#giant cats

[charnel-grounds]

Walther Caspari (1869–1913), “The siege of the city of Munich on the morning of Ash Wednesday”

from ‘Jugend’ Vol. 6 #9, 1901

[thefugitivesaint]

Elise Hurst, 'Giant Cat Snooze', ''The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1831-2023''

[archivist-crow]

CATH PALUG

This giant cat features in several early Welsh poems. Cath Palug's name means 'the cat with the sharp claws'. It is described as one of the offspring of the sow Henwen, which having been chased to the edge of the sea dropped a litter of kittens which took to the water and swam away. Henwen resembles the many monstrous Murchata or sea cats of Irish tradition. Cath Palug itself was no stranger to the sea, having swam the Menai Strait between North Wales and the island of Anglesey where it was said to continue its marauding. It was successfully slain on that island by Cei (the Sir Kay of later medieval Arthurian legend) who went against it with a shield that looked 'a mere fragment' next to the gigantic cat. A medieval French story tradition tells how a cat called Chapalu or Chatloup (a corruption of Cath Palug) pushed King Arthur into a bog and then overcame him in war, passing through Britain to conquer it, wearing the crown of Britain. This tale may relate to the early medieval stories of the conflict between King Arthur and Mordred (or Medrawt), in which Mordred's symbol is the cat.

Text from The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures by John and Caitlin Matthews (HarperElement, 2005)

[posthumanwanderings]

yall know me so well :’)

only thing I’d like to add, because I don’t go as super ham about posting it as I do these other things, are CATS. bonus points if they are GIGANTIC / forced perspective cats 😼

[cactuscurtains]

Imagine if Spamtenna had one of those giant house cats; and for Tenna when he’s holding it rather than looking absolutely giant (as it usually does when you see them next to people in videos) it just looks like a regular cat. But then when it’s next to Spamton it’s like a giant furry mattress; only, it’s laying on him instead of the other way around.

[ayamari-no-goshi]

I have to do some on-call shifts this week and next for *reasons* and my one cat has already voiced his displeasure over it.

This ~14lb behemoth of a cat sounds like a small child screaming. So unfortunately, anyone who has to talk to me while on-call might get to hear the lovely sounds of a cat yelling at me for being on the phone passed what he thinks is bedtime.

He's done this before during on-call. A nurse got a huge kick out of him audibly yelling at me to go to bed every couple minutes in April (it was a long call about dosing an IV drug). A different nurse got to hear what it sounded like when this same cat decided to start chewing on my laptop during a call.

Apparently he's decided that if he can't have peace, no one can.

[maxandkon]

Great Felines be like

Why is their model just an Alvina, but larger and in a different color¿ In any case, I would not recommend to pet them

...Crushed by a cat...

[smbhax]

From "Return of the Genie!" in Tales to Astonish #9, May 1960. Stan Lee (?) plot, Larry Lieber (?) script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg colors, Artie Simek letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database