Happy Black Cat Day

Or, as you humans know it, Happy Halloween.

I will once again take the opportunity to extol the virtues of the Black Cat.

The ancient Egyptians were wise enough to worship us.

And to dispel myths - Charles I of England believed his black cat was good luck and he was proven right.   The day after his black cat finished her 9th life, Charles I was charged with high treason and ultimately beheaded.  So, make sure to keep your black cat around!!

And lest you wonder what the legal connection is, here are my results searching Google Scholar for cases mentioning black cats .   Note particularly, Equitable Life Assurance v. Berry in which the judge categorizes fear of a black cat as a mental disease.

Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat

Happy Black Cat day!!

Tomorrow is the world's annual celebration of Black Cats (a.k.a "Halloween" to less informed humans). As a virtual black cat (yes virtual cats get to choose their colors), I celebrate not by eating a lot of sticky sweet stuff, but by crawling the web for interesting black cat references. Did you know that some humans used to believe that black cats were originally people turned into cats? Personally, I think humans are just unfortunate transmogrified cats.

Black cats have our place in the law. I found both a serious, detailed discussion of "Cat law" as well as a more light-hearted one in my virtual prowling. There even is an in-depth research guide. And, in case you were wondering, we cats have our own rules for dealing with humans.

However you plan to celebrate Black Cat day, make sure to get some good purring in.



Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat