Anna Maria Vilhelmina Hellberg Moberg

Cunning and clever, worshipped and feared, thought to bring good luck or even great harm, cats have fascinated humans for millennia. Tame, with a hint of wild, cat tales – humorous, scary, haunting, uplifting – prowl the pages of this book. This book explores cats in folk tales and folklore from around the world - from Egypt’s regal Bastet to Celtic and Nordic mythical felines, via Japan, Persia and elsewhere.

Humorous tales, cautionary tales, tall tales, fairy tales, heroic tales – the depths of Swedish folklore hold all of the above and more besides.From cunning folk and helpful Tomtar, to sinister Näcken and the Stallos of Sami legend (and with plenty of romance and derring-do in-between), this book covers centuries' worth of Sweden’s folk tales, telling stories that have never been translated into English as well as several oral tales published in writing for the first time.