Talk:Wu Zetian/@comment-180.30.213.204-20170701041539/@comment-29352582-20170701134623

When she had Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao, who had been deposed and placed under arrest, tortured and executed because Emperor Gaozong showed signs of considering a lightening of their sentence, consort Xiao cursed Empress Wu "Wu is a treacherous monster! May it be that I be reincarnated as a cat and she be reincarnated as a mouse, so that I can, for ever and ever, grab her throat." When she heard of this, Empress Wu forbade the palace personal the keeping of cats as pets, but was often haunted by nightmares of Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao.