![]() Midnight is Maud's cat, mentioned in the First Worst Witch book. ![]() ![]() Star becomes Mildred's broomstick companion after his tricks win the talent competition for Cackle's, while Tabby remains her general companion. After Mildred and Star are forced to perform in a multi-school talent competition, a group of elder witches note that there is no actual rule stating that the witch's animals have to be cats, and theoretically even elephants could be permitted if it weren't for the obvious size restrictions. Mildred trains Star on her broomstick, where he displays a knack for doing tricks on the broom, as even cats tend to stay on the brooms and nothing more. Star is Mildred's dog, who she finds in her fourth year at Cackle's, after wishing for him on a shooting star. He also rides in Mildred's backpack because he is afraid to ride on the edge of the broomstick. He got his name because Mildred was surprised that he was the only tabby cat, so she exclaimed, "Tabby?!". In the 2017 TV series, there wasn't a black cat for Mildred because she wasn't originally enrolled at Cackle's, but was only accepted on Selection Day. Fortunately, she succeeded and the school granted her a gray and stripy cat which she named Tabby. Every witch was originally intended to have a black cat each, but since Miss Hardbroom found it unlikely that Mildred would ever pass the test, she didn't get a cat for her. Tabby is Mildred's cat through her years at Cackle's Academy and Weirdsister College. From then on, cats became the most popular familiars for witches all over the world. She took Ember to the Witching Institute of Familars and they examined her and discovered that cats have an innate magical knowledge. Ember the cat squeezed through the bars to sit with Victoria, and she was able to remember the transference spell and used it to get herself and Ember out of the prison. Her familiar, a rabbit, was so frightened he ran away. The suspicious villagers threw Victoria in the village jail. This changed when Victoria Cobwebton misjudged a flying spell and crashed in a village of non-magical people. In the past, witches used any animal as a familiar. The first cat to be a witch's familiar was Ember. this can apparently happen when their owners’ magic becomes corrupt, but it turns out that when mother cats have kittens, they transfer their magic to the kittens, leaving the mother low on magic. ![]() In The Owl and the Pussycat, we learn that familiars can lose their magic and will fade away if it is not restored. In the 2017 TV series, the familiars are critical to the plot and often find useful items. The cats appear more in the books than the 1998 TV series. However, sometimes, certain witching schools will only allow a certain species to be the students' familiars (for example, in the 2017 series, Cackle's Academy only allowed cats.) Owls, dogs, and even hedgehogs have been mentioned as alternative familiars. However, there is no actual rule stating that the witch's animals have to be cats, and theoretically even elephants could be permitted if it weren't for the obvious size restrictions. Mildred and Her friends with their kittensĪ witches' cat serves no practical purpose whatsoever - they are to sit on the back of a witch's broomstick, and continue tradition. ![]()
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