Here comes the middle-ages in Europe and the black cat’s popularity crashed big time, associated with witches, black magic and bad luck.
The hysteria of witches and black magic had Europe in a frenzy and any old lady feeding stray cats were often accused of witchcraft.
Their cat companions, some of which were black ones were guilty of black magic simply by association.
People really believed that witches transformed themselves into black cats in order to move about unnoticed.
Even today the association between black cats, witches and Halloween have become a symbol of evil, Satanism and all things bad.
Well, we love our black cats, here they are:
