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Show Black Cats and Evil ..... Linked in All Age That verdict lendered ngulust a Lynn (Muss.) woman charged, among other things, with having undertaken by her formulas "to still crying babies and fighting cats with equal ease," calls up a chapter In the lore of popular pop-ular beliefs to which every age contributes con-tributes new material. And for sheer Interest It Is the pugilistic felines, not the lachrymose In funis, which take the cake. That black cats portend evil is a delusion that goes back to the most ancient times ; so, white or black, they have everywhere been the material for all sorts of superstitions. In the Orient Or-ient cats have knowledge of the future fu-ture ascribed to them, along with a sensitiveness which can penetrate Into In-to things dark for the eye of man. When the cat tears at cushions or carpets car-pets It Is believed to be raising the wind. There Is sure to be changing weather if It aneer.es, and a frost may be looked for when the animal sits ' with its buck to the fire. |