The Cat of Norrhult
A bewitched cat in a folk tale from Norrhult in Småland. In the tale 'The Cat of Norrhult', a cat behaves in ways that betray a witch's or troll's power behind it, and the cat's strange actions reveal the magic at work in the village. Cats were the favourite disguise of witches and of the trolls' servants in Nordic belief, and a cat that walked on two legs, spoke, or wore something out of place was read as the true witch showing herself. The tale belongs to the wide Swedish family of stories about animals that are not what they seem, where the sharp eye of a neighbour or the luck of a househol