The Black cat is just what the name is…a black cat, a cat who has black fur. It does not have to be any particular breed, it can be purebred or it can be mixed. The black color is a help to the cat that hunts at night but if we take a look into history then we will see that cats that have all black fur were considered many times to be symbols of evil (there are a few cultures where they were omens of good luck). Strangely enough, it seems that these superstitions have never really gone away even in the modern society that we live in; it is a fact that there is a lower adoption rate for black cats in American shelters then those that have other colors. That is strange.
Back in the day, black cats were strongly associated with evil and witchcraft. If we take a look at Hebrew and Babylonian folklore, we can see that black cats were symbolic of serpents coiled on a hearth; in ancient Egypt the cat was worshiped and when the family cat died the whole family went into mourning and the cat’s body got mummified. The Romans came along and they saw the cat much in the same way, it was them that introduced the cat to Europe. Because of the all the worshipping going on, the cat at that time was considered a sign of good luck especially if a black one crossed your path; it was the church that started to ruin things for the black cat, the Church started to associate them with witchcraft, black cats and sometimes even white cats had started to get a bad name.
