Over here some people believe that you should never let a black cat cross the road in front of you because it brings bad luck. I read somewhere that this tale can be traced to the time of the Phoenicians (spelling??). Apparently they kept cats (for some reason mainly black) on their ships to keep the mice at bay. When the ships approached the land the cats would run off the boats this would alert the people in the villages that the Phoenicians would soon ransack their properties. Funnily enough I think that in the UK black cats bring good luck.

Fair enough back then but how this belief is still existing in the year 2001 makes me quite mad. I think I wrote about this before, when I was younger there were some acquaintances of my parents who refused to come to our house because we had 2 black cats . I wonder whether this stupid beliefs made me particularly fond of black cats (I still have 2 and I consider myself very lucky to have them).