Thursday, September 17, 2009

Black Cat Superstitions

By Russ D. Edwards

Most people won't admit to being superstitious. Maybe that's because the definition of superstition' is an unreasonable belief based on stupidity or fear, or both. Nobody wants to appear ignorant or fearful. Yet you may find well-educated, awfully successful people who won't walk under a ladder or who will bury the pieces of a broken mirror or who throw salt over their shoulders if salt is spilled. You will find people who, if a black pussy crosses their path, turn around and go back home or take another path to their destination.

Black cats are somehow associated with malicious, with magicians, and even with illness. Black cats have been blamed for everything from a run of bad luck to the plague and all of the injustices of the Earth.

essentially, gullible ideology change from country to country and even from region to region. Having a black pussy cross your trail in England or Japan is said to bring' luck, but having a black pussy cross your path in America and another European states is believed to bring' luck.

Having a black moggy cross your trail isn't the only legend that relies on black cats :

* In Scotland, it is thought that a strange black cat on your porch brings wealth. * Italians believe that when a black cat sneezes, all who hear it will have good luck. * Egyptians believe that the life-giving rays of the sun are kept in the eyes of a cat at night. * In Ireland, slaughtering a pussy brings seventeen years of bad luck. * In America, it's 'bad' luck to see a white cat at night, but 'good' luck to dream about a white cat.

ancient Egyptians worshiped pussies, and anyone who killed a cat was executed. In the Middle Ages, when magicians turned into a concern, the black cat was linked to magicians and to devil. Some assumed that a magician has the power to transform herself into the form of a black cat, so the notion that a black pussy that crossed your path was actually a camouflaged hag was born.

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