Tonight I was walking to my car in the parking lot from work, around 6:30 pm and a black cat came running out from under my car and ran right in front of me, looked at me, and crossed my path and ran off.
I watch someone get into a car next to mine right before and the cat never ran out.
What does this mean? For some reason I remember hearing years ago a black cat crossing your path is bad.
2007-01-14 12:36:03 · 28 answers · asked by divinemadness 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Abosolutly nothing, it is allrubbish. It is all a lack of God, have youever stepped on a crack? if you have is your mother backk broke? What about ladders, it isall kids rhymes, I break them all on a daily basis. Go in Christ
2007-01-14 14:19:26 · answer #1 · answered by gook_mother 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think cat 2 cancels out cat 1 Personally I like black cats. Started with 1, she had 5 (all black) 2 remain. She has had 4 more since then, so around here it is possible for 7 to cross your path at one time.
2016-03-28 21:55:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A black cat running is usually either chasing something or running away from something.
Same as a red cat running, a white cat running, or any cat for that matter.
The association you are looking at is a myth, probably dating back to when people were stupid enough to think cats were witches contact with Satan. So they killed the cats. Then, geee, rats were no longer in check because the balance of nature was out, and the rats multiplied, and so did their fleas. Do you know what came next? Plague, carried by fleas, and the black death.
So, what does this mean? It means that the cats are out doing their job, keeping the rat population in check in harmony with nature. And the fleas are being kept in check. No black plague.
But then again, we are making our own new plagues, aren't we, through ignorance again. Does anyone see a pattern here?
Take a bag of cat food and keep it in your car. Next time you see the cat, offer him food for keeping those diseases in check.
2007-01-14 12:52:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have had 4 BLACK CATS. I didn't have bad luck until after I got the third black cat. That cat is 16 years old. I don't think it is the cat giving me bad luck. My other black cat is 2 years old, she didn't bring anyone bad luck except herself.
She wouldn't stay inside, and last night she was hit by a car by a woman who was 7 months pregnant. She killed my cat and was really upset about it. I was hysterical, my little cat died in my arms. The woman was only upset, not because she killed my cat, but because she killed a black cat and was superstitious!!.
Anyone who believes this about black cats is an idiot!
2007-01-15 02:02:33 · answer #4 · answered by CAT LADY LOO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just means you startled the poor little thing!
I have black cats cross my path many times a day-- I live with 2 of them!
And if you are superstitious, remember that the Scots believe black cats are actually GOOD luck. My grandma bought me a beautiful sculpture of one as a housewarming gift....
2007-01-14 13:21:30 · answer #5 · answered by from HJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. I have a black cat cross my path every day for the last 7 years. He's walked slowly, stopping occasionally to lick his butt, run from the litter box after leaving a stintky poo behind, torment his mom, sit on my bladder in the morning until I can't stand it anymore and get up to feed him...
2007-01-14 12:43:07 · answer #6 · answered by nokhada5 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is just a silly superstition and nothing more. The only danger is beleiving in bad luck. It is superstution that almost caused the distinction of cats altogether in the 1600's during the puritan era.
2007-01-14 13:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe is good luck. I understand that if a white cat crossed your path is bad luck. But really it all depends on every ones believe.
2007-01-14 12:52:27 · answer #8 · answered by rosemary 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look a black cat does nothing its stupid when people think it will do somthing my grandma has a black cat and nothing happens to her even on friday the 13 it means nothing at all.
2007-01-14 12:46:51 · answer #9 · answered by go2dat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOTHING will happen. Superstician dictates some lengthy period of bad luck, but it's all a big lie. The cat was just going somewhere, and it saw you so it stopped to look. Don't worry.
2007-01-14 12:45:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means a cat came out from under your car, stopped, looked and you, decided that you didn't look too friendly so s/he ran off to find something more fun to do.
don't even bother stressing about this my friend.
2007-01-14 12:44:54 · answer #11 · answered by darklydrawl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