National Black Cat Day | October 27 | National Days
For National Black Cat Day – The Curious Little Black Cat
One little black cat named Zoey doesn't know, or more likely she doesn’t care, that she’s supposed to be striking fear into the hearts of all whose paths she crosses…
3 min readOct 27, 2023
Her name is Zoey and she’s more curious than scary, but more about her in a minute.
Writing about Zoey got me wondering where the superstition that black cats bring bad luck came from.
Where did the superstition about black cats originate?
According to History.com:
Pheobe Miller, an artist and folklore scholar, explains that the notion that black cats bring us bad luck simply by crossing our path originated in medieval Europe.
The idea that a black cat is on a witch’s errand was at the source of the belief, but another popular notion was that the devil himself was delivering a bad omen, disguised as a black cat.
But not everyone was on board with such superstitions surrounding black cats.
