History: Which leader believed cats were associated with witchcraft and initiated the widespread persecution and extermination of cats?
Answer Pope Gregory IX
Pope Gregory IX associated cats with witchcraft and the devil in his papal bull labeled "The Vox". So many cats were exterminated that some scholars believe this even could have aided in spreading the bubonic plague.
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