The Black Cat image is  associated with a complex chain of ideas some of which led back to the Kongo. The word Kongo itself is derived from “Land of the Leopard”.  The black Leopard appears black but actually has dark spots in it's fur. It is the Panther that is totally Black.

 

Hoodoo's Black Cat

 

The Black Cat in Hoodoo is a sign of LUCK. Hoodoo Elders believed  that the Black Cat's purpose was to  hunt  or capture good luck just like other cats hunted and captured small creatures. To have one rub up against  you is seen as a sign of favor. The Black Cat was seen as being full of or the container of electro- magnetic energy , i.e. the electrical field or current that flowed between two separated magnets or poles. The Pagan European image of the Halloween cat with back up and hair standing is a symbol of static electricity! Static indicates ACTIVATION.  The black cat with it's hair standing on end due to static electricity is seen in Hoodoo as a similacrum of a fed lodestone!
 

Magnetism

 

The word magic comes from the Latin root magus probably absorbed from the Persian word magi which was probably a corruption of the Ethiopian Negus. The word stem of “mag” in magic takes us in English to magnet and  magnetism the powers of attraction. In Hoodoo formulary terms attraction is the  power to “draw” a thing to you, to PULL or reel it into your sphere. 

 

This type of thinking goes ALL the way back to the sacred pubic mound of the First African Woman endowed with the power of Ta Tanen, the primal hill upon which Ptah stood to create the visible world. Thus another attribute of the black cat or the black pussy is seen as the power to "draw across " to bring things from the unseen world into the physical realm.

 

The Black Cat's Origin

 

All parts of this animal are considered lucky, good for different  types of magical work:

¨       claws that grasp luck

¨     teeth sink into luck and then hold on to it

¨       fur attracts sparks and crackles with energy, holding power

¨       eye's that hypnotize and avert the evil eye

¨       bones give grace and agility- manuerving power, legend says one could even grant the power of invisibility.

On the physical level contact with the Black Cat is a double entendre & a visual pun on certain attributes of the African woman's luxuriously furry pubic mound.

 

The Black Cat in Egypt

 

Bast of Egypt was represented in black stone statuary as a  cat. Bast was said to be a Neter in her own right, but a reading of current information on this energy shows that there is no full understanding of her function or purpose other than defining her as the Eye of Ra.

 

Reigning Cats and Dogs

It is the DOG/JACKAL/WOLF that is associated with the MOON. The European adapted Tarot shows two dogs howling at the Moon in the imagery for that Trump. The pun would be that the European “dog” ma  chased away the Black pussy cat of Ancient African Ancestral Worship. 

 

The Black pussy cat totem of the African female was turned into a female dog, a bitch in heat. This switch  both changed and reduced the effectiveness of the totemic referent occulting it's esoteric function. The African female was “called outta her name”.In  the slang of the O.M., i.e. the old or previous Millennium, under the former constraints of the Greek New Testament, we would say that our black mother “got dogged”!!!

 

Tarot's Black Cat

 

The RWS Tarot association for the Spirit associated with the Black Cat is found on the Queen of Wands because in the deck this card actually shows a Black Cat. The seated black cat with the tail up is the symbol of good luck in the African in  America folklore.

 

Icons of the Totem

Eartha Kitt is an earthly incarnation of a Bast priestess. The DC graphic novel villianess, Cat-Woman also qualifies as an icon of the imagery. This image has been deluded by a current remodifi*cat*ion which places Halle Berry in the role using overt dominatrix imagery in place of natural sensual magnetic attraction.