Flash drawing of a black cat with a pentacle on its head, a blackletter banner reading Harm none, Do as ye wilt, and a row of moon phases above.

Black cat with banner and moon phases

Traditional · Black and grey · Flash

A solid black silhouette of an arched cat with a pentacle marked on its forehead and pale eyes. A blackletter banner wraps across its back and body, reading Harm none, Do as ye wilt, and a row of moon phases arcs above the cat. The bold black shapes sit on a plain peach background with no shading or gradient.

Traditional Cat Banner Moon phase Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cat came down from the moon the year the well went dry, and nobody in Harrow Dene thought to ask why it had bothered. It walked into the market square at noon, arched its back like a bent bow, and sat on the lid of the salt barrel as if it had paid for the seat. Old Marta Quill, who sold eels and had buried two husbands, said it had the look of a creditor.

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It had a silver star pressed into its brow and eyes the colour of cold pond water. Every night it sat on the wall of the chapel and counted the moons on the sky-rope above the village, one for each season the orchards had failed, and every morning there was one fewer moon to count. The boy Tobiah, who was nine and believed everything, asked it what happened when the count ran out. The cat yawned and showed him the ribbon of words it wore across its shoulders, folded like a banner over a grave: Harm none, do as ye wilt.

"That's no answer," said Marta.

"It's the only one that fits on the ribbon," said the cat, and went to sleep in the baker's window.

When the last moon thinned to a crescent, the village gathered in the square and argued, as villages do, about who should be blamed. Tobiah walked up to the barrel and lifted the cat by its loose skin. It did not scratch. It simply got heavier, and then lighter, and then it was only a shadow stretched across the cobbles, and the well began to fill with rain again. Marta still says the cat was a creditor, and that the debt was paid by a boy who asked too many questions.