What are the omens when a black cat crosses your path?

Question

Or a scraggly grey delinquent opportunist neighbour's cat is sitting on your front doorstep?

Answer 1

I have always thought it to be lucky if a black cat crosses your path, as for the scraggy grey cat belonging to the neighbour, it just wants a feed and a bed for the night I suppose.

Answer 2

When a black cat crosses your path, it generally means bad luck for you.

When a scraggly grey delinquent opportunist neighbour's cat is sitting on your front doorstep, this is not an omen.

Learn more about omens at Wikipedia here ->

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omen

Answer 3

If a black cat crosses your path right to left (anticlockwise) it is a sign of extreme good fortune coming your way. If clockwise the strength of the omen is diminished.

I learnt these from my Gran and we are in the Southern hemisphere so in the Northern hemisphere the directions might be the other way.

As for the scraggly opportunist, it means God/Allah/Gaia is giving you an opportunity to share your abundance with one less fortunate. This may be a test!

Answer 4

In Italy the black cat crossing your roas is considered as bringing bad luck. In England it's the opposite. Never heard about any special omen associated with grey cats!

Answer 5

i was brought up to believe a black cat is lucy crossing your path
but a white cat is unlucky.
my mum would never have playing cards in the house or peacock feathers, shoes and hairbrushes on the table (not that i'd put them there) also considered bad luck and sropping a spoon meant a letter a fork meant a woman coming to your door and a knife mean a mancoming to your door, knives couldnt be crossed either bad luck and seeing a magpie was also bad luck apart from all that lot ive not done too bad but i wont have peacock feathers in my home.

Answer 6

Good luck for the black cat, Greys meaning less

Answer 7

Nothing. The cat(s) is simply having its own good time. Just like us, having good times while having a cup of hot coffee early in the morning. Such thing only a coincidence. Ask yourself, which one you trust and believe the most? God or the pitiful, lovely-sometimes-ugly looking black cat crossing by to look for its own food or having its own good time?

Answer 8

It does depend on what your upbringing is, I had my parents saying that if a black cat crosses your path it brings you good luck in the future. Also if you see or hear an ambulance hold onto your collar and tug it you will have good health. there are a number of sayings to go with folklore.

Answer 9

Witches used to favor black cats. No big deal.
I have always had black cats. One walked right up to my
German Shepard and sniffed his nose. And my Shepard
was a cat killer. I hated it when he got one.
I named the cat CRAZY.
Another time I found a black cat on the street and took him home. I named him Ja Ja. An African name for Gods gift.
I got ran out of my home by some crackheads, always trying to
get in to smoke.
I had to give Ja Ja to the Humane Society. iIcouldn't keep him
outside any longer because it was supposed to freeze. A
few days later, he came to me in a dream. I felt warmth,
and knew he was letting me know he was okay.
Think animals don't have spirits? Read in the book of Job.
"Ask the Earth and it will teach you,
and the birds of the air and they will teach you,
and the fishes of the sea will declare it unto you!"

Answer 10

It is deemed very lucky when a BLACK cat crosses your path.

(sorry scraggly grey ones do not count)