People who had false beliefs in their souls, and animals mixed with those beliefs, and sometimes to the point of exposing these animals to danger. Some of them mistook some of them and took pessimism about them as soon as they saw them, and considered them a bad omen like the crow, and one of those myths are black cats. For centuries, black cats have been associated with superstition and folklore. For example, in the United Kingdom and the United States, black cats were believed to be evil and associated with witchcraft.

In China, a black cat was a sign of hard times and poverty, and in Europe, if a black cat jumped on a sick bed, that jump was a sure sign that death was near. Black cats have caused a sensation over the past centuries until their news reached its climax. They are distinguished, notorious. They became strangely famous, and here are some wondrous thoughts about the midnight waves those cats are making everywhere.

No animal has ever been more closely associated with misfortune or magic than the black cat. It has a long history regarding the idea of ​​luck. It is very easy to think that these cats are associated with the unknown being primarily nocturnal creatures who prowl surreptitiously at night with their glowing eyes. They squat and sing about the beauty of the moon, and these cats seem to have a connection to other worlds. However, black cats have not been associated with bad luck for a while in Europe, but they have gone from being symbols of good luck to curses of bad luck.

These cats may have been sacred in Europe before the advent of Christianity, and there is evidence indicating that many civilizations took cats as deities, and according to the Italian legend that says that the cat gave birth to its kittens at the same birth of Jesus Christ, but cats were not equipped to be venerated in Christian Europe The Church, by its violent rejection of paganism, succeeded in limiting the status of this animal as sacred. After it was in the middle of its stature, its fate turned to the level of humiliation, and at that time it was believed that the pagans worshiped Satan in the form of a cat.

Contemporary fear of black cats because they are associated with witches and the Halloween party may be due to myths, while some believe that this fear has roots in the Greek magic gods, such as the goddess (Hecate) who was associated with cats in an unnatural way. Hecate is associated with dogs, but is in fact also associated with cats. The ancient Roman poet (Ovid) tells that when the princess (Alcumene) was pregnant with Hercules by Zeus, her maid (Galyntheas) played a trick on the goddess of marriage (Hera) to make sure that (Alcumene) would She gives birth successfully without the goddess (Hera) interfering in that pregnancy and causing disappointment to the princess (Alcumene), it was known that the goddess (Hera) married (Zeus) and therefore had the right to be jealous of him because of his many female relationships.

The goddess (Hera) got angry at the maid (Galentias) and turned her into a cat as a punishment for her to be sent cursed to the underworld where she works there as a priestess to the goddess of magic (Hecate) This is how black cats were considered omens of death due to their attachment to magic and divination and their relationship to the underworld because of their close association with (Hecate).

It is said that the sky goddess Hathor, the Anatolian goddess Kebele and the storm demon Lilith were sometimes represented in the forms of cats, although we know that the goddess Hathor was symbolized by the cow. The ancient Egyptians imagined that she roamed the desert west of the Nile in the image of a lioness guarding the tombs there.

In Scotland, they believed that black cats were only witches, and that they had the ability to control the weather or predict its conditions, and one of the Scottish fables states that if the cat came out of the fire, it was a harbinger of the coming of a violent storm. If the cat washes its face, it heralds the arrival of Hungary. Witch hunters Nicholas Remy and Jean Boudin differed as to whether cats are witches or devils.

Cats in the traditional belief of the people of Hungary are witches, those black cats with an alter ego or alternate personality contain within them a strange duality, is the witch the cat or is the cat the witch? In this room full of mirrors that reflect the image of this cat, we might think that these cats are not sane creatures, but hey, in one of the Hungarian witch trials, the plaintiff witness recounts how when he encountered two cats at night he viewed them as night ghosts.

He started talking to them and told them that he was not afraid of them because (the Lord Jesus Christ is with us), and he said that the cats responded to that phrase very cleverly, so they laughed fully in their mouths, as we humans laugh, which confirms that those creatures that this prosecutor saw were not just cats playing at night, in Turkey It is believed that you can reverse misfortune by shaving off part of your head. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided revealing their identity by turning themselves into cats, but if a black cat walked one's path under the moonlight, it would spread. epidemic to death.

We have always heard about hunters who kill animals greedily to steal their rare skins until they are under the list of endangered, but have you ever heard of people who burned an animal just because his behavior was strange? This is what happened when Catholics have been hating cats so much for their association with witchcraft since Pope VIII declared in 1484 that (the cat was the favorite animal of Satan and loved by witches), and one of the ideas behind this is that the cat is by nature rebellious and not subject to orders, unlike Dog or other domesticated animals.

A cat cannot be trained in obedience or loyalty, and thus the presence of a rebellious, heretical or demonic personality, which contradicts those roles that God Almighty has established for every human and animal. The Pope had decided to burn all the witches, and to burn the cats with them, and he considered the woman who had a close relationship to the cats as enough evidence to accuse her of witchcraft and thus burn her to death.

Cats - whether you like them or not - there is no denying that they are crammed with symbolic meanings.. In some cultures the cat has a distorted reputation, often due to superstitions formed around its mysterious, unusual or even brutal behavior, but almost every culture has a legend or story I was exposed to mentioning features of cats. Some peoples hated these cats and considered them cursed, while others worshiped them and considered them gods who should be sanctified.

Regardless of personal opinion or the position of myths, the cat is symbolic (has symbolic connotations) all over the world, and cats have influenced the imagination of mankind and have taken themselves as a base on which some myths are based as an ancient Celtic animal, the cat represents the guardian of the other world (or the underworld (depending on the texts read in different regions) .. Cats are stoic, silent, and mysterious. Cats with these qualities serve very well as a guard at the gates of the other world. They keep the secrets of the other world to themselves. A kitten has a shrewd look at the world. He does not see or understand the depth of her knowledge.

In some African and oriental cultures, especially the Arab countries, the cat was known by its nickname (Seven Lives), and for the sake of something, it is mentioned that when you find someone who always escapes from every fatality, you say that this is with seven lives, and sometimes you may call him the nickname of the Phoenix as well. It is the favorite form of invisible creatures of energy and fire that live in an invisible world.

In India, people were afraid of black kittens on the roads, and if you saw one of them standing in your way, it means a very unfortunate omen, and in some areas, luck is determined by the direction of the cat: if the road crosses from left to right, you can You expect good luck, but if it crosses from right to left, you expect a bad turn full of worse luck.