Bastet

Cats and other felines have often been used as characters in literature and in other forms of media. This is a list of fictional cats.

Legendary, mythological and fairytale cats

• Bast (or Bastet), Egyptian goddess with the head of a cat; see also Sekhmet, Bast's guise as the goddess of lions
• "Chessie" of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (later Chessie System Railroad) Sleep like a kitten and arrive fresh as a daisy on the C&O
• The cat was the animal of Libera, the Roman mythological personification of Liberty, because it hates to be constrained
• Freya's horse-sized winged cats, who draw the Norse goddess's chariot
• Maneki Neko, the lucky beckoning cat of Japan
• Patripatan, the cat that climbed into the sky to give a good word for his human to the gods in South-East Asian Indian mythology
• Puss in Boots
• Dick Whittington's Cat

Cats and felines in plays

• The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats which is based on the above poetry collection: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, but introduces several additional characters, such as:
  • Asparagus (a.k.a. The Other Cat. Not the same as Gus: The Theatre Cat)
  • Carbucketty (Previously in London and Broadway productions. No longer there.)
  • Cassandra
  • Etcetera
  • Genghis (also spelled "Dschingis")
  • Grizabella
  • Jemima (a.k.a. Sillabub)
  • Pouncival
  • Tantomile
  • Victoria

Cats in science

Schrödinger's cat, hapless victim and lucky survivor of a thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger illustrating the incompleteness of the theory of quantum mechanics (although Schrödinger himself is historical, the cat is the protagonist in a thought experiment and thus fictional). Surrounding this thought experiment, John Gribbin authored two books, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat and Schrödinger's Kittens.

Cats and felines on the Internet and in IT

Mittens and Snowdrop, animated cats which star in a series of humorous animations at Matazone.co.uk
Neko, one of the first animated "screen toys," which "slept" on the screen and woke up when one moved the mouse, chasing the mouse cursor.
Several Neopets characters resemble cats.
The Mona mascots (including Giko Cat), starring in 2channel.
"Longcat", BIKECAT and other cats that have become famous inside image forums such like 2chan, 4chan and iichan. These cats are considered part of the internet meme culture.

This guide is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia.

Need an webmaster? Click HERE

Watch more Youku videos on AOL Video