If you painted a black cat white, and it crossed your path, would you still get bad luck?

Question

I always wondered if the bad luck existed on the surface level, or if it ran deeper. Can anybody help me out with this?

On a similar note, if a black cat crosses your path, and you can convince the black cat to moonwalk backwards over your path going the other way, would that undo the bad luck? (It can be done! Most cats will moonlwalk when they hear Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. It's some instinctive feline reaction.)

I'm not sure if I posted this one in the best place. I'm assuming superstition would fall under folklore. (If I posted it in Cats, I would have probably gotten odd looks.)

Alwyn - Absolutely. I would only paint a black cat white if it volunteered to be painted. I wouldn't paint one against their will. Although, there are benefits to being a white cat. You're more visible at night, for starters. Also, you don't have to worry about superstitious people fleeing everytime they see you.

Answer 1

You would have worse luck than if a natural black cat crossed your path.

Why you wonder...cause as soon as that wet paint brush touched his fur he would turn a 180 in mid air for your face, lay a track of scratches from your paint brush laden hand to the top of your head.

Peel out across your scalp, taking some hair and skin with him, hit the paint bucket on the way out dumping it all over you.

Leaving your defenseless, scratched, bleeding, white latex drenched body in a heap.

PS - I own a black cat and I refuse to let her listen to Billie Jean.

Definitely Bad Luck!.

Answer 2

now the basic question is, how are you going to get the cat to sit still long enough to paint it white. Let's be real, cats do not like to be painted any color, they don't even like to be washed. I'm sorry, you are someone who takes this seriously and I shouldn't make fun of you, and don't really mean to, it's not nice to fool around with people's belief's and it shouldn't have been placed under "cats". I have enough of my own, what others may believe are crazy beliefs. But, if you are a true believer that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck, I truly believe that it is the cat, and it doesn't matter if you paint the cat or not, it's the cat, and it doesn't matter if you tie-dye it, it's still going
to have the same essence when it crosses your path.
As far as a cat going backwards and undoing the bad luck, gee, never thought of that. I can't say I'm a superstitutious person, and have owned a black cat who has certainly crossed my path many a time, and I don't think of myself as having particularly bad luck. But I do love your refering to it as "moonwalking". I never really thought of it that way. I have a cat named Pyewacket, and there is a name for a cat if you believe in the supernatural. I wonder if you know the background of that name. It goes way back, but most people know it from the movie "Bell Book & Candle" where the cat was a Siamese and the familiar to a witch (played by Kim Knovack). She stroked the cat and her wishes were granted. Anyway, my Pyewacket is a bit strange in her own way, and she tends to walk backwards a lot of the time, sort of dances backwards and come to think of it, it is like she is moonwalking, so thank you for bringing that to my attention, but I don't listen to Michael Jackson.
But I'm not sure I've answered your question. I just can't get behind a lot of the basics behind a lot of things like black cats, broken mirrors and those kind of things, but I do believe in a lot of things that are supernatural,so I don't totally rule anything out in this life, and I certainly don't think you are crazy to believe in what you do believe. You have all the rights to believe what you do. Don't let anyone talk you out of your beliefs, they hurt nobody, but don't judge others if they don't agree with you.

Answer 3

From the answers you have received, my guess would be you should have posted it somewhere else. However, it doesn't matter if you paint or bleach the black cat white, it is still bad luck. And having a cat moonwalk backwards will not undo the bad luck. Go find a four-leaf clover.

Answer 4

Um? If a black cat crosses your path it's not bad luck. That's just old wives tales.

Answer 5

In England, a black cat is lucky.

I don't think painting a cat would change its luck, it would just make the cat angry and sick.

Answer 6

your bad luck exponentially increases by painting a white cat black, because now you have added the angry curses of the cat to your already shaky position.

Answer 7

What if you painted a white cat black?

Answer 8

What do you have to say if I responded with the assertion that we are ALL black cats on some level? Is color the criterion for damnation? I just do not believe that? Is God so silly?

Answer 9

Why bother? The "bad luck" doesn't work against you unless you believe it will.

Answer 10

Leave the poor cats alone. They never do anyone any harm unless they are threatened.