Hundreds of years ago, across Europe, people afraid of witchcraft would seal cats inside the walls of their homes, believing they would ward off supernatural threats. Builders and contractors have been finding random cats in European walls for years. A shop owner in England had a customer bring in a box containing a mummified cat and a mummified rat, both over three hundred years old. The customer had found them in the walls of a Welsh cottage and wanted to sell them.
