I’ve had ceiling fans over my bed for 30 years. I don’t remember every having it completely off. We reverse the rotation each fall and spring.
I had an elderly aunt who attributed the crib death of an infant relative (this is over 100 years ago) to a cat being seen in the nursery. In the story, the cat had sat on the infant’s chest and ‘drew out the breath’ of the baby.
This poor woman lived in deathly fear of cats (and germs carried by mice– remember the 1918 flu) her entire life.