the mark with that, and how many similarities there are between the Scottish Cait Sith and the Japanese Nekomata. Namely walking on their hind-legs when they think no one is looking, and jumping over the bodies of the deceased to claim their souls.
I think I might be the only non British or Scottish person here lol thank you for the video it's great! It really helped me with a writing assignment for school plus it was insanely interesting and easy to understand, I think I'm gonna start studying cryptids/folklore in my free time now. The images are also extremely detailed, interesting, and beautiful!
I have a tuxedo cat called Chloe. She looks like she's wearing a black tuxedo and white shirt with white cuffs. She has a white diamond on her forehead and a white chest and throat and the white continues all along her tummy and she has white booties on her black legs. She has white whiskers and eyebrows and bright green eyes. Yoir description of the cat sith reminded me of her although she has much more white in her fur. Tuxedo cats have a dominant black gene and a recessive white gene which is how they get their markings in their fur. She's very sassy.
We used to put a wee dish of milk out every Hallowe'en. I was told it was to bring luck from the black cats and bad luck not to. Now I know where that was fae. Thanks for the video.
My caitsidhe, Little Caitsidhe (she got her name because of her appearance...black with the white at her throat, but she is actually smaller than the average domestic house cat), is a sweetie pie. She stands on her hind legs alot. She is very very vocal. However, she loves to snuggle. Also, if I ask, "can I have a kiss?", she will put her nose to mine. I will say, should someone attempted to roast my kitties alive, I would skewer the perpetrators myself.
@@batintheattic7293 The thing is, she is the only one doing it. I have 3 cats. The other two talk to me...the sole human in the house. She goes berserk talking and going after things I cannot see. Even the two tabby cats look at her like she's lost her mind.
sounds adorable. :3 whats her breed? ive been looking up Kellas cats and i cant find enough information about them. maybe a mini version would be easier to learn about
My great-Aunt always put a saucer of cream on our back porch on Halloween eve. Now I know why! My aunt referred to the Cat Sith as " The Grey Malkin." Also called the Grimalkin in Irish folklore.
Once again, you have captivated me. I have a tuxedo,who is quite unique in his ways. You teach so mych about lore and Scotland, truely a magical land. I will always believe in fairies! Thanks agin. I watch your podcast every day and share with my son😊
We had a half curly eared cat. She was solid black, but had a white bib. We called her Elle Bella De' Albo. She was a sweet girl to me but everyone else she scratched.
I had a cat that fits the cat sith description, but she was one of the sweetest cats I’ve ever known. I named her Blair after the Soul Eater character, and she even took an interest in what other anime I watched with her. Her favorite nickname that I gave her was “little familiar”. She was the best homework buddy that liked to sit on my sewing project bin. Maybe I ended up with a crossbreed cat sith/chat d’argent. 😅
Well, -this- is going to add a bit of flavor context to a changeling the dreaming based character i've been mulling over for the better part of a decade...
My partner and I found a black kitten coming up 3 yrs ago (Oct 7, 2020). He used to have a little white spot on his chest and I was convinced that he was gonna be a tuxedo but it disappeared…. Perhaps Binx doesn’t want to reveal just how powerful he really is 😆
I just found this in my recommended video queue today and I cannot tell you how happy I am to have found this channel. I used to live in Scotland and it is so fascinating to learn about my ancestors' culture and history. I hope that this channel get more views.
When I was a little kid we lived on a farm and had barn cats. They were mostly wild as they didn't get handled much. One year there was a little black kitchen he had a white spot on his chest. He got sick. His eyes were gunked shut and he rattled when he breathed. So I took him into the house. I tried to sneak him up to my room so he would warm. I'm allergic to cats. My father heard the kitten meowing and took a look at him. He didn't think it was going to make it but gave it a shot of medicine anyways. He actually gave it way more then it should of had. He figured the kitten would be dead by morning and this way would be more humane. A few hours latter the kitten woke up and was tare assing around the living room. He did lose an eye but otherwise was fine. He gut big during the summer and soon ran the old Tom cat off and took over. He was my buddy. We would go sledding off the calf barn during the winter. During the summer we would explore the farm. Lots of cool places a little kid and a cat could hide on 20 archers. I miss that cat. He never acted like other cats. How many cats would willing jump on someone's lap after the first time of riding a sled off a snow packed roof. Or in a small metal wagon down a hillside. He only clawed me once. And I had almost gotten us killed. Anyways this reminds me of him. So thank you.
