Earlier this week, the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina released on Netflix. Sabrina, the teenage witch, who all of us, especially the '90s kids were first introduced to, in Archies, is obviously battling with the challenges that come with being a young witch. And, one of her first tasks at hand is to choose a "familiar" — a sort of spirit animal who protects her. She finds one in the form of Salem, her black cat (often thought to be the form Satan takes on earth). The fact that Sabrina, and in medieval times, other witches were closely linked to cats, formed the founding stone of the "crazy cat lady" trope, who could turn you into a frog if you didn't treat her right.

In the 1700s, cats started being seen as companions to spinsters, who had nothing to do in life except lament their singledom, and that lasted well into the 20th century. Remember Grey Gardens, where the single, broke and "crazy" Edith Beale Sr and Jr, lived in squalor in a mansion in New York with not one cat, but a dozen. Between 1996 and 2006, Tufts University's Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium conducted a study, which said that hoarders usually fit the "crazy lady" stereotype — a single, older woman, who was hard up for cash and not high on the social scene. But, the last few years have seen the crazy cat lady turn into the successful, sorted boss ladies, who flaunt their mutually conducive relationships with their feline friends on their Instagram accounts.