Showing posts with label black cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black cats. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Black Cats Killed by Italian Satanists

http://news.scotsman.com/12007/Not-so-lucky-for-black.4373883.jp

The Scotsman
9 August 2008

Not so lucky for black cats killed by satanists in Italy

By Nick Pisa in Rome

DOZENS of black cats are vanishing across Italy every day to be used in Satanic rituals, an animal welfare group has revealed.

In the last few weeks, black cats - strays as well as pets - have vanished from the streets of Milan, Rome, Florence and Venice. The Italian Association for the Defence of Animals and the Environment (Aidaa) estimates 60,000 were killed last year, to ward off bad luck, but also for use in satanic rites and in cosmetics laboratories where black fur gives the best results. [...]

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Italy's "Black Cat Day" Aims to Halt Killings

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL1759686620071117

Reuters
17 November 2007

Italy's "black cat day" aims to halt killings

ROME (Reuters) - Saturday is "black cat day", in Italy, an initiative by an
animal rights group to try to stop the killing of thousands of the cats by
superstitious citizens convinced they bring bad luck. [...]

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Ritual Cat Sacrifices on Halloween

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071026-halloween-cat.html

National Geographic
26 Oct 2007

Ritual Cat Sacrifices a Halloween Myth, Experts Say

Maryann Mott
for National Geographic News

[Many animal shelters halt adoptions of black cats in the weeks preceding Halloween. The article features a photograph of a dead black cat, duct-taped to a cross, which had been left at an Iowa City animal shelter in 2004.]

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Black Cats Killed in Italy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/26/wcat126.xml

Sunday Telegraph [UK]
26 August 2007

Bad luck for black cats in Italy

By Carmiola Ionescu, Sunday Telegraph

A leading animal rights group has estimated that 60,000 black cats are killed every year by Italians who believe that they bring bad luck.

The Italian Association for the Protection of Animals and the Environment claims that some are also killed as part of black magic rituals. [...]