Why are black cats associated with witches?
actually, it originally was white cats associated with witches. eventually, people switched to black cats because “black” was “evil”. http://www.matchmypet.com/PetForums/Blac… It was believed in the Middle Ages that witches used black cats as their “familiars”, which were creatures who could communicate with the spirit world. Familiars were said to help the witches whenever they cast spells. So strong was this belief that for many years, it was said that the only way to stop an evil spell was for a person to shoot a black cat with a silver bullet.
