Black cats are undoubtedly the most magical kind of felines.
Shimmering in the dark, black cats never look dirty or mangled – even if they’ve been out roughhousing with other critters.
And yet, unreasonably, loads of people are scared of black cats.
In America, the Puritan Pilgrims distrusted anything associated with witchcraft – including black cats – and they actively persecuted them (including actually burning black cats on Shrove Tuesday).
Today, people still think they bring bad luck – one of the reasons that folk tend to avoid adopting black cats (that, and the fact that they’re apparently Instagram unfriendly…).
According to Gizmodo, people have been known to torture black cats on Halloween, which is… Read the full story