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All good possibilities. I always thought it was a bunch of brats that attacked a black cat, throwing stones at it, back in the day and then later encountered the cat's "caretaker" [an old woman] covered in bruises. Or at least that's one legend I heard surrounding the black cat = witch sha...

SpiritTalker wrote:Can we fail to recall the Grim? Really, I don't write the superstitions.

Grim as in Harry Potter? The brothers Grimm? The Norse Fossegrim? The sagas about Grim? Grimr as in Odin? None directly tie with this superstiton. Hence my confuson.

Hey I'm Sara.. Been a practicing wiccan since I was oh, about 14. That'd be nearly half my life. I got involved in it with grandma, who is Norwegian. Likes, a lot of things. Dislikes, not much. Hobbies; writing, painting, or training horses as that is something I learnt from dad. We own and breed Ar...

... Most bones are beige. Just sun bleached ones are white.

Then why not a black dog? Or a black wolf? Wolves always seen negatvely. Cats are lucky. Some old time sailors wouldn't go sailing withut a cat on board.

Can someone explain why black cats are the witch symbol.

I mean some areas, even if highly Christian / religious, the old superstitsions maintain that white cats are "evil" while black cats are good.

Star sign, air

serpentine necklace.

Ah I'd say one spell at a time