Many people all over the world regard the sight of a black cat as inauspicious. If a cat crosses our path, we take it as a bad omen. Do you know why a cat in general and a black cat in particular are considered inauspicious?
In fact, it is nothing but superstitious to consider a cat inauspicious. This superstition goes back to a belief of thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians worshipped the cat. They had a goddess called Pasht whose head resembled that of a cat. They believed that this goddess had nine lives. Whenever a black cat died in Egypt, its dead body was preserved as a mummy (preserved corpse of a human being or animal). Remains of thousands of black cats have been recovered from a cemetery of Egypt. Killing a cat was then considered as an offence, punishable with a death sentence. Thus people had a great fear of the sight 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 a black cat was a bad omen. Thus people have been suffering from this superstition for many centuries. The truth is that no cat is inauspicious. The cat is a pet animal that was domesticated about 5000 years ago.