Black cat is Halloween symbol
Once again, with arching cupied a unique place in the
back and luminous eyes, the human imagination and
black cat becomes a symbo! superstition. The ancient
of Halloween - compamon to Egyptains worshipped and
witches and the embodiment made them guardians of
of the occult and mysterious, their holy temples. When the
Since the dawn of sacred cats died, their
civilization, cats have oc- bodies were mummified and
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grandly entombed along
with mummified mice to
provide for their nourish
ment in the hereafter.
In medieval Europe the
public “image” of cats
varied rather wildly. At one
time cats, particularly black
cats, were feared as har
bingers of evil spntis. Later,
cats helped get rid of rodents
which were carriers of the
Black Plague. As a result,
cats were welcomed into
kitchens and barns and
given a well-earned place of
honor on the family hearth.
Superstitions die hard,
however, and many an
otherwise sensible in
dividual will do anything to
avoid having a black cat
cross his path, just as there
are those who will not walk
under a ladder or open an
umbrella indoors.
Probably no one has polled
cat owners as to whether
mother cats with new litters
have more trouble finding
homes for their jet black
progeny then for their white
or beige or tiger-striped
children, but there are a
good many cases when an
all-black cat was the last
litter to fine a really good
home.
Perhaps it is time that a
campaign be launched to
remind animal lovers that
love is color blind and that
black cats be placed in their
proper niche as animals of
unusual beauty and good
companions to people. A
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29,1977
booklet devoted to the in
terests of cat lovers and
their pets of all colors, called
the CARE AND FEEDING;
OF YOUR CAT, is available
free of charge. Write:
Friskies Pamphlets, P.O.
Box 220, Department H, Pico
Rivera, California 90665.
Farm
Women’s
Calendar
Saturday, October 29
Lancaster Co. Society 30
Halloween Costume Party,
at the barn of Larry and
Carol Weaver.
Tuesday, November 1
Lancaster Co. Society 23
meeting, hostess Jean Funk.
Thanksgiving baskets will be
packed.
Thursday, November 3
Berks Co. Society 9
meeting at the Reading
Women’s Club. Speaker will
be Gloria Rhoads.
Lancaster Co. Society 17
meeting, 1 p.m., hostess is
Ann Leed, program is
weaving by Miriam
Leaman.
Lancaster Co. Society 20
meeting, 1:30 p.m.
Lancaster Co. Society 21
meeting, hostess is Barbara
Long. Program is gift
wrapping.
Saturday, November 5
Lancaster County Farm
Women Society Convention
at the Farm and Home
Center, Lancaster, Pa.
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