This is a book of great value to the folklorist and psychological anthropologist. The author traces the various beliefs and customs relating to cats through the ages from ancient Egypt to current superstition. All aspects are dealt with, there being chapters of 'Freya and her Cat', 'Witches in Cat Form', 'The Cat in Paradise', 'The Cat's Nine Lives', 'The Corn Cat', and so on. One chapter is entitled 'The Cat as Phallic Symbol', but the author's total ignorance of modern sexuology is shown by the first sentence: 'It seems probable that the Cat first became regarded as a Phallic Symbol because she was held to be the terrestrial representative of the Sun and Moon, and therefore of the god or goddess ruling mundane generation and conception through the occult influences attributed to those orbs' (p. 210).

The author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft is given as Reginald Scott (p. 47), instead of Scot, being perhaps confounded with Sir Walter Scott.