CAT NIGHTS COMMENCE. August 17 brings us what are known as the Cat Nights, a brief period when cats are said to be particularly yowly. Is that so? We’ll have to ask Margaret, since she’s the cat-woman. Me, I’ve got the dog. “Cat Nights” is a term that comes to us from a time when many people believed in witches, and when it was thought that while a witch could turn into a cat and regain herself eight times, on the ninth time, August 17, she couldn’t change back. The result of this tradition is our saying, “A cat has nine lives.” How do I know this? I write and record the daily almanac piece entitled The Naturalists’s Datebook, heard exclusively on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Sirius 112/XM 157. Listen up.
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