Interesting folklore connections

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So, I've been reading Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston for my Folklore class, and the second half of the book is about hoodoo (mispronounced, it says, by white people as voodoo). There's this one ritual that they talk about in which you catch a black cat and shove it in a boiling pot of water, then after it's all disintegrated you take the bones out and put them one by one in your mouth until one tastes bitter. This one is supposed to turn you invisible if you hold it in your mouth.

And I was reading this, and then went "Zomg!" because almost the exact same ritual - minus some cursing of the cat while it screams and the bitter taste part - takes place in T.H. White's The Once and Future King, performed by Morgause (er, I think that's her name... Morgan's sister, mother of the Orkneys) because she was bored.

Iiiiiinteresting.