In Ireland a black cat is considered good luck as are most black animals. But a black cat with a white mark on his chest and neck may be seen as a Cat Sidhe. Black and White cats are still kept away from the dead at a Wake as to prevent it from devouring the soul of the dead. Nice to see our Celtic folklore being shown off in such great quality
I truly hope folk traditions such as this aren't used as an excuse for animal abuse... At least in the States, sometimes hapless black cats are abused, injured and killed by fools who have absorbed ignorant, Christianity-derived legends which they think excuses their behavior. 🥺
@@mdlahey3874 I've never heard of Christian's hurting black cats. I have heard of ignorant people claiming to be satanists hurting them as part of uneducated "rituals".
Those aren’t Christians. Satanists/necromancer use and believe in “Familiars”. Cats are a common Familiar. All those of God do not fear these claims because they know they have no power. Satanists also sacrifice animals. You clearly know nothing about the word of God. Just because someone says they are of God and know his word doesn’t make it so. Your comment is just as ignorant as those so called Christians.
Having stumbled across the Taghairm a long time ago in my own research, when he brings it up at 3:56, I said outloud: "Oooo....what you're about to hear, kids, is rather fucked up".
A brief story of my big cat sighting. 1984 and i was 16, away fishing with pals who were all older than me, except one, my best friend ay the time. Unsuccessful where we were, we decided to head a few miles further south east of our fishing hole. A beautiful summer morning and as we neared our final destination, we saw a btight light about the size of a football. It was shining brighter than the sun and floating above the ground about 2ft. Next thing we saw was a monster black cat, easily the size of a large dog. To say we craped ourselves was an understatement! The cat had come over a slight rise in a hillside, about 200yrds away. They came side by side and honestly looked like they were out for a stroll together. Definitely a cat, tail straight out and just strolling as the ball of light changed from a ball to a half moon, quarter moon and back to a ball again beside it. Myself and my friend ran closer along a tree line beside the hill they were on. Must have got to within 40yrds of them when suddenly they stopped dead together and the cat looked our way. At the same time the ball of light faded out rapidly and the cat put its head to the ground like going into a hole/den... but there were none once we got to where they were. Both just vanished with the cat head first. Absolutely true. Since then, as an adult man, i recently photographed cat prints in the sandy mud near to that location and although big feline prints, they couldn't belong to that cat as it was massive, certainly not a Panther as it was twice the size of one but definitely cat prints. I don't suppose the big cst is alive now but, being mysterious in nature, who knows, could be another one, perhaps a young one. Since those days ive seen a bounding, Wallybe/Kangaroo thing with wings, with fuxxxng wings!!! It swooped in front of my vehicle about 4am onr day, bounced along in front of my artic truck for maybe 7-9 hops, jumped up to the left side of a single tracked road and d away
Great story, a lot of people have seen large cats all over scotland, many thought it was a panther or at least thats what they described. I have no idea about your winged marsupial haha
One of my asshole neighbors had an unpleasant reputation for capturing and torturing cats, and when one of my husband's cats (a fairly large female with a white spot on her chestand a ferocious disposition that we called Rosie) went missing my husband (who also had a particularly ferocious disposition) went after our neighbor. The cat returned a few days later.
Wait.. I was led to believe that _all_ cats are magical. Oh, kitty! Have you been telling me _lies?!?_ Catnip was used to "distract"? Yeah, I'd assume a cat said "oh, whatever you do, don't get me hIgH! I have a job interview this week.. oh, alrighty, maybe just a little bit of the nippy." By the weekend, kitty is dancing in the clubs & singing (off-key, of course) in karaoke bars, all night _every_ night.
Once about midnight I was on a dark country road and noticed ahead in the distance. There was 3 dark creatures crossing the road, I thought they were raccoons , they were solid black and had russled fur sticking up almost in points, it was strange to see them.
