Winged Cats in Popular Culture
- A Kircher engraving from 1667 depicted a demonic creature with a cat's head, bat's wings and human torso. Cats and bats were both associated with the devil (in Christianity), and demons were sometimes depicted as bat-winged cats.
- In Thoreau's Walden, the narrator briefly describes a winged cat.
- In the 1980s and 1990s, the Forgotten Realms role-play game and related fantasy novels depicted shy winged cat-owl hybrids as the pets of wizards. The Forgotten Realms winged cats are called tressym.
- In Marvel Comics, a subspecies of the Light Elves called the Cat Elves have winged cats that serve as their steeds.
- In video games, some creatures may resemble winged cats.
- In Final Fantasy V, many random enemy encounters have such creatures.
- In the Lunar series, two supporting characters, Nall and Ruby, resemble flying cats for most of the game and even have stereotypical feline tendencies, like fish being a favorite dish.
- Myau of the first Phantasy Star game eats a nut that gives him wings.
- In Beyblade, the Bit-Beast Venus is a winged cat.
- Winged cat angel figurines are popular among cat owners in the USA.
- Winged kittens, called flittens, were created by Laura H. Von Stetina. A book about flittens, Mewingham Manor, Observations on a Curious New Species, was published by the Greenwich Workshop Press, and a line of flitten figurines are also produced in the USA by the Greenwich Workshop. These show cute kittens with butterflies' wings. Bradford Editions produces "Almost Purr-fect Angels" winged cat figurines.
- Catwings, a series of children's picture books by Ursula K. Le Guin, features several winged cats.
- A winged cat also appears in the chapter "Brute Neighbors" in Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
- Aq Bars, Tatarstan's coat of arms depicts a winged snow leopard, is related to winged cat.
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