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Why are black cats associated with Halloween?

PoC avatarPosted on October 29, 2020 by Michael BroadOctober 31, 2020

You can easily link black cats with the specific superstition that they were agents of the Devil. Some people still believe it. You can link black cats to witchcraft and cat familiars i.e. cats belonging to witches, but it is … Continue reading →

Posted in halloween | Tagged black cat superstition, black cats, Cat Superstitions, halloween, witches | 2 Replies

Why is it bad luck for a black cat to cross your path (origin)

PoC avatarPosted on May 2, 2020 by Michael BroadMay 2, 2020

Witchcraft is the origin of the long held belief in many countries and cultures that black cats bring bad luck if they cross your path. Confusingly the opposite belief – that they bring good luck – is also a superstition … Continue reading →

Posted in superstitions | Tagged black cat superstition, cat history, cat sayings, Sayings, supersition, witches | 2 Replies

The earliest record of the belief that cats are witches in disguise

PoC avatarPosted on July 13, 2019 by Michael BroadJuly 13, 2019

Most of now know of the superstitious nonsense that cats are evil spirits because their bodies are occupied by an evil fiend . This crazy link between witchcraft – which itself is a fiction – and domestic cats blighted the … Continue reading →

Posted in superstition | Tagged black cat superstition, cat history, Cat Superstitions, witches

Two People Killed By Cats In Embakasi

PoC avatarPosted on June 11, 2019 by Michael BroadJune 11, 2019

A Kenyan website claims that a marauding band of five stray domestic cats are roaming around attacking and killing residents in Embakasi. This has to be BS.

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Posted in Superstitions | Tagged africa, Cat Superstitions, supersition, witches | 2 Replies

Time To Pardon Witches And Their Cats

PoC avatarPosted on November 4, 2018 by Michael BroadNovember 4, 2018

It is time to pardon all witches and in so doing rehabilitate all the cats who lived with “witches”. Pardoning witches is not a new idea. For example. in 2004, in Scotland, Dr Gordon Prestoungrange exercised his legal authority, under … Continue reading →

Posted in superstitions | Tagged black cat superstition, Cat Superstitions, witches | 11 Replies

People want to kill this psychopathic witch who cut up animals

PoC avatarPosted on November 23, 2017 by Michael BroadNovember 24, 2017

Nearly all the comments under the story reported by the website: heavy.com express a desire to kill Brendan Evans rather than send him to prison. Their feelings are running high. This man is universally detested and prison is too good … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, Cat News, witches | 7 Replies

Superstition, Witchcraft and Cat Familiars are Alive and Well in Nevada

PoC avatarPosted on March 7, 2017 by Michael BroadMarch 7, 2017

Judging by their attitude, behaviour and education, this couple are living in the Dark Ages in Europe. The last person hanged for witchcraft in America was in 1692. Fast forward to 2017 and this couple, one an adult named Immanuel … Continue reading →

Posted in Superstitions | Tagged cat history, Cat Superstitions, cats and the devil, witches | 4 Replies

Witch Wanted to Eat Her Cat

PoC avatarPosted on December 23, 2015 by Michael BroadDecember 23, 2015

In a throwback to the Dark Ages and witches familiars (“familiar” (noun): a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve or guard a person.), a woman claimed that she was a witch and that she … Continue reading →

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Witches and Witches’ Familiars in the UK in the 1970s

PoC avatarPosted on December 29, 2014 by Michael BroadMarch 26, 2015

It seems that a couple of spinster sisters who lived in the hamlet of Saveock, Truro, Cornwall in the south-west of England were practising witches. They lived near a site described as a Neolithic platform where there are 40 grisly … Continue reading →

Posted in Cat History | Tagged black cat superstition, black cats, cat abuse uk, Cat News, Cat Superstitions, uk, witches | 4 Replies

Satanic Cults and Cats

PoC avatarPosted on May 25, 2012 by Elisa Black-TaylorSeptember 24, 2016

by Elisa Black (USA) Druid at stonehenge – Stonehenge, England, has special significance to Druids – photo by Christopher_Hawkins SATANIC CULTS AND CATS Satanism (noun): The worship of Satan characterized by a travesty of the Christian rites I would first … Continue reading →

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