Black Cat Superstition Belief. There they would bring a black cat out in the river and force the cat to swim around for a while splashing water on the cat and each other. In sumatra there was a similar superstition.
To dream of a cat is unlucky. A german cat superstition says that to dream of a black cat at christmas is a warning of a serious illness to come. Therefore the distrust of cats was originated.
In scotland the arrival of a strange black cat to your home is said to be a sign of prosperity and obviously a very good omen.
2* it is good to have a black cat as a pet. Normans and germanic people believed that, like the black raven, a black cat was a sign that a death would soon occur. Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. Wives of fishermen would take in black cats as they believed they were a lucky charm to ensure their husbands would return home.