Show I Black Cat Superstitions Meet a black cat at the beginning ginning of the morning and at once you have a nice warm feeling that its it's going to be a lucky day for you says a writer in London Tit-Bits Tit magazine The origin of this pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas- pleas ant superstition reaches back a longway longway long long- longway way to the days of early eaLy Egypt There the cat was regarded as a a- sacred animal and since the majority majority majority ma ma- of the cats ter were rere sandy colored colored colored col col- col- col ored or tabby a pure black cat was held in p particular reverence the Egyptian deity was was' represented by a figure having a human body and a cats cat's head Though generally accounted luck- luck bringers in the Middle l ages black cats were on the other hand associated associated associated asso asso- with witchcraft and a powerful powerful power power- ful lul ingredient of a witch's foul brew was the brains of a newly slaughtered slaughtered slaughtered black tom torn cat In the East where cats cah roam about wild a black black- cat eat passing yen on your right side is considered lucky but ion km n your left unlucky J I |