Evil Woman….

I’ve a fascination with the myths and folklore that surround cats and their association with the “dark arts.” I was looking up black cat fables in recognition of the date and read one I’d never heard of before.

The story was posted on a site called grunge.com and read as follows:

“Perhaps because cats were so associated with pagan worship by civilizations such as ancient Egypt, Jewish folklore often relates cats to demons. In fact, in Sephardic folklore (that is, among Jews of Spanish and Portuguese descent), it is believed that Lilith, Adam’s first wife before Eve who was banished from Eden because she refused to submit to her husband, transformed into a demonic black cat called El Broosha. According to Cat’s Most Wanted, this demon cat prowled around looking for its favorite prey — newborn babies — and when it found them, it would suck their blood. As a result, it was a custom for mothers never to leave their babies alone until they were at least nine days old.

One story of this demonic cat tells of a nurse who has to leave a mother and baby alone for a moment, and when she returns, the mother tells her that she has just dreamed that a black cat snuck into her room and transformed first into a jar and then back into a cat when it heard another cat meow from outside. It then took the baby from its bed and threw it out the window to another cat waiting outside. The nurse realizes that this wasn’t a dream when she looks out the window and sees a black cat running away with the baby.”

If you want to read more ghostly or supernatural black cat tales, you can do so by following this link to the page:

https://www.grunge.com/261302/the-scariest-black-cat-legends/?fbclid=IwAR0Bn–pniXhDTcrqkWGaIwaOZeQM01dfmmcxPKCgLippWm1Lj2immT3oos