Since antiquity, the figure of the black cat has prowled through humanity’s magical lore as an uncanny guardian bridging cosmic and earthly planes. Modern science is unlocking secrets of feline sensory capabilities far surpassing our own that help explain why black cats have been venerated and feared as otherworldly intermediaries since the earliest inklings of civilization…
Legends of the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet depict her escorted by an entourage of black cats who were considered sacred in temples. Archaeologists have unearthed mummified black cat offerings buried to honor Bastet some 4,000 years ago. Her festival celebrated cats’ mystical role in household guardianship. Egyptians believed cats could channel cosmic forces for protection, fertility, abundance, and divination rituals.
The sleek coats and inscrutable stares of black cats even inspired the Greek historian Herodotus to puzzle in the 5th century BCE over how they may obtain secret intelligence from “the divine.” Europeans in the Middle Ages invoked wild superstitions around black cats as shape-shifting witches or spirits that could portend misfortune. However, pagan lore, especially amongst witches, sorcerers and mystics generally revered the black cat as a trustworthy confidante with access to otherwise hidden or mysterious knowledge…
Today paranormal investigators have catalogued astonishing behaviors in domestic black cats suggesting heightened psychic sensitivities for: predicting earthquakes and weather shifts; locating lost objects by owner telepathic cues; dream-visiting absent caregivers; fraud and danger detection; compatriot healing through Reiki-like intention and focused staring; plant growth stimulation via aura adjustments; and reality-bending feats shrugging off physics as we know it.
Advances in quantum biology indicate black cats may have evolved unique ways of tapping a kind of faster-than-light perception akin to entanglement correlations which Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” Specialized rod cells in their retinas confer night vision acuity; their elliptical pupils wield greater light-gathering power…