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Why Do Nigerians Dislike Cats?

When We're In The Woods, My Grandma Would Say, "fear Me, Fear My Family, You Can't Wish My Family Any Bad."
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When we're in the woods, my grandma would say, "fear me, fear my family, you can't wish my family any bad."

Grandma, are you telling me you understand what that beautiful bird is singing? "I don't, can't you see it's singing so close to us like a human being? I've seen a lot, when they sing like that something terrible happens."

But is there a connection between the incident and the birds? And if there is, who is to blame, the birds or the bad incident or the person who heard them sing?

"Victor, they said you're stubborn, they also said you ask questions like a man and if you try that with me I will whip your ass."

Sometimes we couldn't even say, oh what a cool, fresh air, the seniors would damn us, "don't say that, that is a bad breeze."

The worst that could happen was a cats cry.

There was nothing scarier than to hear a cat cry at night, we were innocent kids but the elderly made us believe it's a bad omen for cats to cry like babies at night.

That of a dog was worse, a dog rarely cries but when they do it's like a human being, that was certain that something terrible would happen, valuable member(s) of the community might die.

All of these miss and hit beliefs were passed down from generation to generation without questioning the source.

Fortunately, my generation won't get the memo and when they hear birds sing or cats cry they would read no absurd meaning to it.

These cats and dogs that were around us weren't considered pets, they were poorly fed and I'm sure they were crying out of hunger or frustration as they mostly hunt their own food but my people believed they were either bewitched or foreseeing evil.

Cats are like humans in certain ways, it might be difficult for humans to accurately interpret every of their behaviour.

They foresee danger. They attack or give hints when, for example, a snake is lurking around.

And other times they act in weird ways that people interpret wrongly and attribute it to witchcraft.

Many Nigerians have cats as pets in this age, and some don't share the negativity attributed to cats.

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