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Cat o' nine tails plaited together. To make a cat o' nine tails, a rope is unravelled into three small ropes, each of which is unravelled again. Variations exist, either named cat (of x tails) or not, such as the whip used on adult Egyptian prisoners which had a cord on a cudgel branching into seven tails, each with six knots, used only on adult men, with boys being subject to caning, until Egypt banned the use of the device in 2001. Sometimes the term "cat" is used incorrectly to describe various other punitive flogging devices with multiple tails in any number, even one