BLACK CAT MYTHS

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You know in every story witch we can be sure there is a "black cat" of his. By Halloween night this year, a symbol of black cats sold in the form of small doll or a key chain at various selling accessories. Why a black cat is always associated with witchcraft or magic world?

This stems from the history of the ancient Babylonian era when a black cat in a ritual ceremony dedicated to burn with other offerings. This myth arises because there is a black cat who slept in the midst of a snake with pulasnya, at that moment a snake is a symbol of evil.

This understanding continues to grow until mid-century. In Germany, there is a belief that if there is a black cat that jumped into the sick bed, death will come on the sick person. Another with the beliefs of Normandy, they believed if the way you see a black cat that was crossing in the middle of a full moon, they believe that you will be attacked by an epidemic.

In Firlandia, the people there believe that the cat hitamlah that brings the human soul into the afterlife. In China, the presence of a black cat is a sign that they will be exposed to disease or will become poor.

His story changed a little elsewhere, in India, the reincarnated soul can be relieved by throwing black cats onto the fire. There is a legend of Bengali that there is a woman who could change the human soul into a black cat, and every black cat that hurt will hurt her too.

Community Celts believed that black cats can predict the future. Druids of ancient Britain at the time believed that the cat is the incarnation of someone who do evil in the past then the law becomes a black cat.

Well, blame the druids, for they have been link the black cat with Halloween, ghosts and witches.

There are also other faiths, who said that black cat is one of the witches disguise. Though no witnesses have ever witnessed a witch who turns into a black cat or a black cat that turns into a witch, but they say that one day they hurt a black cat and black cat was injured, and keesokaan day they found the same wound The same place the cat on a woman injured.

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