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Mummified cat

Cabinet of Curiosities

The desiccated (mummified) cat seen in the Cabinet of Curiosities was found walled up in a local building.

Many cats have been found walled in and were probably put into a newly built home after death to ward off evil spirits or as a good luck charm.