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Mythology By Sydney Hansen

• WARNING THESE MAY NOT BE TRUE!!!!
• These stories become traditions within cultures,
  passed from the lips of an elder to the wondering
  ears of the young, living on and on. There really
  is no better way to learn a culture's mythology
  than to be lucky enough to hear the stories live
  from a good storyteller. A good storyteller could
  be a grandparent or other relative. Sometimes
  storytellers visit schools, museums, or libraries
  to pass along their legends. The kinds of stories
  that follow contributed to a kind of hysteria
  about Some Myths and Legends through the ages.

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Dragons

• Lets start with some of the most well known
  Mythological animals on the planet.
  
• DRAGONS!!!!
• Some people believe Dragons are not real. But
  some books say Seeing ISNT believing, and its
  true.
  

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Fire Dragon

• FIRE DRAGON The Fire Dragon is the most
  extroverted and competitive Dragon. He tends to
  push too hard and expects a lot from everyone.
  His criticisms are objective and he has the
  ability to arouse massive popular support. His
  insatiable ambition can make him short-tempered
  and intolerant. He is an empire builder who needs
  to master his less favorable traits and learn how
  to communicate more humbly with people as
  individuals.

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Earth Dragon

• EARTH DRAGON The Earth Dragon is a quieter, more
  reflective Dragon, He will be appreciative of
  other's opinions even if he fails to agree with
  them. He is reasonable in his approach to
  problems and his leadership is less dictatorial.
  He is not given to outbursts of temper, but at
  the same time demands respect. He knows the value
  of cooperation and is more diplomatic than the
  other Dragons. He is ambitious, but his
  initiatives are less hurried and more carefully
  thought out.

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Wood Dragon

• WOOD DRAGON The Wood Dragon is creative,
  imaginative, and inquisitive. He is both a
  thinker and a doer and is capable of brilliant
  new concepts. His every move is guided by sound
  logic. His drive and ambition allow him to put
  many of his ideas into practice, nevertheless
  this Dragon is capable of concealing his
  domination and tries not to offend. He will even
  compromise if it is advantages. Although not as
  self-centered as other Dragons, he is still
  outspoken and fearless when challenged.

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Metal Dragon

• METAL DRAGON The Metal Dragon is the most
  strong-willed Dragon. He is inflexible, unbending
  and combative. He gives little regard to the
  feelings of others. This ruthlessness can result
  in a rapid rise to a position of authority, but
  often at the cost of destroying important
  relationships. It is futile to attempt to
  convince him that certain things are simply
  undoable. He will go it alone if he can't gain
  support. He succeeds because he refuses to accept
  failure.

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Water Dragon

• WATER DRAGON The Water Dragon is less selfish
  and opinionated than the other Dragons. He is
  more inhibited and less power-hungry. He can
  accept defeat without recriminations. He makes a
  good negotiator as he knows when, where, and how
  to apply pressure. He has a tendency to be
  over-optimistic and needs to learn how to
  relinquish what is unfeasible so that he can
  concentrate his energies on the most rewarding
  endeavors.

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Unicorns

• Now lets go on to another well known
  Mythological creature..
  
• UNICORNS!!
• Some Unicorns have been forced into hiding
  or turning in to regularHORSES!!

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Unicorns

• The unicorn is just one well-known
  example of such a mythological creature. Said to
  have magical powers in healing and the bringing
  of luck, the unicorn was a bearded horse with a
  single horn and cloven hooves (like a deer). The
  horn was prized for its ability to counteract all
  poisons with which it came in contact. Legend
  says that only those most pure in heart and soul
  may be approached by them. The unicorn is found
  in the legends of many cultures, including Irish,
  Persian, Greek, Indian, and Chinese!

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The EL CHUBRACABRA

• The El Chubracabra changes its appearance in
  every culture.
  
• Like in Mexico he shows as a big green hairy
  monkey!
  
• No-one has ever seen the real El Chubracabra, but
  we know its out there somewhere.
  

