I'm pretty sure that was a sign of mourning, kind of like wearing black arm
bands.

-Caroline S.

"yelli" wrote in message
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I was reading in "Shrinking the Cat" by Sue Hubbell that according to
Herodotus, who wrote "the Histories", in ancient Egypt when a cat died
a natural death, the inhabitants of that house used to shave their
eyebrows. I was just wondering if anyone knows why these people did
that.