Spooky Friday

Our Mommy and Daddy are not normal humans. Most humans only celebrate Halloween one day - on October 31. Our parents start early with the biggest celebrations starting the weekend before Halloween. We have decided to be like our parents and start our Halloween celebrations today!

Today, we will begin our Halloween weekend by telling you about black cats!! Did you know that some humans are silly enough to actually be afraid of black cats - just because of their furrs? Yep! Here are some other human black cat folklore that you might find interesting!

In Bengali folklore women could change their soul into a black cat and that any harm brought to the cat would be suffered by the women.

The Celts thought black cats were reincarnated beings able to divine the future.

German folklore believed that if a black cat jumped on the bed of a sick person it meant death was near.

In Finland it was thought that black cats were thought to carry the souls of the dead to the other world.

In China it is thought the presence of a black cat foretold of poverty.

In Russia, there is still a popular belief that if a black cat crosses a person's path in the street, that person should either choose a different direction in order to walk around the cat's path or cross it holding a button in his/her fingers (it could be a button on a person's jacket, pants, or shirt).

In Romanian and Indian culture, especially in the historical region of Moldavia in Romania and everywhere in India, one of the strongest superstitions still feared by many people is that black cats crossing their path represents bad luck, despite the fact that these regions were never affected by witch hunts or anti-paganism.

During the catholic inquisition when millions were killed, innocent people were tied to a stake and set aflame with often a black cat was thrown into the fire with them.

Black cats, because of their ability to remain unseen in dark places or at night, were considered especially desirable partners for witches. Some witches were purported to have the ability to shape-shift into a cat nine times, hence the archaic belief that cats have "nine lives."

Black cats were sometimes used in magical rituals, sometimes as purported participants, other times as sacrifices.

In witch trials, ownership of a cat was often taken as "evidence" of Satanic association and witchcraft. Cats, believed to be evil in their own right, were often punished or burned alive along with humans during these trials.

Many modern witches keep black cats as pets, and view them as sacred.

Some of those facts are interesting and some are just plain wrong - hurting black kitties all because they are black. HUMANS!

We would like to dedicate this post to One Who Came Before - Mommy's cat Midnight.

Midnight was actually found on Halloween Night by Mommy's sister when Mommy was just a little girl. He lived with Mommy and her family until he was roughly 20 years old and every Halloween they celebrated his Purrthday. Now every Halloween Mommy and Nana think of him and miss him lots. Wasn't he gorgeous?