Friday, August 13, 2004
Feline Curio Friday
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Powell, black cat to cross paths on Friday 13th Thursday, August 12, 2004 [CNN]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell will cross paths with a black cat Friday the 13th, posing for a picture with a copper-eyed Bombay male that bears his name.
Colin Powell -- the cat -- will pay a courtesy call on the top U.S. diplomat Friday Aug. 13 and the two will appear before photographers in the elegant Treaty Room outside the secretary of state's suite of offices at the State Department.
In other cat fancier related news:
ATTENTION PEOPLE!! IS THERE A NECROMANCER IN THE HOUSE?
Feline spirits force Orissa school to close, [India]. Also published HERE
In a bizarre incident, a girl's school here has been closed after its students started behaving abnormally.
Teachers claim that at least a dozen girls have taken ill under mysterious circumstances in the past two weeks, all fainting without a cause, only to wake up and start behaving like cats.
Dolagobind, a remote hamlet in Orissa, has since been affected by so many incidents that necromancers have been called in to remove these so called evil spirits.
According to the teachers, all the affected girls are aged between eight to twelve. They were seen clawing their own faces and shrieking like felines. Some even fainted, leaving the management with no option but to shut the school.
"First three girls fell down when they came to school. We thought they hadn't had food so we gave them something to eat but after that also they were not normal and behaved strangely," said school headmistress Manjubala Pande.
"Next day again some six-seven girls started crying, fell down on the floor making sounds like that of a cat. We immediately informed others in the village but after the faintings and behaviour repeated, we were forced to shut the school," he added.
The children have been shifted to an ashram or hermitage run by a local sage where they are being made to recite Vedic mantras and fire rituals are being performed to drive the spirits away.
Parents say the girls have shown some improvement but are unable to recall exactly what went wrong with them. (ANI)
Oh, the wonders of the invisible world.
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