#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #NationalBlackCatDay, #Catlore & #31DaysofHaunting: `On Samhain, it was believed that a cat-sìth would bless any house that left a saucer of milk out for it to drink and those houses that did not put out a saucer of milk would be […]

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#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #NationalBlackCatDay, #Catlore & #31DaysofHaunting: `On Samhain, it was believed that a cat-sìth would bless any house that left a saucer of milk out for it to drink and those houses that did not put out a saucer of milk would be cursed into having all of their
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#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #NationalBlackCatDay, #Catlore & #31DaysofHaunting:
`Methods of "distraction" such as games of leaping and wrestling, catnip, riddles and music would be employed to keep the cat-sìth away from the room in which a corpse lay. In […]

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#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #NationalBlackCatDay, #Catlore & #31DaysofHaunting:
`Methods of "distraction" such as games of leaping and wrestling, catnip, riddles and music would be employed to keep the cat-sìth away from the room in which a corpse lay.
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Oude Rode Ogen, or Old Red Eyes, is a black dog called the Beast of Flanders. Said to hunt children who terrorize their parents, one origin suggests he is the spirit of a vagrant wrongly lynched after a failed child kidnapping, come back for vengeance. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday

According to the Chiloe people of Chile, a black cat is necessary when hunting the carbuncle: when digging holes, you must throw a black cat into them. This does not harm the cat, and it will be returned to the hunter unharmed. Without this, death is imminent. #FolkloreSunday

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In early Welsh literature, the white-furred, red-eared Cŵn Annwn are the hunting dogs of the Welsh Otherworld of Annwn, running ahead of their lords, Arawn and Gwyn ap Nudd.

#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #NationalBlackCatDay, #Catlore & #31DaysofHaunting: During a wake a dead corpse leaped up as the midnight bell tolled and shouted out
“All alone, fair maid!” but she wasn't long answering him back!
“All alone I am not,
I've little dog Douse and Pangur the cat,
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#FolkloreSunday for a #Celtic #NationalBlackCatDay, #Catlore & #31DaysofHaunting:
#FolkloreSunday: During a wake a dead corpse leaped up as the midnight bell tolled and shouted out
“All alone, fair maid!” but she wasn't long answering him back!
“All alone I am […]

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In Welsh #mythology, the Hounds of Annwn are spectral dogs accompanying Arawn in the Wild Hunt. They are ghostly dogs with white fur and red eyes that chase the damned.
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“I went in, in the likeness of a kea (jackdaw), the said Elspeth Chisholm was in the shape of a cat.”
Isobel Gowdie’s 1662 witchcraft confession. Picture taken at Haddo Country Park. #FolkloreSunday #Scotland

#FolkloreSunday obviously.

“This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.”

—EDGAR ALLAN POE, "The Black Cat"

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“Black cat on a fence; Halloween two days hence.”

–RUSTY FISCHER

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WITCHY CAT NAMES
PYEWACKET is the name of a witch's familiar found by witchfinder general Matthew Hopkins, 1644. GRIMALKIN another witchy name derives from 'grim' grey, 'malkin', a hare or spinster; Graymalkin is the witches' familiar in Shakespeare's Macbeth #FolkloreSunday #31daysofHalloween

In Scottish and Irish folklore, the cù-sìth is a green fairy dog the size of a small cow. It normally hunts silently, but will sometimes bark three times. These barks can be heard for miles; anyone who hears them must reach a safe place by the third bark or die of fright.
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⛈️🐾⛈️The legendary hound 'Black Shuck' was said to have attacked the churchgoers at Bungay in Suffolk, during a violent storm that struck the village in 1577.
#FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday

In British and Irish folklore, sailors valued black cats as "ship's cats" to bring good luck and ensure a safe voyage.

Fishermen's wives also kept them at home to protect their husbands at sea.

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In Scottish and Irish folklore, a mythical faerie called a Cait-Sith ("cat-shee"), or Cait-Sidhe in Irish, takes the form of a large black cat with a white spot on its chest.

This may be the origin of the association of black cats with #Halloween.

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In ancient Egypt, cats —especially black ones— were revered as sacred.

I named my first cat —a beautiful, black, long-haired fur baby— "Isis." I miss her every day.

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