Feline Folklore....

by SassyJazmine

They say that black cats are bad luck, well that couldn’t be farther from the truth, I after all, am the original Good Luck Kitty, and I am black. There are also a lot of strange Feline Folklore floating around too, so I thought I would share some of with you today.

•In 16th -century England, visitors kissed the family cat to bring good luck. So I say come on over to my house and kiss me on the lips!!!

•According to an American superstition, if you put the cat in through a window in a new home, rather than the front door, the cat will never leave. But I don’t know about this because I came in through the front door of an old house and have never left.

•If a cat washes behind its ears, it will rain, according to an English superstition. I find that hard to believe also, because I keep my ears very clean and we had drought conditions for a long time. However, it has rained all week and Mom just put some flea stuff on me, so how does that figure in to this superstition?

•A Scottish superstition says that it is believed that discovering a black cat on your porch brings you prosperity. Now I like the sound of that.

•According to superstition in France, if you discover a single white hair upon a black cat, Lady Luck will smile upon you. My Mom likes this one, because I have suddenly developed one white whisker.

•Then there is the English superstition that if a black cat resides in the same house as a young woman, she will have plenty of suitors. Mom says it probably only works with “young” young ladies, because she is single and has no suitors, but then she doesn’t live in England either.

•On Britain’s Yorkshire coast, fishermen’s wives believe that if a black cat is kept in the house, their husbands will return home safely from the sea. Well we live by the sea but there is no husband or fisherman or boat..... hummmm wonder what that means.

•In the English Midlands, a bride is believed to have good luck if she receives a black cat as a wedding present, maybe that explains it.

•According to European superstition, black cats were once regarded as royalty in the homes of English sailors. It was believed that fair weather at sea was guaranteed if these felines were happy at home. At the time, black cats became so exorbitantly priced that very few sailors could afford them. Don’t tell Meowmie the end of this tail, I want her to keep pampering me so that I will be happy, happy, happy.

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