Alexander Hay<p>One side effect of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlienBigCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlienBigCat</span></a> phenomenon is how the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moggies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moggies</span></a> can often become part of a local area's folklore, and even objects of affection and local pride.</p><p>We see this in places such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bodmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bodmin</span></a> Moor and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IsleofWight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsleofWight</span></a>, but as this news story demonstrates, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gwent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gwent</span></a>, in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a>, has learned to embrace its anomalous big cats too.</p><p>"How big cat sightings have become part of Gwent folklore"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptozoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptozoology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptids</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.freepressseries.co.uk/news/23118978.big-cat-sightings-become-part-gwent-folklore/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">freepressseries.co.uk/news/231</span><span class="invisible">18978.big-cat-sightings-become-part-gwent-folklore/</span></a></p>