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Today, October 27th, is National Black Cat Day! YAY!
I have had many cats over my lifetime. A good many of them were black. The first cat I remember my family having was black. His name was Spooky. I don’t recall much about him because I was so young. One day, Spooky disappeared. I hoped and waited for him to return. He didn’t. In amongst the number of other cats of various colors we’ve had, there were these black cats: Patty, Pirate, Robbie, Scooter, Midi, as well as many black baby kittens from our mama cats, and my current cat, Buffy. She’s a Norwegian Forest Cat. Each cat, black or not, had a unique personality.
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| My daughter many years ago with her cat Midi with a mouse on her head. |
Though I love black cats, not everyone does. Black cats have gotten a bad rap. They have been long associated with witches and believed to be evil or be a bad omen, or something. Black cat being associated with witches goes back to the Middle Ages.
Side Note: I scratched my head about here and asked myself, “Exactly when were the Middle Ages?” Answer: 500-1453 A.D., with 500-1100 being the early Middle Ages (a.k.a. The Dark Ages) and 1100-1453 being the high or late Middles Ages, thought of as the Middle Ages proper.
Back to cats
In middle school, my middle child did a report on black cats. He found that there was a lot of good luck associated with black cats. In Scotland, Britain, Japan, and other places, the presence of a black cat indicates forthcoming good fortune and prosperity. British sailors believed that a black cat aboard brought good luck to the ship and a save trip home.
Pirates were a bit more complicated and believed, if a black cat walked onto a ship and then off, it was bad luck and the ship was going to sink. If a black cat walked toward you it was bad luck, but if it walked away from you it was good luck.
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In Japan, a woman with a black cat was said to attract more suitors. In Great Britain’s English Midlands, a black cat is said to bring a bride good luck and happiness, so it makes a perfect wedding gift.
A common belief in Scotland is a black cat arriving on your doorstep is good luck. In England and Ireland, a black cat crossing your path is good luck.
A genetic mutation, which gives these cats their black coat, also makes them more resistant to disease. But black cats are notoriously hard to photograph. Snap a picture of a black feline friend and you have to explain to people that the black blob is a cat.
In the early 17th century in America while the Pilgrams were establishing the colonies here, they were suspicious of anything remotely associated with witchcraft. People who were found harboring black cats would be punished severely or even put to death. I am so glad I don’t live in those times.
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Back when I was in junior high school, my sister and I really tested the boundaries of bad luck superstitions. We went to get a black cat for our other sister. It was Friday the 13th. The people we were picking up the cat from were doing some house maintenance and had a ladder propped up against the front of their house that we had to walk under to get to the front door. Since we didn’t believe in all these things being bad luck, we laughed about it. That was Robbie, and he was a great cat.
God made all the many different colors of cats. I don’t believe black ones to be bad luck or good luck. But the ones I have owned over the years have brought me much happiness.
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