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The EL CHUBRACABRA

• The many different Native American tribes
  have the belief that animals in particular, along
  with weather and other elements of nature,
  possess particular qualities of power and
  knowledge. The myth lore of each and all things
  serves to show individuals their relationship to
  this world and other lives. The Raven and the
  Crow is a legend told by the Skagit tribe of
  Washington State, warning people to beware of
  insincere flattery. You should bring yourself to
  read this entertaining tale with a real
  moral-to-the-story!

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The Chough

• In Cornwall, England, the legend says that King
  Arthur's spirit lives on as the chough, a black
  bird with red beak and red claws waiting to
  return as leader in human form. ('Nyns Yu Marow
  Myghtern Arthur.' Translation 'Not Dead Is The
  Mighty Arthur.')

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The Pterodactyl

• Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? ... No, It's a LOT
  Scarier!
  
• We've all heard the old tales and legends of
  dragons ... and you probably have heard of the
  prehistoric relatives of birds, the Pterodactyl
  and Archaeopteryx. Could they still exist?
• Crypto zoologists have puzzled over this for a
  long time. Legends of Pterodactyl sittings in the
  Southwest date back more than 100 years even
  before scientists had given a name to the
  supposedly extinct reptile!

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The Pterodactyl

• One of the earliest recorded incidents occurred
  on April 26, 1890, when the Tombstone Epitaph (a
  local newspaper) reported that two cowboys had
  discovered and shot down a creature described
  as a "winged dragon" which resembled a
  pterodactyl, only MUCH larger. The cowboys said
  its wingspan was 160 feet, and that its body was
  more than four feet wide and 92 feet long. The
  cowboys cut off the end of the wing to prove the
  existence of the creature, but the rest of the
  body disappeared. Apparently, so did the wingtip.
  
• A century later (September 14, 1983), a paramedic
  named James Thompson was driving alongside the
  Pecos River Gorge of West Texas when a creature
  buzzed his car. Thompson said it had "a five- or
  six-foot wingspan and a rough gray hide." Sound
  like a pterodactyl? Sure does! Legends have
  sprung up locally all along the Rio Grande of a
  really big bird that matches Thompson's
  description.
• And there's more! (This one is REALLY creepy!) In
  1990, a young woman from Mesa, Arizona, awoke at
  night to find that half of her ear had been
  bitten off yikes! Panicked, and with her pillow
  covered in blood, she stood up to see what she
  could only describe as a "flying reptile" winging
  its way across her lawn. Mesa police could only
  say "there was just no logical explanation" for
  what had happened ...

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Vampires

• Onward to Vampires!
• Bloody, Gut Ripping, All time cool Monsters.
• VAMPIRES!!!
• I VANT TO SUCK VOR BLOOD!!!
• Haaa Haaa!

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Vampires

• Speaking of vampires, what about vampire bats?
  Now there's another poor little creature accused
  of some pretty scary stuff! The vampire bat has
  been portrayed in horror stories as attacking
  people and sucking their blood. EEECH! Oh yeah,
  and vampires will frequently turn into big bats
  with glowing eyes as they stalk their prey, or to
  make a fast getaway.
• Actually, the vampire is truly a global creature,
  with myths coming out of cultures around the
  world. To this day, stories flow from Africa,
  Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United
  States, about the dead rising from their graves
  during the night to drink the blood of the
  living. The ancient Assyrian "Ekiminu" was
  half-vampire and half-ghost. Nowhere, however, is
  there more vampire folklore than from the Slavic
  gypsy community where dogs, horses, sheep and
  snakes all had the potential to become vampires!
• Vampires could be made in a variety of ways such
  as by practicing witchcraft, or if a cat or other
  animal jumps over a dead body. Vampires were
  supposed to be able to take the form of a bat or
  other animal, or even a mist. They were thought
  to be able to control creatures like rats and
  wolves.
• Although most all vampires sleep in coffins or
  graves, they were supposed to need to return to
  the earth from their homeland each night.
  Vampires could not cross running water, see their
  reflection in a mirror, enter a place uninvited,
  and could not tolerate daylight or the symbol of
  the Christian crucifix. One way to deter a
  vampire is to scatter seeds upon the ground
  reportedly, the vampire would become so involved
  in counting every single seed that they would
  either lose interest in the victim, or be caught
  counting as the sun came up and destroyed them.
  Garlic is popular as a vampire repellent. A
  vampire could be exterminated by fire, cutting
  off its head, or by driving a stake through its
  heart. A less violent but perhaps more risky way
  to destroy a vampire is to steal his left sock,
  fill it with stones and throw it in a river ...
  You can try it if you want, but we don't
  recommend it!

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Protectors

• Many legends seek to explain weather and other
  natural phenomena. In the story "God's Watchdog
  of the Iwamatsus in Sumon Shrine", Japanese
  villagers are warned to be leave their homes as
  soon as possible upon hearing abnormal sounds
  which are a sign of an impending landslide.
• Long, long ago, there was a small village in the
  Tochio district of Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
  Every night for a week a wolf barked in and
  around the village, frightening the inhabitants
  enough that they ran away in fear for their
  lives. The very next night, a landslide
  completely destroyed the village but no one died.
  The next morning the people of the village came
  together at the shrine of the Iwamatsus which was
  the only building in the village not damaged. One
  of them cried, "Look! The legs of the wooden
  God's watchdog are muddy! That 'barking wolf '
  must have been this wooden dog. God sent him to
  us as His messenger and saved our lives from the
  disaster!"

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Pink Dolphins In Black Water - An Amazon Legend

• The exotic appearance of the dolphins in
  Amazonian's rivers has led to stories that have
  become part of the mythology of Brazil. One
  legend tells about a man called Bufeo Colorado,
  believed to be from a race of gods who dwell in
  beautiful underwater cities. Bufeo Colorado would
  leave the river at times, taking the form of a
  man with one exception. Although always
  impeccably dressed, he wears a hat which he never
  removes. It is said that if a person catches him
  sleeping, and is bold enough to remove his hat,
  Bufeo Colorado has what looks like a blow hole on
  top of his head! Bufeo Colorado always leaves
  before morning, and if followed he can be seen
  diving into the Amazon where he again becomes a
  dolphin. If one of these gods lures a human down
  into the water, the human is said to be so
  enchanted that he or she never wants to return to
  land.
• This intriguing legend has a basis in fact
  "bufeo Colorado" is the Latin name of dolphins
  native to the Amazon Basin. In English, "bufeo
  Colorado" means "funny color" because of the pink
  appearance of the dolphins caused by blood
  vessels directly under their skin. These dolphins
  are found in the Pacaya and Alfaro Rivers which
  flow into the Amazon. The rivers are called
  "black water" because they are stained the color
  of tea by the tannins seeping from decaying
  vegetation in the rainforest.

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Garms

• Really, Really Bad Dogs!
• Talk about bad dogs! These dogs will make your
  canines look like real angels! The monstrous
  hound "Garm" has four eyes and his chest is
  drenched with blood. He lives in a cave and
  guards the entrance to Helheim, the Norse realm
  of the dead. Garm is often equated with the wolf
  "Fenrir". In Norse mythology Fenrir is a gigantic
  and terrible monster in the shape of a wolf. The
  gods learned of a prophecy which stated that the
  wolf and his family would one day be responsible
  for the destruction of the world. To read the
  story of how the Norse gods tried to restrain
  Fenrir,wait for the next slide. Another story
  that you will find listed is a very scary old
  English legend which takes place in a castle
  haunted by the mysterious Black Dog.

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Saving the World from Fenrir

• In Norse mythology "Fenrir" is a gigantic and
  terrible monster in the shape of a wolf. One
  legend has it that the Norse gods learned of a
  prophecy which stated that the wolf and his
  family would one day be responsible for the
  destruction of the world. In order to prevent
  this, they caught the wolf when he was still a
  pup and locked him in a cage where he was fed by
  the god of war, Tyr.

