Talk:Cat-sìth

Merger with Cait Sith

Seems like the two pages (this page and Cait Sith are really discussing the same thing. Perhaps they should be merged?

They are discussing exactly the same thing, save for the spelling. Merge 'em

Ok, done. If I've mangled the content at all in the process, please: 1) forgive the error; and 2) fix it. Point #2 is more important than point #1. Thanks! Fairsing 03:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

How is it pronounced?

I pronounce it as Kate-Sythe...is that wrong? Gavin Scott 23:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

The original pronounciation should be "caught shee". Ickle Ronnie 09:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Cat Shit One?

I wonder if the manga Cat Shit One has anything to do with Cait Sith (or ketto shī for that matter). I know it sound like a stretch, but you know the Japanese love to use puns...

Also, the Vietnameses (villain, since the heroes are Americans) are represented with cats. There are giant stone cat head on the front cover. Is that suppose to symbolize the horrible power of Cait Sith (Viet Cong) ? Cait Sith can be a witch disguised as a cat, while Viet Congs are soldiers who dressed as civilians.

Of course, maybe I just look too much into it. - DTRY 04:01, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Cait Sith from FFVII & King of Cats

Someone mentioned the FFVII chara on this page, but I think the "for the character from FFVII..." and "List of Fictional Cats" headings make pretty clear reference to the game character, so an additional reference is probably not needed.

There is also a reference in the manga "Aqua" (related to the series Aria) to Cait Sith as a "King of the Cats" who rules/gathers cats when humans are not around--the character mentions it as being from Scottish Folklore. Has anyone heard this tidbit before? I've only heard of the Black Dog-like figure of "eerie cat wandering on roads," not this more carefree, playful version (which, incidentally, reminds me more of the Cait Sith from FF...) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.233.187 (talk) 17:40, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

What is the most common name?

I've sen it as Cat Sìth, Cath Sith, and Cat Sidhe. Does anyone know which is the most common? Well, if there is a most common one at all, considering it's pretty obscure. Brambleberry ^{☾of RC☽} 14:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 18:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

---

Cat Sìth → cat sìth – This article addresses "a" cat sìth in places, and in other places a particular "the" Cat Sìth, sometimes actually meaning "a" cat sìth, but in other places genuinely referring to a specific singular character otherwise known as the King of the Cats, but that party has his own article already. Since there is a class of cat sìths [I'm not sure how to pluralize in Scottish Gaelic, only in Irish], not just one, this article should be moved to lower case, and adjusted to focus on cat sìth legends generally, then collect "the" Cat Sìth, singular, material in one section with {{Main|The King of the Cats}} at the top of it. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ɖ^⊝כ^⊙þ Contrib. 07:40, 3 January 2013 (UTC)}}

• Comment In that case, wouldn't the correct move be to Cat sith? Skinsmoke (talk) 10:57, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

No it's Scots Gaelic so it would be sìth, fairy, as in Cù Sìth for fairy dog. The question is whether it is really plural? I notice that gd.wp has "bean-shìdh [or] "bean shìth" for banshee, without fairy woman being capitalised. So there's more than one banshee. But more than one fairy cat? FWIW the general gd.wp article on fairies doesn't capitalize the cat or the dog, but both are redlinks to non-existent articles so hardly any weight against printed sources. This needs an expert in Celtic mythology. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:39, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

• Support - no expert has turned up, so based on nom. Let's move it. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:20, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Sources

I've tagged this page as requiring better sources. Most of the refs are to one blog, which currently displays a 404 error message: the remaining refs are all hard copy books, rather than online sources. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 11:52, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Source 1 is unverifiable and all content attributed solely to it should be removed if not further sources found

Im doing a project on Cat Sith and have been researching a little. the source (https://web.archive.org/web/20120821034420/http://deborahmacgillivray.co.uk/scotlore_caitsidhe.htm) leads to the website of a fiction author, who has written much of what has become the content of this wikipedia article on her website it seems. I have emailed deborah asking her to give information about the origin of this information but received no reply. I wish all the soul stealing and samhain/late wake stuff was legit, but having scoured a good number of available books i am yet to find corroboration. If there is not other source for any of this i am going to delete all the information attributed to it, so that would be the soul stealing/late wake and samhain sections. There ar other articles around but none that i wouldnt assume have just been reading the wikipedia or derived forms. If anyone knows of any other sources send them over here and we can replace the aforementioned website.

the 9 lives cat stuff is found in other sources but should still be reattributed. ie to superstitions of the highlands and islands by John Gregorson Campbell from 1900 1analogue1 (talk) 09:36, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

I agree, as far as I'm concerned, go ahead, I just haven't had the time to even look at the sources but a lot of these mythology pages have highly shady source Akerbeltz (talk) 12:07, 24 August 2022 (UTC)