Black Cat. Culture: Japanese. Artist: Enoki Toshiyuki .
While medieval Europe associated black cats with bad luck, the Japanese associated them (kuro neko) with good fortune and prosperity.
What’s more, during the Edo Period, people believed that black cats could help cure diseases like tuberculosis. According to popular belief at the time, a tuberculosis patient would hug a black cat to their chest or lap while receiving a traditional Japanese treatment on their back known as "Okyū" (Moxibustion -- a therapy akin to acupuncture that involves burning dried mugwort on specific points of the skin).
The logic behind this ritual was that as the moxibustion stimulated the back, the black cat in the patient's lap would act like a spiritual sponge, absorbing the relentless disease and negative energy from within to heal the person.
People also believed that a black cat's glowing eyes in the dark and its mystical aura would scare off the evil spirits and negative energies responsible for the illness. In short, sharing a home with a black cat meant securing protection for both the household and its owner.
“No summer flowers are half so sweet
As those of early Spring” — Old English saying
Periwinkle, coltsfoot, primrose, snowdrops, cherry blossom, daffodil, Balkan anemone, Siberian squill, hollowroot and lesser celandine — found for the final #TheWinter10. #WildflowerHour
It’s amazing that when I tell organic eating yoga loving Telsa driving liberals to take Vitamin D for covid symptoms they look at me with disgust that I’d suggest anything other than a big pharma product.
Thank you for joining our virtual protest today #familycourt. See you in the new year Wed 4 January 2023 outside Central Family Court, WC1V and on twitter. End the secrecy! OPEN the courts! STOP taking children from their mothers! #PovertyIsNotNeglect#CareIncomeNow
I can’t stop thinking about the decision to overturn Roe vs Wade. The penalty for getting an abortion is more than for rape. Land of the free…for men to do what the hell they want without any consequence #America#RoeVsWade
FDA estimate 34 ICU admissions for myocarditis for every 1 million vaccinated 5-11 yr old.
JCVI estimate 1 covid ICU admisssion prevented for every 2 million vaccinated 5-11 yr old.
Are the paediatric ICUs ready for what's coming?
Press conference ends with only a few questions. Minister @FP_Champagne says several times that “if you look at the bill…” in response to specific questions about the privacy bill. Canadians can’t look at the bill. It still isn’t public.
@EnjoyTheSilenz1@tmcdonnell4 @LaReinaTormenta @DrEricDing They aim to keep us occupied with pandemics until we are completely broken and under digital IDs and the WHO Treaty.
@EnjoyTheSilenz1@tmcdonnell4 @LaReinaTormenta @DrEricDing You never wondered why they are talking about this now? Why all of sudden were there no significant viral pandemics since the Spanish flu and now there is yet another one just as we finally break free from covid tyranny?