well you can't call it halloween without having a black cat right this is black bean he's jz's
reptiles resident black cat and he is absolutely a little monster not because that he's a black cat
just he's a cat in general cats are kind of little monsters and we'll see how long he stays up here
for us but we'll see so black bean he's still pretty young he's only a year old so he's still
a little baby but i'm talking a little bit about why black cats are so synonymous with halloween
you know it kind of dates back back to kind of like the 14th century-ish back in europe
where for you know cat's been part of everybody's cultures spiritual religious whatever beliefs for
literally all time from egyptians and even further back but back in kind of the 14th century when
like pagan rituals and things like that and in in witches witches really started to kind of and
there he goes that's okay well we tried huh black bean they really started to kind of gain some
ground and a big part of witchcraft or paganism or or wicked or wiccans is being one with nature
and so a big part of that is kind of having like an animal companion or a part of nature that's
close to you and so because of that the kind of christians of the time started to associate
them with stars associate the witches and wiggins with black cats as their familiars
and they started to think that they had you know magical powers and yeah he's over there
he's tearing up his taco truck um and so because of that also because they're nocturnal they're
independent they roam around at night all of that kind of adds and builds to this conception that
cats and specifically black cats because they're black they're dark
you can't see them well at night all adds to just being associated with witchcraft
with not being a christian and therefore with the devil ties the occult and all that stuff
they were very very much associated all animals specifically black dogs and cats and
dogs cats in general really well associated with if you had
a cat companion or if you were thought of being a witch or practicing witchcraft you were very
quickly punished not just that really all smile animals toads rats mice obviously the snake
so it's just one of those things that unfortunately because they are independent
because they are nocturnal they kind of do their own thing they end up getting associated with that
one way or the other where you know around the 18th century something happened with pirate with
like germanic type pirates where they thought that you know if a black cat crossed your path one way
that was bad luck but if they crossed the path the other way it would bring faith and fortune
so all sorts of weird stuff but for the most part what usually happens negative ends up
getting carried through not just with this but with everything in life right so because
of that black cats got tied in with witchcraft with halloween but as we've now kind of learned
let's it's it's not a religious thing they're not tied to the devil cats are kind of crazy little
animals themselves but has nothing to do with witchcraft or magic or the underworld or the devil
or anything like that so coming up if you think about this halloween and you think about your cat
the biggest thing you can kind of do is make sure that you keep your cat indoors specifically during
halloween where everyone's kind of running around and there's a lot of traffic but in all honesty
if you guys out there could please keep your cats indoor in general and sorry i've reached a little
bit of the psa portion of this video cats out running around during the day or at night cause
so much damage to natural populations of animals because they just kill kind of indiscriminately
that they are very detrimental to wild populations of animals really the only thing
worse than cats to wild animals is us so this halloween and general please please please plea
please keep your black kitty indoors hope you enjoyed this little video
had to do one about black cats because as much as like toads rats and everything else
are tied in with halloween there is no more iconic animal than the black cat for halloween
hope you enjoyed this video if you have any questions let me know in the comments hit me up
on any of the outlets hope you guys have a great halloween and we'll stay tuned for the next video