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A friend in Hawai'i during dinner a few years agone mentioned that a black cat had crossed his path the previous day while he was en route to some large, math-related test for his big, math-related master's degree. When he specified that it was a black community cat (the Academy of Hawai'i has a big community cat population), our group gave up three simultaneous reactions to black cats.

"Aww!" I said, because I'chiliad me. And because I enjoyed the company of the Academy of Hawai'i community cats more than about students.

"Uh-oh!" my born-and-raised American friend said

"Oh!" said my Japanese friend — with a smile.

Near understood my American friend's reaction — "Did you feel jinxed for your examination?" some people asked — only I preferred my Japanese friend's response: "Merely that's good!"

Blackness cats are lucky in a lot of cultures. Photography ©earth2015 | Thinkstock.

Black cats and luck — an overview

Unlike much of the western world, Japanese culture sees a black cat crossing your path as a good omen. In fact, black cats are more often than not seen equally good luck in Japan and much of Asia. My Chinese mother, the Feng Shui primary, specifically put her black cat's bed on the n side of her domicile to ward off evil.

"Tiptoe is a very lucky true cat," she said. "Expert luck follows her."

I think Tiptoe just likes that her bed is nearest the coveted space heater in the winter.

So are black cats adept luck? Let'south look at these skillful black cat luck superstitions effectually the world:

Black cats are known to anoint marriages. Photography past ueuaphoto / Shutterstock.

i. They bless marriages

English superstition says that giving a helpmate a blackness cat on her hymeneals 24-hour interval will bring her practiced luck in her matrimony. Information technology's too thought that newlyweds with a black cat in their abode will take a long, happy life together, and the black true cat will ward off evil spirits. In much of the United kingdom, the black of a true cat is a lucky color.

While I don't necessarily condone giving cats as gifts, newlyweds or spouses-to-be should rejoice in sharing their dwelling with a black kitty.

If you're a woman still looking for that special someone, Japanese superstition says a black cat will bring a unmarried woman many skillful suitors.

2. Black cats depict wealth and prosperity

Y'all might have seen the "Fortune Cats" or Maneki Neko that populate Japanese civilisation. Those little cat figurines with the raised paws are meant to draw good luck, wealth and prosperity to their owners. Often they are white, but Lucky Cats as well come in blackness.

A black Lucky Cat non just brings luck but also frightens away demons, evil energy, and stalkers. (Yes, stalkers.)

3. They make prophylactic homes and good harvests

Also, as my Feng Shui-inclined mom says, black cats possesses strong powers of practiced. If you keep your black cats happy and safe, they will keep you happy and safe. If you don't have a blackness cat in real life to guard your domicile, a blackness true cat figurine facing northward will keep bad energy and spirits away.

And while we're on the discipline of gods and demons, in Norse mythology the goddess of love, fertility and beauty, Freya, rides on a chariot pulled by ii blackness cats. To win favor with Freya, farmers would go out bowls of milk for her companions in their fields. Freya would then anoint them with a good harvest.

4. Black cats in the audience aid a play

Cats are excellent audience members. Just inquire my cat Brandy when I am moved to dance when my playlist cycles through to "Build Me Up Buttercup." To theater folks in many cultures, there is no better audience member than a black cat. If a black cat finds its way into your audience on opening night, your play will have a long and prosperous run.

5. Black cats lead to treasure

It's also been long believed that black cats invite not only fortune in the way of expert luck, simply also in the way of wealth. French peasants long believed that if a black cat was released at a crossroads where five roads intersect, the blackness cat would lead them to treasure.

6. Respecting a blackness cat brings fortune

And in the south of France, black cats have been chosen "matagot" and are known equally "sorcerer cats" or even "money cats." If shown the proper respect — like being given the first seize with teeth of dinner, having a nice bed to sleep in or having a abode even afterwards their possessor's death — the matagot will reward their person with wealth and good luck. (This conventionalities does accept some ties to black cats and negative connotations of witchcraft, but I choose to look at it as those who do not treat their cats well get their comeuppance.)

7. Black cats give sailors safety travels

English sailors could probably accept used a matagot in their dwelling house to bring them some actress wealth. In ye olde times, blackness cats were thought to be so lucky and such and assurance that sailors would return safely habitation from body of water that many black cats toll so much every bit to exist unaffordable for seafarers.

Black cat or not, I'm sure most of our feline family members would agree that having the first bite of our dinners is well within their rights.

Plus, check out the reasons there are myths about black cats in the start identify >>

Thumbnail: Photography by Vincent Mounier / Shutterstock.

This piece was originally published in 2015.

Read more nearly cats and luck on Catster.com:

• 5 Interesting Facts Well-nigh Maneki Neko (Lucky Cats or Fortune Cats)
• Are Cat Whiskers Skillful Luck? five Myths and Superstitions Surrounding Cat Whiskers
• Has a Black Cat Ever Been Your Lucky Talisman?

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