Question: Where did the idea of cats having nine lives come from?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: What is the idea of cats having nine lives based on?
Where geographically did the idea of cats having nine lives come from and take root as a myth?
answer: the natural suppleness and swiftness cats exhibit to escape life-threatening situations
the fact that falling cats often land on their feet
many countries
not in Italy, Germany, Greece, Brazil and some Spanish-speaking regions, Turkish and Arabic Traditions
Natural Questions answer: common myth (from the Wikipedia article "Nine Lives")