Great video. Thank you. Do you answer questions? I read that black cat sightings are considered fortunate in Scottland. Is that true, in part or in whole? Thank you so much
I can definitely try to answer your questions. In the modern day I have never personally heard that black cats are lucky or unlucky, in scotland specificaly. In the past black cats were respected by many as they were thought to belong to/be the sith or gods.Offerings were commonly given to the sith, but in general they were feared, the offering was not to gain their favor, but to avoid their wrath. So in some ways offereing milk or food to a black cat might bring you fortune, harming them would bring the ire of the spirits/sith,so would be avoided generally (things like the Taghairm, were seen as horrific, even in there own time, in a similar vein as summoning demons or dealing with the devil). Hope this ramble helps, thanks for watching.
I've been told that you should never chase away a strange black cat if it enters your house because it has brought the luck of the house with it and will take it away with them unless allowed to leave on peace, of its own decision
@@kellysouter4381 thank you for the comment! I will keep that in mind should it ever happen. I had feril kittens born in the backyard. And I adopted one. I tried to get the others neutered but mom would not allow. Cats are fascinating.
I'd love to visit the kelpies in scotland. I'd love to hear stories about these creatures. I adore horses so I would probably fall prey to a Kelpie. I dont know much about them, would love to hear stories about them. 🥰💫
Nice video, but I think the one on the left at 15:00 is a jaguarundi not a kellas cat. It's a type of wildcat from the Americas that comes in a broad range of brown colors including the very dark color you see in this image. Look at the nose shape, length of the tail, and the ear shape. All those are distinct features of the jaguarundi. Plus the lighter pattern around the eyes is also typical of the jaguarundi and it's overall build seems consistent with a jaguarundi.
@@LiathWolf That's okay! I don't know a whole lot about specific ones either. It's really just that one because I was doing some light research on animals from that area and it caught my eye. Mostly because of how long the tail was and how much the color can differ. There's another type of wildcat called the bay cat which also has a lot of different possible coat colors but I'd say even more so than the jaguarundi. It's very interesting to me how a lot of people will look at other species and think all the individuals look the same, yet there is genetic diversity in them too. The coat color is just one of the most obvious signs of that. If you compare different pictures you'll start to pick up on differences in facial anatomy or even build. When I was looking to adopt a cat I noticed that there was quite a bit of variation in things like eye shape, how far apart they are, ear size, muzzle shape, etc.... Saw one gray cat that had a rectangular upper lip. It's something that rather interests me because then you consider that the animals can probably pick up really easy on these kinds of differences that humans aren't used to seeing. And then you wonder if our pets might have trouble telling our faces apart.
*eyes my tuxedo cat in the corner who stands on his hind legs regularly*
Good Lord, mine does too. 😳
one of my favorite ghost stories is called wait till martin comes. Its about a man taking shelter in an abandoned cabin during a rain storm. He makes a fire and falls asleep. he wakes up three times. Each time a bigger black cat is sitting by the fire, and the others ask "should we do it now?" and it would say "Lets wait till martin comes" After he woke to a cat as big as a loin, and they STILL did not attack, he leaps out of the window yelling back, "if martin comes, tell him im sorry i missed him"
Sounds like an interesting tale
Why isn't shamans in witches from different do dark art so they can turn into animals
As the story originated in the Scots-Irish areas of the Old South, it might have been a tale about cait sith in a new land.
Ah, scary stories to tell in the dark.
@@scarletshield009 It was a tale featured in several books like that, yes. Being scared to pieces as a child about every Halloween was part of the fun, back then.
7:09 "beginning to fear their sanity slipping away" I feel like if you've spent four days roasting dozens of cats alive in a barn whilst being bullied by cat demons you're already pretty far gone
I’m so glad I read the comments before watching this video. I love cats so much, I can’t even hear about them being hurt or it will destroy my soul for the day. I guess I won’t watch the video 😢
@@MisssAliC I love cats too but that story of the Taghairm ritual is one of my favourites. Both disturbing and extremely memorable with an ending that sounds like it's from some epic poem or romantic literature. Out of all the things I read in the Gaelic Otherworld that was what stuck in my mind the most.
:D
Yet another fantastic post, full of stories and related beliefs. Always wondered about the 9 lives of cats. Now I know! 😮 Just love this channel. Would give anything to visit this magical land. I do believe in fairies 😊
I just adopted a black kittent with a white spot on its chest, nice to know I've got a little fairy. Nice video
Give it plenty of love, and it will love you in return.
Me too! I didn't see it at first.
My old girl Cleo had the same markings. Found her starving and hiding under a junked out car. Brought her inside and loved her for almost 20 years and she loved me in return. You're very lucky to be starting out on your life with your little fairy. Cherish every day!! 🐈⬛❤️
So if you see it waking on 2 legs you know your doomed and the cat has your soul now so your doomed
As a Scottsman that was not taught these stories, I love these I feel like I’m sitting by the fire with ma granda
Well as a black man here in Chicago I to love these tales my friend🙏🏿
@@mercymylord5139 It's pre Christianity mainly so it probably rings a bell with folks over the world who built up similar myths.
What a demented lot those two men were. To impale and spit roast countless cats ALIVE and then claim to not to evil doers is terrifying to say the least.
Hope they got their come uppance in the afterlife.
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 perhaps their souls are being spit roasted as you read this message?
Funny how listening to the stories bring a sense of inner peace to many Scottish blooded. The horror or happy stories are not disturbing. Its making the connection to early ancestoral roots perhaps.
_The cats of Ulthar would like to know your location_
Yog-Sothoth :)
Yes Lovecraft did have a story about a town where it was illegal to kill a cat.
In Ulthar the kitties are cuddly if you’re nice, yet should you get not so nice…. Well beware.
Cats in the Cthulhu Mythos themselves are a highly advanced civilization.
I knew my cat was DIFFERENT. She sings to herself all the time.
why do I picture someone sitting for a wake armed with a water gun?
So that cat thing from final fantasy 7 was based on this. Never knew that.
My favourite game of all time! 😊
That’s delightful! I thought of him too!
I learned a lot, especially how to pronounce Cait Sith, for all those years I did it wrong 😭
I think a lot of people including myself probably learned what the Cait Sith was because of that game. 😀
Love this! Much more in depth than what I could find online and some extra scottish tales on top! Braw stuff. I saw one of these mysterious cats (unsure if it was spectral or fae like but it was HUGE no one believes me but I saw it twice and it was rather terrifying)
Thanks for watching, there has been so much sightings that there must be something out there haha.
@@LiathWolf oh deffo man! I loved the fact u are scottish too as all the other stuff I find is all americans haha not saying they are awful but they say it wrong and it's like no lol xx
I love my half scottish half irish heritage because the scottish and irish have the best folklore and tales in the world. I grew up hearing tales of kelpies, faeries, leprechauns and changelings etc. Terrifying but really interesting at the same time
Just one tiny thing though, the name lachlan is pronounced lock-lan
Crest of my ma"s family is a black demi lion with silver accent & red claws.
This "ritual" makes me want to cry. I love cats and the idea that anyone would hurt them makes me angry and sad. 😢😞
Shut up.
@@staticcharm3808 Someone's triggered.
@Flash Frozen
Me too 💔
ikr 😢
how..... in the name of all that is good could anyone do this kind of thing!?
Yeaahhh... I'd've probably been burned at the stake for trying to keep all the kitties safe.
You and me 🙂☮✌
Me too.
I have a black cat, with a white spot on her chest. And, she used to stand on her hind legs to look at birds out my basement apartment windows! Now that I'm on the sixth floor, she no longer does that.
There is a special place in Hell for those who hurt or murder cats. 👿
indeed...
and for cats who murder dogs
@@MegaMegajennifer ?????
@@elizabethsullivan7176 what? its in the video
@@elizabethsullivan7176 I have many relatives that agrees with you
These are just lovely, I’ve now watched your Ghillie Dhu and Cat Sith videos. Your voice, pace, retelling style, music and accompanying imagery is really refreshing and well done. You’ve made a fan of me.
Thank you for this, my black cat is called Cait Sith. Named for the King of the cats.
King of cats huh
how do you pronounce it?
@@Kittykattarina it is pronounced Cat (with a soft t) Shee
Or awesome Final Fantasy 7 Cait Sith
@@DonkeyFilms that was named and modelled on the fairy cat of Scottish legend!
