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The pope (Gregory IX) and Jesuit witches outlawed cats in the early 13th century(1200s). Cats had been killing the rats, which hosted the fleas, which in turn over populated and spread "The Black Plague" through traditional trade routs until, the "cats came back. Only the Aristocracy kept their cats through this ban as many more vulnerable cats and citizens where burned at the stake as witches.

Similar methods where used on the Native American people via Small Pox in blankets distributed to the masses by non other than, Catholic missionaries.

see also: historical accounts; Scores of children actually kidnapped by "the pied piper, from Hamelin, Germany.

Answer Rather than digest the lunacy presented above, it would be better to read the following link for a more level-headed treatise on the Black Plague, especially the part about the Black rat being replaced by the Brown Rat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death == == == ==

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