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Apparently Medieval People Found Cats Licking Their Butts Fascinating And Here Are 14 Pics As Proof
Our fondness for funny cats and their idolization in popular culture far precedes the internet - humans have been lovingly sharing cat drawings since the days of Ancient Egypt. Usually, we prefer to admire cats being cute, funny, or majestic. However, there appears to be one period in human history when we enjoyed creating images of them doing something else entirely - licking their butts.
Perhaps there was a certain sense of humor in the medieval art that encouraged this trend. Perhaps it was an admiration of the way cats calmly kept themselves clean in a brutal time of violence, squalor, and disease. Or perhaps the cat paintings are some secret Da Vinci code giving hints as to the location of the Holy Grail.
Either way, this weird art is good for a laugh in our day and age. This hilarious quirk of medieval paintings was first noticed on the Tumblr Discarding Images, and it has been baffling people ever since.
Scroll down below to check out the best of medieval cats licking their butts below, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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Give me a beagle any day... 7 years ago
Why does this once look like that cat was sketched on much later by someone else? And why is jesus so damn stoned ? That man is high--look at his eyes!
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 7 years ago
Who knew that our ancestors were making “I can has cheeseburger” cat memes long before the invention of the Internet. I suppose even monks got bored...
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Sherri Steinert-Brown 7 years ago
The Gene Simmons of butt licking. Not sure I slept his last name right but you get the jest
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Give me a beagle any day... 7 years ago
Did cats really look so different back then? Half of these cats in these photos so far look like foxes, or ferrets, or badgers, but NOT like cats! Is it just me???
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Demonic cow 7 years ago (edited)
Yep. You can go from reading about people complaining about something, to animal pics, to medieval cat butts.
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Edgar Rops 7 years ago
That is rather tame by medieval illuminator's standards. What would you say about a nun, picking... certain male parts of a tree.
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Demonic cow 7 years ago (edited)
Yep. You can go from reading about people complaining about something, to animal pics, to medieval cat butts.
Load More Replies... Edgar Rops 7 years ago
That is rather tame by medieval illuminator's standards. What would you say about a nun, picking... certain male parts of a tree.
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