Fantastic storytelling! I can’t get enough of these fabulous tales, especially when they are so well told. Thanks!
I am loving these stories, ever since I was a young girl I've wanted to travel Scotland and Ireland, and the Orkney isle
I'm from the U.S. with both Scottish & Irish ancestors. When I was around 12 or 13 I was playing in the basement of my house when I saw a spectral cat that walked on it's hind legs.
At first I didn't see it but then from the corner of my eye I spotted a large black cat walking on it's hind legs like a man. It was then that I focused on the beast & when I did it stopped dead in it's tracks, turned & looked at me. The hair on the back of my neck stood up because as it turned it's head to look at me, I could see it's green florescent eyes. They didn't reflect light like a normal cat's. They had a hellish light of their own. It was at this time that I bolted off upstairs with speed.
More please! I love folklore and myths! And the sound of your voice is ......😍💋
Thank you! Will do!
The kellas cat specimen is in my local zooology building! It is quite big compared to my cat and looks quite vicious even stuffed! Great video!
I could have gone my entire life and happily not known about the animal torture in this fairytale.
How horrible.
Never heard of any of this before. Thanks for sharing. Also I really like your editing. Happy Belated Halloween.
Happy Halloween, and thanks for watching
I found out through a family member last year my great grandpa was Scottish. Now I know why I have always felt so.
Thank you for teaching us!
Long live the Highland Tiger.
Ya know, I've been searching for folklore online trying to fill out more Fey type creatures for D&D, and in doing so, I categorized the Nekomata yokai, from Japan as fey, as I probably will with many others from the Kamaitachi to the Kappa. but this video surprised me with how I might be close to the mark with that, and how many similarities there are between the Scottish Cait Sith and the Japanese Nekomata. Namely walking on their hind-legs when they think no one is looking, and jumping over the bodies of the deceased to claim their souls.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful history. I absolutely appriciate this. 🔥🖤🔥
I think I might be the only non British or Scottish person here lol thank you for the video it's great! It really helped me with a writing assignment for school plus it was insanely interesting and easy to understand, I think I'm gonna start studying cryptids/folklore in my free time now. The images are also extremely detailed, interesting, and beautiful!
Glad it helped!
I have a tuxedo cat called Chloe. She looks like she's wearing a black tuxedo and white shirt with white cuffs. She has a white diamond on her forehead and a white chest and throat and the white continues all along her tummy and she has white booties on her black legs. She has white whiskers and eyebrows and bright green eyes. Yoir description of the cat sith reminded me of her although she has much more white in her fur. Tuxedo cats have a dominant black gene and a recessive white gene which is how they get their markings in their fur. She's very sassy.
We used to put a wee dish of milk out every Hallowe'en. I was told it was to bring luck from the black cats and bad luck not to. Now I know where that was fae. Thanks for the video.
My caitsidhe, Little Caitsidhe (she got her name because of her appearance...black with the white at her throat, but she is actually smaller than the average domestic house cat), is a sweetie pie. She stands on her hind legs alot. She is very very vocal. However, she loves to snuggle. Also, if I ask, "can I have a kiss?", she will put her nose to mine.
I will say, should someone attempted to roast my kitties alive, I would skewer the perpetrators myself.
The thing is - modern cat owners know that cats sometimes stand on two legs and 'sing'... Usually if they see another, stranger, cat.
@@batintheattic7293 The thing is, she is the only one doing it. I have 3 cats. The other two talk to me...the sole human in the house. She goes berserk talking and going after things I cannot see. Even the two tabby cats look at her like she's lost her mind.
So would i, i love cats
anyone hurting cats should indeed be skewered.
sounds adorable. :3 whats her breed? ive been looking up Kellas cats and i cant find enough information about them. maybe a mini version would be easier to learn about
My boy Dean is almost 13 and he is all black with a little patch of white on his chest. He's a VERY vocal cat. My little fairy cat!
Well, my cats have definitely stolen my soul because here I am cleaning up cat vomit again...
Thank you for this, I very much appreciated it.
Beautiful video 📸
My great-Aunt always put a saucer of cream on our back porch on Halloween eve. Now I know why! My aunt referred to the Cat Sith as " The Grey Malkin." Also called the Grimalkin in Irish folklore.
