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In Britain and Australia black cats are considered lucky and in some places white cats are correspondingly unlucky. In many parts of Europe and in the United States, however, it is the black cat who is ill-omened. |
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Thirteen cats in a theatre are bad luck. |
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The Celts believed that cats were magically humans once. To kill a cat brings complete misfortune, while to tread upon its tail is also considered unfortunate, but to a lesser degree. |
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Black cats became a Halloween symbol as it was believed spirits could return in the body of an animal and black cats were certainly one of the most ominous. Witches were said to use the black cat for her spirit companion and it went from there. |
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Seeing a black cat in your dream could represents bad luck or a warning of something unfavourable may take place in your life.
If you see a white cat in your dream, it means you feel great affection for someone. Seeing several cats in your dream means that your partner is unfaithful. Dreaming of a two coloured cat means your feelings are passionate! |
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Norse mythology tells of the witch Freya who had a chariot pulled by black cats who often transformed themselves into black horses. These changelings were very fast and said to be possessed of the devil. |
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Pope Gregory IX denounced black cats as Satanic in his 1233 Papal Bull "Vox in Rama" and this launched the extermination of many cats. Thousands of cats were burned alive in the cause of searching out the devil. Tales of these witches' cats turning into mice, dogs, bats and all sorts of creatures flourished during the Middle Ages and incidentally led to a plague of rats which decimated the food supplies, carried disease, and played a pivotal role in The Great Plague! |
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King Charles I of England owned a black cat. He believed this cat to be lucky and was so afraid of losing it, he had it guarded day and night.
Coincidentally, the cat died the very day before Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary troops came and arrested the king. Shortly after, King Charles was taken to the scaffold and beheaded! |
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If a black cat comes into a house or onto a ship, it is considered a very lucky sign, and the cat should never be chased away in case it takes the luck of the house with it. |
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If a black cat suddenly abandons the house of its masters, there will be a great disaster in that house soon. |
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Sailors avoid the word 'cat' while at sea, but to have a cat on board is lucky, especially if it is a completely black cat with no white hairs. |
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To throw the cat overboard raises an immediate violent storm; no sailor would do such a thing to the ship's cat, and in fact cats are rarely left on an abandoned ship but are generally rescued with the sailors. |
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If a sailor's wife kept a black cat, her husband would always return safely from the sea. These black cats were considered so valuable that they were often stolen! |
