Da Ugly Devil's Heaven

Millions of people all over the world have this superstition that seeing a black cat is inauspicious. In our country too they have this belief that if a black cat crosses your path, we take it as a bad omen. I just read about something about the black cat in one of my old magazines and found out some interesting fact which takes us back to thousands of years. Cats particularly black cats have been treated as inauspicious from those days. But personally, I don’t believe in this superstition. I might find it awkward as I was brought up in the same community with people believing about lots of superstitious things.

The ancients Egyptians worshipped the cat. They had a goddess called “Pasht” whose had resembled that of a cat. They believe that this goddess had nine lives. Whenever a black cat died in Egypt, its dead body was preserved as a mummy. Remains of thousands of black cats have been recovered from a cemetery of Egypt. Killing a cat was treated as an offence, punishable with death sentence. Thus people had a great fear of a black cat.

During the middle ages, witches and witch doctors always used the skull of a black cat to prepare mysterious medicines. As a result people started thinking that the black cat was bad. Thus people have been suffering from this superstition for many centuries. This is only an example of superstition we have in our world. Mostly in the country I live, Nepal, there are lots of superstitions which have really been a problem from thousands of years. It even proves fatal to some people when they are accused of harming other people with their witch powers. No living thing should ever be treated as inauspicious either human or a black cat for that matter, as there is nothing as inauspicious except the things our mind that leads us think it is; that is nothing but pure superstition.