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* MuggingTheMonster: The old couple have been killing the cats of the town with impunity because the townspeople are too scared of them to fight back. Then they kill the cat of a traveling orphan boy, who promptly curses and kills them.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The people of Ulthar are worried when every cat in town refuses to partake of the meat and milk usually set out for them. It turns out they're just full from feasting on the cat-murdering couple.
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* OrphansOrdeal: Menes' parents were killed by a plague, and his only comfort is his little black kitten. When the evil cat-murdering couple kills his kitten...well, that's when things get ugly. For them, that is.
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* ForTheEvulz: The narrator states that they did not know why the old couple chose to kill cats, other than for this reason.
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* AssholeVictim: The cat-killing old man and his equally sadistic wife.
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* AssholeVictim: The cat-killing old man and his equally sadistic wife.wife get their just desserts for killing a young boy's kitten.
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* GypsyCurse: The mysterious travelling people are more or less [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Fantasy Gypsies]].[[note]]Indeed it is strongly implied that they are actual Egyptians. The description of the paintings on their caravans sound like Egyptian gods, and their leader wears a headdress of a cow horns and a polished disc in-between, which sounds like how Hathor typically is depicted. "Menes" is the name of an actual early-dynasty Pharoah, and the Egyptians worshipped cats. The name Gypsies is a corruption from "Egyptians" and stems from the false notion that the UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}} came from Egypt.[[/note]]
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* GypsyCurse: The mysterious travelling people are more or less [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Fantasy Gypsies]].[[note]]Indeed it is strongly implied that they are actual Egyptians. The description of the paintings on their caravans sound like Egyptian gods, and their leader wears a headdress of a cow horns and a polished disc in-between, which sounds like how Hathor typically is depicted. "Menes" is the name of an actual early-dynasty Pharoah, pharaoh, and the Egyptians worshipped cats. The name Gypsies is a corruption from "Egyptians" and stems from the false notion that the UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}} came from Egypt.[[/note]]
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* StrippedToTheBone: When the villagers find the bodies of the cat-killing couple, they have been reduced to skeletons with every scrap of flesh picked clean from their bones.
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They would be a Fantasy Counterpart Culture if Romanies really mysteriously travelled in caravans, worshipped the gods of Ancient Egypt and cast curses. But really they are more indebted to the Gypsy stereotype than to Romani culture.
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* GypsyCurse: The mysterious travelling people are more or less a FantasyCounterpartCulture to [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsies]].[[note]]Indeed it is strongly implied that they are actual Egyptians. The description of the paintings on their caravans sound like Egyptian gods, and their leader wears a headdress of a cow horns and a polished disc in-between, which sounds like how Hathor typically is depicted. "Menes" is the name of an actual early-dynasty Pharoah, and the Egyptians worshipped cats. The name Gypsies is a corruption from "Egyptians" and stems from the false notion that the UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}} came from Egypt.[[/note]]
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* GypsyCurse: The mysterious travelling people are more or less a FantasyCounterpartCulture to [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Fantasy Gypsies]].[[note]]Indeed it is strongly implied that they are actual Egyptians. The description of the paintings on their caravans sound like Egyptian gods, and their leader wears a headdress of a cow horns and a polished disc in-between, which sounds like how Hathor typically is depicted. "Menes" is the name of an actual early-dynasty Pharoah, and the Egyptians worshipped cats. The name Gypsies is a corruption from "Egyptians" and stems from the false notion that the UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}} came from Egypt.[[/note]]
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* LoonyLaws: The story starts by telling us a law that most people wouldn't object to, but that is unusually specific. Then we get the full story on why the town decided to put this law on the books.
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* GypsyCurse: The mysterious travelling people are more or less fantasy a FantasyCounterpartCulture to [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsies]].[[note]]Indeed it is strongly implied that they are actual Egyptians. The description of the paintings on their caravans sound like Egyptian gods, and their leader wears a headdress of a cow horns and a polished disc in-between, which sounds like how Hathor typically is depicted. "Menes" is the name of an actual early-dynasty Pharoah, and the Egyptians worshipped cats. The name Gypsies is a corruption from "Egyptians" and stems from the false notion that the UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}} came from Egypt.[[/note]]
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* TranquilFury: When Menes got the bad news, "his sobbing gave place to meditation" and then he placed the curse.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: A meta-example. The number of stories by Lovecraft with a ''happy'' ending can probably be counted on one hand. And even though the villains do receive a very ghastly death befitting a Lovecraft story, the only characters to receive such a fate are the villains themselves, and there isn't even a trace of CosmicHorror, so this story qualifies.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: A meta-example. The number of stories by Lovecraft with a ''happy'' ending can probably be counted on one hand. And even though the villains do receive a very ghastly death befitting a Lovecraft story, the only characters to receive such a fate are the villains themselves, so this story qualifies.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: A meta-example. The number of stories by Lovecraft with a ''happy'' ending can probably be counted on one hand. And even though the villains do receive a very ghastly death befitting a Lovecraft story, the only characters to receive such a fate are the villains themselves, and there isn't even a trace of CosmicHorror, so this story qualifies.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: A meta-example. The number of stories by Lovecraft with a ''happy'' ending can probably be counted on one hand. And even though the villains do receive a very ghastly death befitting a Lovecraft story, the only characters to receive such a fate are the villains themselves, so this story qualifies.
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* KickTheDog: Or rather, eat the cat. ''Very'' bad idea.
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I feel like it shouldn't have to be explained that the story makes it very clear that this isn't normal cat behavior.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Cats don't actually eat people. Granted they have been known to scavenge on Human corpses when starving and given a chance, but cats don't swarm over larger creatures and strip the skin off of their bones.
