In an ode to the mysterious power of the black cat Scorpio sage and national treasure, Margaret Atwood writes: “In the pewter mornings, the cat, a black fur sausage with yellow Houdini eyes ...

But who are the Black Cat and Silver Sable? Felicia Hardy had to work up to her bad-luck powers, however; originally, she was the daughter of a thief who adopted a costume to break her father out ...

Black Cat can cause people to have bad luck. In her early stories, Felicia’s powers weren’t entirely explicit, but whenever she warned people not to cross her, something inexplicably ...

And the idea that cats were evil, particularly black cats, had staying power. Most serious scholars dismiss the connection between black cats and the increased ravages of the plague, but it didn’t ...