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Saving the World from Fenrir

• Of course, Fenrir grew up ... When the gods saw
  how huge he had grown, they decided that they had
  to find a way to make him harmless. They decided
  to trick him by challenging his pride, telling
  him he was weak, and that he would not be able to
  break free if he was chained. Fenrir accepted the
  challenge, and allowed himself to be chained.
  Unfortunately, he was so powerful that he managed
  to break the strongest chains as if they were
  cobwebs!
• After that, the gods knew that they would need a
  magic chain. They ordered a chain made that would
  be strong enough to hold the wolf. The result was
  a soft, thin ribbon called "Gleipnir". It was
  incredibly strong, despite what its size and
  appearance might suggest. The ribbon was
  fashioned of six strange elements the noise made
  by the footfall of a cat, the roots of a
  mountain, a woman's beard, the breath of fishes,
  the sinews of a bear, and a bird's spittle. Again
  the gods tried to trick Fenrir, only this time he
  saw how thin the chain was, and said there was no
  pride in breaking such a weak chain!
• Eventually, however, he agreed thinking that
  otherwise his strength and courage would be
  doubted and the gods chained the wolf with
  Gleipnir. No matter how hard Fenrir struggled, he
  could not break free from this thin ribbon.
  Furious, he vowed to eventually break free and to
  wreak the havoc that was prophesied.

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The Legend of the Black Dog

• Long ago in England there was a castle which was
  always guarded by soldiers. The guard room was
  just inside the great entrance of the castle and
  a passage led from it, through one of the old
  churches, to the Captain of the Guard's room. At
  the end of every day, the soldiers took turns
  locking the castle gates and carrying the key
  through the dark passage back to the Captain.
• About this time, a big black dog with rough curly
  hair would be seen sometimes in one room, next
  time in a different room. He did not belong to
  anyone there and no one knew anything about him.
  But every night, when the candles were lighted in
  the guard room and the fire was burning bright,
  he would come down the dark passage and lay down
  by the hearth. He made no sound, but lay there
  until the break of day, when he would get up and
  disappear into the passage.
• At first the soldiers were terrified of him, but
  after a while they got used to the sight of him
  and lost some of their fear, though they still
  looked upon him as something more than mortal.
  While he was in the room the men were quiet and
  no bad words were spoken. When the hour came to
  carry the key to the Captain, two men would
  always go together. No man would face the dark
  passage alone.
• One night, however, one foolish fellow had drunk
  more than was good for him and he began to brag
  that he was not afraid of the dog. It was not his
  turn to take the keys, but to show how brave he
  was he said he would take them alone. He dared
  the dog to follow him.
• "Let him come!" he shouted, laughing. "I'll see
  whether he be dog or devil!" His friends were
  terrified and tried to hold him back, but he
  snatched up the keys and went out into the
  passage. The black dog slowly got up from before
  the fire and followed him. There was a deathly
  silence in the guard room, no sound was heard but
  the dashing of the waves on the steep rocks of
  the castle islet.
• After a few minutes, there came from the dark
  passage the most unearthly screams and howls. The
  soldiers looked at each other in horror, but not
  one dared to move to see what was going on.
  Presently they heard steps, and the rash fellow
  came back into the room. His face was pale and
  twisted with fear. He spoke not a word, then or
  afterwards. In three days he was dead, and nobody
  ever knew what had happened to him that fearful
  night ... The black dog has never been seen
  again!

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It Might Not Be a Fish, But It's Swimming Toward
Us ... !

• There's something in the water! ... It isn't
  "Jaws", in fact we don't know what it is! The
  world's oceans, seas, lakes and rivers hold many
  mysteries and, according to persistent reports,
  many unidentified, uncatchable creatures.