Your voice is really relaxing and you’re a really good storyteller loved it!
Once again, you have captivated me. I have a tuxedo,who is quite unique in his ways. You teach so mych about lore and Scotland, truely a magical land. I will always believe in fairies! Thanks agin. I watch your podcast every day and share with my son😊
Very cool 👏
We had a half curly eared cat. She was solid black, but had a white bib. We called her Elle Bella De' Albo. She was a sweet girl to me but everyone else she scratched.
thanks for making this, I wanted to get some insight to my scottish ancestory and this video helped in some small way
I had a cat that fits the cat sith description, but she was one of the sweetest cats I’ve ever known. I named her Blair after the Soul Eater character, and she even took an interest in what other anime I watched with her. Her favorite nickname that I gave her was “little familiar”. She was the best homework buddy that liked to sit on my sewing project bin. Maybe I ended up with a crossbreed cat sith/chat d’argent. 😅
fascinating.
So well done!
Excellent. You know a lot of this.
Well, -this- is going to add a bit of flavor context to a changeling the dreaming based character i've been mulling over for the better part of a decade...
My cat, Id-Bastet, looks just like this cat. She is black with a white splotch on her chest.
Better be extra-nice to her, just in case ;-)
#Subbed and #Shared in my group on fb!
Blessed be🖤🔮🌠
Thanks
my kittie had that .. a white spot on the chest .. i miss my son ...
excellent video
My partner and I found a black kitten coming up 3 yrs ago (Oct 7, 2020). He used to have a little white spot on his chest and I was convinced that he was gonna be a tuxedo but it disappeared…. Perhaps Binx doesn’t want to reveal just how powerful he really is 😆
Da kommt doch auch Helloween her.Danke für s hochladen.
Thank you for watching
So the Cat Sith is a giant Tuxedo Cat? Hmmm I'll never look at my tuxi the same way again.
I'm loving this channel so far, also at 8:52 the picture on the right is from the manga berserk
hope this guy knows how much we appreciate his videos! the work you do is amazing
Thanks a lot, I do really appreciate the fans and how they have supported my work.
So ff7 got cat Sith from here
These pics all look like variations of my tuxedo cat XD good thing I've got catnip in spades.
thanks for explaining this
This is just the video i needed today. Thanks xx
This will be one of those videos that goes unwatched for 5 years then gets 4 million views.
Thanks
I just found this in my recommended video queue today and I cannot tell you how happy I am to have found this channel. I used to live in Scotland and it is so fascinating to learn about my ancestors' culture and history. I hope that this channel get more views.
funny thing in bavaria we have a similar Legend but there its the Wolperthinger and it's more like a Squirel than a cat
Sounds interesting
So that's where World of Warcraft got that from!.
When I was a little kid we lived on a farm and had barn cats. They were mostly wild as they didn't get handled much. One year there was a little black kitchen he had a white spot on his chest. He got sick. His eyes were gunked shut and he rattled when he breathed. So I took him into the house. I tried to sneak him up to my room so he would warm. I'm allergic to cats. My father heard the kitten meowing and took a look at him. He didn't think it was going to make it but gave it a shot of medicine anyways. He actually gave it way more then it should of had. He figured the kitten would be dead by morning and this way would be more humane. A few hours latter the kitten woke up and was tare assing around the living room. He did lose an eye but otherwise was fine. He gut big during the summer and soon ran the old Tom cat off and took over. He was my buddy. We would go sledding off the calf barn during the winter. During the summer we would explore the farm. Lots of cool places a little kid and a cat could hide on 20 archers. I miss that cat. He never acted like other cats. How many cats would willing jump on someone's lap after the first time of riding a sled off a snow packed roof. Or in a small metal wagon down a hillside. He only clawed me once. And I had almost gotten us killed. Anyways this reminds me of him. So thank you.
Catchy story.
In Ireland a black cat is considered good luck as are most black animals. But a black cat with a white mark on his chest and neck may be seen as a Cat Sidhe.
Black and White cats are still kept away from the dead at a Wake as to prevent it from devouring the soul of the dead.
