Note 34 — II.—BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH.
Reading edition
A cat was not permitted to come near a corpse in Scotland. Brand’s Antiquities, Vol. II. p. 233. “All fire is extinguished where a corpse is kept, and it is reckoned so ominous for a dog or a cat to pass over it, that the poor animal is killed without mercy.”—Pennant’s Tour in Scotland. ↑