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The Loch Ness

• There have been numerous reports of serpent or
  dragon-like critters in the waters of Scotland's
  Loch Ness, Canada's Lake Okanagan and in the
  United States the mid-Atlantic region of
  Chesapeake Bay, New York State's Lake Champlain,
  Alkali Lake in Nebraska, Alaska's Illiamna Lake,
  and the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington
  State. Some of these creatures have been seen for
  hundreds of years and occasionally people report
  having seen multiple creatures at once, leading
  to the theory that there are actual families of
  unknown species which are reproducing and
  continuing to startle, amaze and fascinate those
  who catch a glimpse or the rare photo or
  videotape of them.
• Scotland's "Nessie" may be the most known of all
  these unknown water creatures. The long water
  serpent with the three humps and a head like
  "Dino the Dinosaur" is similar to one reported to
  be in Lake Champlain. The Chesapeake Bay's
  "Chessie" is similar. Eyewitnesses say Chessie is
  a long, dark serpent-like creature, anywhere from
  25-30 feet long with a humped back. Chessie is
  alternately described as being dark brown or dark
  gray. Another "large, dark colored animal with a
  long neck and a humped back" lives in Canada's
  Lake Okanagan. And yet another dinosaur-like
  creature was reported to be in Washington State's
  Strait of Juan de Fuca. Like Nessie, it had three
  humps, but this one was described as also having
  a snake-like head and a floppy mane!
• Far away from North America and Europe, South
  Africans in a remote village are reportedly
  living in fear of a man-eating river creature
  said to have characteristics of both a fish and a
  horse. The agricultural minister in the Eastern
  Cape region told the legislature that the beast
  had gobbled up seven victims in the Umzimhlava
  River. Some locals are recalling the "mamlambo"
  which is supposed to be a beast from Xhosa tribal
  mythology which is said to live in rivers and
  provide great wealth if caught ... Just don't let
  it get you first!

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Werewolves and Werewhats?!

• Those poor wolves! ... The dog's cousin, the
  wolf, has inspired lots of horrific tales through
  the ages probably borne of a deep fear of
  wolves which have been thought to be unnaturally
  cruel, ferocious, treacherous, and to have huge
  appetites. One of the most known legends based on
  the wolf is that of the "werewolf". A werewolf is
  a human being that changes into a wolf (usually
  the result of an evil curse).

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Werewolves

• The werewolf is the most common "were" creature,
  but there are others that are less known! In a
  place called Wallachia there were weredogs.
  Mexico and Peru had weretigers, were-eagles and
  wereserpents ... However, Abyssinia and Egypt had
  the biggest collection of were-animals, including
  werehyenas, wereleopards, weretigers,
  werejaguars, werelions, were-elephants,
  werecrocodiles, were-alligators, and even
  weresharks!
• Most such legends, though, are about werewolves
  ... But, like lots of other yarns passed on
  through the ages, werewolf stories vary greatly.
  For example, some say werewolves are just men
  wearing a wolves' heads but others say a
  werewolf is a man who turns partially, or all the
  way, into a wolf. Werewolves are usually men, but
  can also be women and children. Being a werewolf
  can be voluntary, but not always ... It can also
  be hereditary ... or it can occur as a
  punishment, such as an evil spell, or curse ...
  or even as the unfortunate victim of another
  werewolf.

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Werewolves

• There have been many scary old movies made about
  werewolves you must have seen at least ONE! ...
  You know the story some poor guy stumbling
  through a misty old graveyard ... under the light
  of a full moon ... suddenly, tufts of hair begin
  to grow on the back of his hands ... then, fangs
  sprout from his mouth ... and the half-crazed
  man-creature lifts his head up, glaring at the
  moon ... and then he ... HOOOOOWWWLS!
• It is said that men born on Christmas Eve become
  werewolves, as do murdered men. There are a
  number of other ways a person can become a
  werewolf, including drinking from haunted streams
  or pools, or out of the footprint of a savage
  wolf. You can also become a werewolf by eating
  the flesh of a wild wolf, or by sleeping outside
  on a summer's night, on a Wednesday or Friday, as
  the light of the full moon shines on your face.
• Werewolves in Germany, Greece, and Serbia are
  thought to become vampires after death. Romanian
  legend has it that not only did werewolves become
  vampires after death, but vampires could also
  turn themselves into werewolves. As early as 970,
  a man named Baianus was thought to be able to
  turn himself into a wolf. It was said of Baianus,
  "He changed himself into a Wolf so often as he
  list, or into the likenesses of any other beast,
  or in such sort that he could not be discerned of
  any man."

