When the Roman Empire fell, came the Middle Ages where cats become hated, feared and persecuted because they believed that they were instruments of the devil because of their habits night, and constant companions of witches, this led to many acts of cruelty to the cat right through the centuries medievales.Desde the twelfth century began to associate cats with paganism and witchcraft. 
formed various beliefs about the cat ........ * commented that at night the cats left their homes in cities and went out to the woods for what they said they were sons of Obsure and a dark world.
* The eyes of cats were evil and that glowed in the dark it was implied that mismito work of the devil. 
* Sometimes in the cemeteries had cats and top it followed that the spirit of the dead had taken possession of them. 
* They justified the weather, blame the cats ran wild when triggered to the elements (storms, storms, etc) against the man by the demon. 
* claimed that sorcerers and witches in particular could become a cat and vice versa, so they had to kill cats because at age 9 became powerful sorcerers. 
* They justified that when cats were thrown from the top of the towers of churches and not killed because he was standing fell all who were saved by the devil. 
In the Middle Ages came an era of obscurantism, where cats were victims of ignorance and absurd superstitions, even burned at the stake to the heterodox, the witches and cats, and more if they were black cats. There was 
economic rewards for delivering cats to be burned at the stake, even in some cities there was a special day dedicated to this service. In England, France and Germany, on the day of All Saints, festivities began with the burning of boxes and bags full of live cats. in Scotland were impaled and roasted alive for two days, in a ceremony called "the Devil's Supper."
In Paris, during the night of San Juan, cats were burned alive in precencia of King Louis XIV banned until these fires. In the markets of the towns included shooting the cat for fun, got into the cat in a basket and had to go through it shoot arrows.
This terrible persecution arrived in Alsace cause represent the devil in a carriage drawn by a shot of four black cats.
Therefore, during the Middle Ages not only tortured and killed thousands of people, but also tortured and killed millions of cats, as a result of persecution and superstition throughout Europe and became part of Christian ritual.
As a result of that persecution they were subjected in this era cats, rats and mice invaded the city, causing serious damage in food. A mid-century XIV, a disease caused by rats, known as the Black Death struck European cities. The rat fleas transmit plague began, which came to exterminate the third of the population the time.
People began to realize that where there lived a cat and rats and plague. Until then its value was recognized as predators and thus saving the cats. 
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