The caravan left that night, never to be seen again, and the villagers returned to their homes to discover that all of the cats had disappeared from the entire village. Upon hearing of the old couple's violent acts towards cats, Menes stopped crying and invoked a prayer that made the clouds in the sky change form and darken with an unknown force. The villagers knew what had happened to Menes' cat, and took pity on him and told him of the cotter and his wife's cat-killing spree. He searched through the whole village and eventually gave up and started crying. On the third day of the caravan's stay, Menes could not find his kitten. Traveling with the wanderers was a small orphan boy named Menes and his pet kitten. They were wearing strange clothes and performed foreign prayers that the villagers could not understand. Then, a caravan of strange travelers arrived one day to Ulthar. The villagers, too fearful to confront the old couple, decided to just keep their cats indoors and out of trouble. The narrator recalls that in the time before the law was passed, there was an old cotter and his wife who trapped and killed their neighbors' cats. This story is about how the town of Ulthar made the decision to forbid anyone from killing cats. "The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story by H.
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