(August 11, 2023 at 8:48 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Well, there was that one time when the Pope encouraged people to kill every cat on sight for being familiars of witches and the Black Plague soon followed on the back of gnats on the back of rats, but the audit trail there is sketchy.
It's scandalous that people still repeat this as if it were true.
It's not true.