Although the Bible does not specifically mention cats, early Christian pilgrims were highly suspicious of other religions, and they deemed the black cat to be so demonic that being seen with one could be punishable by death.Īlthough the 18th century saw people beginning to question superstitions – such as the belief that a woman’s wart was a teat suckled by Satan – negative connotations of the relationship between cats and women remained.
The Ancient Egyptians worshipped Bastet, a woman with a head of a cat. Unlike dogs, they refuse to obey and be domesticated. Why would cats get such a satanic rep? We can only guess.
Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images Upper portion of a bronze figure of Bastet holding a cat aegis.
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