The signs and superstitions associated with cats

It is believed that a cat can feel different changes: both bad and good. According to the actions of a cat, you can predict luck or unhappiness, weather, illness, etc. There are many different signs associated with the cat, which our ancestors believed from ancient times. Many signs are "international" and are found in different peoples of the world.

The cat often served our great great grandparents as a kind home "barometer" :

• It was believed that if the cat is fast asleep or belly up, then it is to heat and heat.
  
• If you sleep under the muzzle under the belly - to bad weather or cold.


• If the cat turns into a ball - it's frosty.


• If the lick is licking or spreading, there will be a blizzard.


• The sunny weather was predicted if the cat licked the paw, washed or lifted the hind paw.


• Good weather was expected if the cat licks its paw and smoothes the wool on the head. And if you lick the skin - it's to rage.


• If the cat scratches behind the ear - to rain or snow.


• Paws scratching the wall, half-full of blizzard, wind.


• Sharps claws on the leg of the table - the weather will change.


• Cat sneezes - to the rain.

• if the cat is mewing aboard the ship - this portends a difficult journey;


• if the cat is playing on board the ship - it foretells the wind in the back and rain in the face;


• If the cat is sitting with its back to the fire - there will soon be a storm;


• If the cat washes the muzzle over the ears - it will soon begin heavy rains.

A English fishermen, in turn, are especially fond of three-cat cats, because they believe that these animals can predict the storm. To see a drowned cat for a fisherman is a very bad sign, you can not go out into the sea.

There are also road signs, associated with the cat. Bad bad luck, if a cat of any color slips in front of the person who is on the road. Worst of all, if the cat ran from right to left. Earlier, when horses were the only means of transportation for long distances, they considered that "the horse is drying from the cat" and in no case took the cat with them on the road. And the same Englishmen still believe that "hearing the cat's cries, going on the road - not for good."

One of the most famous signs is when the cat "launches" the guests. It is believed that if the cat is washed (tert)paws), then we should wait for the visit. If the paws are cold at this time, then the guest will be unexpected or unkind, and if warm - then we should expect the arrival of friends or relatives. The peoples of the East, including the Chinese and the Japanese, believe that the cat that scratches the ear announces the arrival of high guests.

A cat can also predict benefit or affluence. When a cat reaches out to a person, it promises to benefit or update it. A Japanese traders believe that if the cat holds a left paw to the ear, then this - to a bargain. Chinese consider a cat as a keeper of wealth in the family. However, if a strange cat appears in the house, it is poverty.

Sneezing cats and cats are in high esteem. If you wish the sneezing cat health, then the teeth will not hurt. And English brides believe that if the cat sneezes next to them, the marriage will be happy.

Cats have long been prescribed ability to predict illnesses and death living in the house of people. The approach of disease or death is judged by the unusual and strange behavior of the animal:

• If the cat starts to smell the air exhaled by the person near the nose - this means the onset of the disease.


• If the patient wants to know whether he survives or dies, then he needs to take a cat to his bed - if the cat lies, he will get better, if not - he will die.


• When a cat lies near a patient, she "takes" the disease from him.


• If a cat often and for a long time sleeps on the bedside of someone's bed, then it is surely "due" to the owner of this bed and he will die.


• If the cat is lying on the table, it is not good - she is someone "crawling" out of the family, that is, someone from the family will die.


• There is a very popular belief that"The victim of a new death will be that of the living, who first after the incident in the house of death looks in the mirror." To prevent this, you must first bring the cat to the mirror.

Someone will write off all these cat abilities onmysticism, someone refers to this kind of signs very skeptical. Remember, because cats are very sensitive to heat, perhaps that is why they so well "predict" the weather and human diseases - a very often beginning disease accompanies a change in the temperature of a person's body.

To believe or not to believe in "cat's" signs - everyone decides for themselves. Remember the old song:

"... they say, no luck -

if the black cat crosses the road.

And while on the contrary -

only a black cat and does not carry ... "