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* ''[[The Cat Returns]]'' is this in spades.

* Yoruichi from ''[[Bleach]]'' often opts to wear the guise of a black cat.

* The cats in ''[[Aria]]'', especially the Mars variety. And then there's [[Mega Neko|Cait Sith]].

* The cats in ''[[Windy Tales]]'' seem to have a natural talent for manipulating wind.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', where [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] means that [[All Myths Are True]], the goddess Bast exists and governs the well-being of cats. Cats are also implied to have once ruled the world in an alternate timeline.

 

 

* ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'': Binx, a teenager who [[Baleful Polymorph|was transformed]] into a black cat by a trio of vengeful witches. He has the ability to speak, and he is effectively immortal. No, he doesn't have nine lives, he just can't die.

* At one point in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'', a normal cat is able to ward off [[Big Bad|Imhotep]] because "cats are the guardians of the underworld". This is exploited only the once, because Imhotep completes his regeneration soon after and becomes immune to whatever the cat would supposedly have done to him.

* The film Coraline has a cat that can move between the real world and the Other Mother's world. At the end of the movie, he is shown vanishing into thin air.

* ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'' has a talking cat that gives Molly the hint they need to save Amalthea and the unicorns. It was also the only creature that could see through the spell Schmendrick put on the unicorn. Bonus points for being the only cat on this list with an [[Eyepatch of Power]].

 

== Literature ==

* [[Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman's]] short story ''The Price'' is about an otherwise ordinary black cat who, on a daily basis, protects the narrator's home from a demonic entity. The black cat gets more and more beat up with every fight, and when he fails to fight the demon, the narrator's household is afflicted by numerous misfortunes. Yeah. Gaiman has a thing for black cats.

* In [[Lloyd Alexander|Lloyd Alexander's]], ''[[Time Cat]]'', all cats have the ability to travel to any place they choose, in any point of time they choose. This is said to be the reason why they can vanish mysteriously in small rooms.

* Cats in ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'' are the only animal naturally able to see more than one plane.

* Nakata from ''[[Kafka on the Shore]]'' has the ability to talk to cats. Siamese cats are said to be very easy to communicate with.

* In an episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' a witch's [[Familiar]] turned on her and became a Warlock. Sorta the reverse of what happened on [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina]] with Salem.

** Of course, the sisters have their own feline familiar. She became a human as a reward for her service to the forces of good.

 

== Myth and Legend ==

* Many modern Pagans, including Wiccans, hold cats in high esteem. In Wiccan rituals, it is believed a cat can walk through a magic circle without breaking it, since cats can walk through spiritual/magical borders. Another animal, like say a dog, would break the circle and thus dispel any magic.

* Cats are believed in some cultures and traditions to be able to see spirits and ghosts.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** ''Dreamlands'' supplement. In the Dreamlands, cats can travel to the Moon on their own power and have a secret language. They worship Bast.

 

* Aside from from the entire world being implied to exist in some in-between realm, Mistoffelees from [[Cats]], who uses his magical powers to save Old Deuteronomy from Macavity. There are also a few other cats who are hinted to have magical powers, such as Macavity himself, and Coricopat and Tantomile.

** Mistoffelees can also change the lights, levitate objects, teleport things, and [[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant|can make kittens appear out of nowhere.]]

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Felineko of ''[[Solatorobo]]'' are stated to have a gift with magic, possessing both interest and talent.

 

* Spark from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' is a cat who can talk, which causes some people to believe that he's possessed.

* Rose, who is arguably the most magical of the four kids in ''[[Homestuck]]'', prototyped her dead cat Jasper to her kernelsprite, and also made a genetic sequence using the letters MEOW (instead of the typical [[Stealth Pun|GCAT]]) which can be spliced with other DNA to create godlike entities.

** After the universe is rebooted, we meet an ''actual'' GCat, likely made with a BARK sequence. The G, of course, stands for God, since, as a First Guardian, GodCat is pretty much omnipotent.

* ''[[Errant Story]]'' has the flying black cat, Ellis. He's extremely resilient to offensive magic and can also talk... [[Deadpan Snarker|which is not necessarily a good thing]].

 

* Basement Cat, and Ceiling Cat!

** To elaborate: [[LOLcats]], over the years, have accrued a small mythology. Ceiling Cat, based off a picture of a cat that was stuck in between the walls of an apartment that was rescued when a hole was cut in the ceiling, is considered the [[King of All Cosmos|God of Lolcats]]. Basement Cat is just any random black cat, and is considered [[Satan|the Devil]]. There are others, such as Longcat, who can stretch to any length and is sometimes depicted in an [[The End of the World as We Know It|epic battle]] with its [[Evil Twin]], [[Sdrawkcab Name|Tacgnol]].

* In the second season of [[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]] {{spoiler|Lillian's}} cat {{spoiler|Napoleon}} becomes her familiar after her {{spoiler|Heart of Earth}} powers manifest, the most prominent effect on him being his ability to speak after she wishes they could a have a conversation together. Before this he was just a regular cat {{spoiler|given to Cornelia by Will}}, so he wasn't ''inherently'' magical. Later, he gets the ability to change into a seven-foot tall cat monster {{spoiler|after becoming a Regent of Earth}}.

* In ''[[Thundercats 2011]]'' The [[Catfolk]] of [[The Empire]] of Thundera owe their dominance in a [[World of Funny Animals]] to possession of the magical Sword of Omens containing the [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]], the Eye of Thundera, and their [[Church Militant]] [[The Order|order]] of Clerics are also [[Kung Fu Wizard]]/[[Magic Knight]]s that possesses magical [[Super Speed]] and [[Super Reflexes]].

 

== Real Life ==

 

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[[Category:Magic and Powers]]

[[Category:Wizards and Witches]]

[[Category:Feline Tropes]]