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Werewolves

• Around 1200, an Irish priest met a wolf which
  requested that the priest accompany him back to
  his dying wife in a nearby village. The village
  natives had been cursed for their wickedness by
  St. Natalis, "and were compelled to take two by
  two a wolf-shape for seven years, returning to
  their own form at the end of that time." The
  priest gave the final sacrament only when the
  she-wolf moved her skin down a little, proving
  that she was indeed an old woman.
• Claudia Gaillard was one of the hundreds of
  unfortunate souls brought to trial by the
  witch-finder Henry Boguet. According to
  witnesses, she was seen behind a bush assuming
  the form of a wolf without a tail. For this great
  sin, she was tortured but according to witnesses
  no one ever saw her shed a single tear. Claudia
  was then burned to death at the stake.

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Werewolves

• In 1589, Peter Stubb had one of the most famous
  werewolf trials in history. After being stretched
  on the rack, Stubb confessed to having practiced
  black magic since he was twelve years old. He
  claimed the devil had given him a magical belt
  which enabled him to change into the likeness of
  a wolf with large eyes that shone like fire in
  the night, a wide mouth with sharp teeth, a huge
  body and mighty paws. To turn back into his human
  form, all Stubb had to do was remove the belt.
  For twenty-five years, Stubb had been a
  self-described "insatiable bloodsucker" who ate
  goats, lambs, sheep, men, women, and children.
  Stubb was finally caught when hunters ran him
  down in his wolf form. He foolishly took off his
  belt and was recognized. Peter Stubb was
  sentenced to a very terrible death.
• There is the 17th century case a 13 year-old boy
  who reportedly turned himself into a werewolf. He
  admitted to some young women that he wore a wolf
  skin and described eating dogs, sheep and even
  people. He allegedly told a story of how he sold
  his soul to the devil. The boy was imprisoned in
  a Franciscan Friary in Bordeaux where he would
  run around on all fours, eat garbage and
  generally act like a wolf.

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Black Cat Ghost Stories

• The room he sleeps in used to be his sister's
  room. She had been begging him for a long time to
  trade rooms and he thought it was because he had
  the bigger room. He went along with the trade
  anyway, but now every once in a while he will
  wake up in the middle of the night, look up on
  the bookcase and see a pair of cat eyes looking
  at him. This isn't so strange, except that he
  sleeps with the door and windows closed, so
  there's no way for a cat to get in and no light
  for its eyes to reflect!

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Story 2

• Finally, the same family had another cat when the
  writer was young. This cat was also very loved
  and used to like to sleep on the writer's back.
  Eventually, this cat was also put to sleep and
  deeply mourned by its owner. A few years later,
  as the writer would be falling asleep, he would
  feel the weight of a cat on his back right
  where the pet cat used to sleep. Looking back,
  there would be no cat to be seen but the weight
  would still be there!

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Story 3

• The same person tells the story of a time, later,
  when he got up in the middle of the night to go
  to the bathroom. Near the bathroom sat a cat
  blocking the doorway. The writer bent down to pet
  the cat and it disappeared right before his eyes!
  This was a spot where the pet cat frequently used
  to spend time.

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Story 4

• Another Internet ghost story teller also believes
  animals, like humans, can be ghosts. He tells the
  story of his family's old cat which became sick.
  Because the cat was in such pain, the family
  chose to put the cat to sleep. The first night
  was especially hard for the family and they were
  very sad about losing their cherished pet, but
  that night as the story teller was lying in bed,
  the cat walked right through the door! She was
  healthy and young looking again! The cat also
  visited another family member that night maybe
  to say good-bye, but maybe not ...

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Story 5

• At other times, when he has been in the house
  alone, he looks up occasionally from what he is
  doing to find a black cat sitting and staring at
  him. The family does have three cats ... but none
  of them are black! The black cat has also been
  seen by his mother and even his dog will "chase"
  the black cat but none of the family's real
  cats.

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