Nice to see our Celtic folklore being shown off in such great quality
I truly hope folk traditions such as this aren't used as an excuse for animal abuse... At least in the States, sometimes hapless black cats are abused, injured and killed by fools who have absorbed ignorant, Christianity-derived legends which they think excuses their behavior. 🥺
Uh, nothing in this story said anything about Christianity, sounded kinda pagan to me.
@@robinrinsmith Oh yes, but, some of the folk, at least hereabouts, who are cat-negative, use Christianity as an excuse. 🤷
@@mdlahey3874 I've never heard of Christian's hurting black cats. I have heard of ignorant people claiming to be satanists hurting them as part of uneducated "rituals".
@@mdlahey3874 Satanists are the ones who hurt cats. Not Christians. You sound ignorant and an anti-Christan bigot.
Those aren’t Christians. Satanists/necromancer use and believe in “Familiars”. Cats are a common Familiar. All those of God do not fear these claims because they know they have no power. Satanists also sacrifice animals.
You clearly know nothing about the word of God. Just because someone says they are of God and know his word doesn’t make it so. Your comment is just as ignorant as those so called Christians.
My black cat Luna has white furs on her chest, she also “sings” (meows) to herself a lot
That was a great video. Thanks.
beautiful, thank you
Beautiful video! Thanks!
Having stumbled across the Taghairm a long time ago in my own research, when he brings it up at 3:56, I said outloud:
"Oooo....what you're about to hear, kids, is rather fucked up".
She is called Catsidhe in Gaeilge as well.
A brief story of my big cat sighting.
1984 and i was 16, away fishing with pals who were all older than me, except one, my best friend ay the time. Unsuccessful where we were, we decided to head a few miles further south east of our fishing hole. A beautiful summer morning and as we neared our final destination, we saw a btight light about the size of a football. It was shining brighter than the sun and floating above the ground about 2ft. Next thing we saw was a monster black cat, easily the size of a large dog. To say we craped ourselves was an understatement!
The cat had come over a slight rise in a hillside, about 200yrds away. They came side by side and honestly looked like they were out for a stroll together. Definitely a cat, tail straight out and just strolling as the ball of light changed from a ball to a half moon, quarter moon and back to a ball again beside it.
Myself and my friend ran closer along a tree line beside the hill they were on. Must have got to within 40yrds of them when suddenly they stopped dead together and the cat looked our way. At the same time the ball of light faded out rapidly and the cat put its head to the ground like going into a hole/den... but there were none once we got to where they were. Both just vanished with the cat head first. Absolutely true.
Since then, as an adult man, i recently photographed cat prints in the sandy mud near to that location and although big feline prints, they couldn't belong to that cat as it was massive, certainly not a Panther as it was twice the size of one but definitely cat prints.
I don't suppose the big cst is alive now but, being mysterious in nature, who knows, could be another one, perhaps a young one.
Since those days ive seen a bounding, Wallybe/Kangaroo thing with wings, with fuxxxng wings!!! It swooped in front of my vehicle about 4am onr day, bounced along in front of my artic truck for maybe 7-9 hops, jumped up to the left side of a single tracked road and d away
Sorry so short, i must get driving back to Scotland now and big hands on small phones make spelling mistakes lol. Thanks 👍
Great story, a lot of people have seen large cats all over scotland, many thought it was a panther or at least thats what they described. I have no idea about your winged marsupial haha
Thanks for the good work
My cat had those same markings... he did oddly vanish one day unfortunately...
There are still some people who try this ritual on Halloween and if I find one they'll be sorry.
This is why you NEED to keep cats indoors all October
This is also why shelters, even in the USA, do not adopt out black cats after a certain point come fall.
@@osakarose5612 TRUE! And that's not even mentioning what the cats do to the other animals outside. Keep them indoors!!
I ain't a-scairt o' no Cat Sith! All you need to do is give 'em some kibble. They melt and love you forever.
One of my asshole neighbors had an unpleasant reputation for capturing and torturing cats, and when one of my husband's cats (a fairly large female with a white spot on her chestand a ferocious disposition that we called Rosie) went missing my husband (who also had a particularly ferocious disposition) went after our neighbor. The cat returned a few days later.
Poor cats,such a horrific death.
The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities that some consider to be... unnatural
Wait.. I was led to believe that _all_ cats are magical.
