ep32 Black Cats

Black Cat does bring bad luck, and attorney wins an impossible case. A strange lawsuit is never actually heard. Can you imagine that? Once again, ladies and gentlemen, this is Lindsay McCarry speaking to you from my laboratory of amazing news stories, strange facts, and little-known historical incidents.

In just a moment or two, my cohorts and I are going to be back with you, and until then we hope you'll wait for us. We act to all the old superstitions that have been kicking around this world of ours for centuries.

Are you afraid to walk under a ladder? You always knock on wood when telling a piece of good luck? And do you avoid allowing a black cat to walk across your path? Do you know the origin of that particular superstition?

Well in the old days when people actually believe in witches, it was thought that any witch could change herself into any sort of animal form, and that the favorite animal form of most witches was a black cat first because a black cat was difficult to see at night, and second because a cat had nine lives and the witch could make nine changes without losing her own life.

But nowadays we're not superstitious, who says a black cat brings bad luck? I do. You count me in on that too. Well, those two dissenting voices might be W.G. Benton and James E. Spreggens of Atlanta, Georgia.

And why are they so emphatic about black cats bringing bad luck? Well it was on the 16th day of February 1939 and Mr. Benton and Mr. Spreggens decided... Sure. That stuff about black cats being bad luck is just a lot of superstition and old wives tales.