Thursday, November 20, 2008

Festival




I like dogs. I have two Miniature dachshunds, but I love cats too. Belgium has a festival for cat parson like me.

The Kattenstoet(the cat parade) is a parade in Ypres, Belgium, devoted to the cat. It is held every third year on the second Sunday of May.
It is not clear why this festival started. It says that, in the twelfth century, an event became it I throw out a cat to mouse extermination from the top of the tower of from the Cloth Hall belfry down to the crowd, in spring and drop it, and to have done "disposal". The reasons for this are not clearly understood, but may have had something to do with an association of the cat with witchcraft.
It is stopped by cruelty, now; they began to throw a stuffed cat the top of tower.
The cat throwing is followed by a mock witch burning.
All the citizens become like cat, and walk around the downtown too.

If you like a cat, why don’t you go this festival?? You can get happiness if you can catch a stuffed cat, but I think it is so difficult, because everyone want it. In addition, we can get it from store. I think it funny.

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