Oh, kitty! Have you been telling me _lies?!?_
Catnip was used to "distract"? Yeah, I'd assume a cat said "oh, whatever you do, don't get me hIgH! I have a job interview this week.. oh, alrighty, maybe just a little bit of the nippy."
By the weekend, kitty is dancing in the clubs & singing (off-key, of course) in karaoke bars, all night _every_ night.
The story is told down the family as more of a warning now days
Your a good story teller. KUDO'S
That's an interesting tale.
Ha, Dresden Files brought me here, Cat Sith and the Winter Knight.
Yes!!!!
Once about midnight I was on a dark country road and noticed ahead in the distance.
There was 3 dark creatures crossing the road, I thought they were raccoons , they were solid black and had russled fur sticking up almost in points, it was strange to see them.
Oh darn,my black cat has the markings of a Cat Sith.🤔
Legendary cat.Spirit of spring.
Not gona lie, a cat with rams horns looks pretty cool but they like to nuzzle a lot so I don’t know about that
Great video. Thank you. Do you answer questions? I read that black cat sightings are considered fortunate in Scottland. Is that true, in part or in whole? Thank you so much
I can definitely try to answer your questions. In the modern day I have never personally heard that black cats are lucky or unlucky, in scotland specificaly. In the past black cats were respected by many as they were thought to belong to/be the sith or gods.Offerings were commonly given to the sith, but in general they were feared, the offering was not to gain their favor, but to avoid their wrath. So in some ways offereing milk or food to a black cat might bring you fortune, harming them would bring the ire of the spirits/sith,so would be avoided generally (things like the Taghairm, were seen as horrific, even in there own time, in a similar vein as summoning demons or dealing with the devil). Hope this ramble helps, thanks for watching.
I've been told that you should never chase away a strange black cat if it enters your house because it has brought the luck of the house with it and will take it away with them unless allowed to leave on peace, of its own decision
@@kellysouter4381 thank you for the comment! I will keep that in mind should it ever happen. I had feril kittens born in the backyard. And I adopted one. I tried to get the others neutered but mom would not allow. Cats are fascinating.
Ah, nice one. My sister in laws family live in the Highlands, I'll ask them to keep an eye out.
I'd love to visit the kelpies in scotland. I'd love to hear stories about these creatures. I adore horses so I would probably fall prey to a Kelpie. I dont know much about them, would love to hear stories about them. 🥰💫
I have a few videos on kelpies if you want to learn more about them.
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It's almost time to put out the milk for the Cat Sidhe.....Samhain looms. We remember here in the USA. :)
I like my resident feline. It is funny hiw the two black ones who feel separate and prideful, feel October's end was their shine time. Cute
Nice video, but I think the one on the left at 15:00 is a jaguarundi not a kellas cat. It's a type of wildcat from the Americas that comes in a broad range of brown colors including the very dark color you see in this image. Look at the nose shape, length of the tail, and the ear shape. All those are distinct features of the jaguarundi. Plus the lighter pattern around the eyes is also typical of the jaguarundi and it's overall build seems consistent with a jaguarundi.
Thanks for the info, I must say I don't know much about wildcats haha. 👍
@@LiathWolf
That's okay! I don't know a whole lot about specific ones either. It's really just that one because I was doing some light research on animals from that area and it caught my eye. Mostly because of how long the tail was and how much the color can differ. There's another type of wildcat called the bay cat which also has a lot of different possible coat colors but I'd say even more so than the jaguarundi. It's very interesting to me how a lot of people will look at other species and think all the individuals look the same, yet there is genetic diversity in them too. The coat color is just one of the most obvious signs of that. If you compare different pictures you'll start to pick up on differences in facial anatomy or even build. When I was looking to adopt a cat I noticed that there was quite a bit of variation in things like eye shape, how far apart they are, ear size, muzzle shape, etc.... Saw one gray cat that had a rectangular upper lip. It's something that rather interests me because then you consider that the animals can probably pick up really easy on these kinds of differences that humans aren't used to seeing. And then you wonder if our pets might have trouble telling our faces apart.
I always called my Cat a little witch...it seems I am Not so far off 🤗
Karma is a hellish bitch for who ever tortures and murders cats.