I was curious about how many lives a cat has depending on the country, so I decided to find as much info as I could and post it here.
The map is made in purple to help daltonic people understand it better. I’ve seen it should help with deuteranopia and protanopia mostly, but I’m very new to this so if you have any feedback, let me know ;)
Disclaimers
7 or 9 lives
The countries with 7 or 9 were the ones where I found some discrepancies depending on the region, but since the sources didn’t state which region, I had to put the whole country. Technically, Italy is also in that category, but I believe the people who says it’s 9 lives is in very specific regions and 7 lives is way more used.
Cyprus
Although populated mostly by greeks, surprisingly most info I found pointed towards them saying 9 lives.
No info
There are some countries I couldn’t find any definitive information and had to go with what other pages stated about their myths, these are:
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Palestine
- Irak
- Saudi Arabia
So I am very sorry to the arab folks living in those countries if I’m somehow mistaken about this ^^’
Other mistakes
I’m sure I have made some mistakes and assumptions about how many lives a cat has in some countries and I have put them closer to immortality or given them taxes on their lives, forgive me.
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I’ve never heard of cats having other than 9 lives (NL, also speaking EN) but somehow 7 lives makes more sense to me; it’s a lucky number, after all!
You’re also on cloud number nine, while we’re auf Wolke sieben in Germany.
Maybe it’s 7 or 9 depending on the cat. Like if it’s an especially assholish cat, the cat god grants it another 2
years of lifelives.(I have had a teenager talking my ear off all day and it has made me illiterate.)
It’s kinda interesting that the saying about cats having multiple lives is pretty much universal but then the amount differs. I wonder why that is
Source for France? Never heard about this.
Even though they’re mostly anecdotic, there seems to be a consensus that both are used. There are some articles stating they’re 9 and others stating they’re 7, and depending who you ask they’ll tell you one or another.
Un chat usagé a sept vies, mais un chat neuf vies
Why is everything a purple shade?
Its explained in the post. It’s for daltonic people to be able to see it bettee, although I dont have experience with it so I don’t know if I did it right
Oh, didn’t read it
I’m from Greece and I think I’ve only heard people talk about 9 lives here😄
Is it actually correct to use печь in this way? Wiktionary says it’s about baking, like for bread.
Edit: Ah, the English version has a kind of food theme. Then does the analogy carry over properly? Hopefully someone here speaks Russian better than me.
Wow, a blast from the past! I love Pinkie’s Brew in russian!
