The fear of black cats and superstitions associated with them has a relatively resent origin, going back to the Middle Ages. It was a very different story in Ancient Egypt were cat was domesticated around 3000BC. All cats including black ones, were held in high esteem amongst the Ancient Egyptians and were protected by law from injury and death. If a cat was to die the pets death was mourned by the entire family, and both rich and poor embalmed the bodies of their cats. They were wrapped fine linen, placed in a mummy case made from precious materials. In resent times entire cat cemeteries have been found by archaeologists.
fed by the poor, especially lonely old women. When the witch hunts of began in Europe many of these homeless women were accused of being witchs, thier cats (especially the black cats) were also deemed guilty of witchery by association. During this time many societies attempted to drive the into extinction. The witch hunts mounted into parannoia, many innocent women and their cats were burned at the stake. It got so bad that if a baby born with eyes to bright, a personality to precocios was killed for the fear that it might be host to a spirit that would in time become a witch by day and a black cat by night. The notion of witchs transforming themselves into black cats in order to prowl the streets at night unobserved became a central belief in North American during the Salem witch hunts. In France thousands of cats were killed and buried every month until King Louis XIII in the 1630s halted the practice.
The fear of black cats and superstitions associated with them has a relatively resent origin, going back to the Middle Ages. It was a very different story in Ancient Egypt were cat was domesticated around 3000BC. All cats including black ones, were held in high esteem amongst the Ancient Egyptians and were protected by law from injury and death. If a cat was to die the pets death was mourned by the entire family, and both rich and poor embalmed the bodies of their cats. They were wrapped fine linen, placed in a mummy case made from precious materials. In resent times entire cat cemeteries have been found by archaeologists.fed by the poor, especially lonely old women. When the witch hunts of began in Europe many of these homeless women were accused of being witchs, thier cats (especially the black cats) were also deemed guilty of witchery by association. During this time many societies attempted to drive the into extinction. The witch hunts mounted into parannoia, many innocent women and their cats were burned at the stake. It got so bad that if a baby born with eyes to bright, a personality to precocios was killed for the fear that it might be host to a spirit that would in time become a witch by day and a black cat by night. The notion of witchs transforming themselves into black cats in order to prowl the streets at night unobserved became a central belief in North American during the Salem witch hunts. In France thousands of cats were killed and buried every month until King Louis XIII in the 1630s halted the practice.
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