black cats

My Black Cat’s Superstitions Are Sexier Than Yours – You Can Has Podcast!

by podblack on February 13, 2009

You can find out if that’s true by subscribing to the special Friday the Thirteenth edition of the Skeptic Zone podcast! That’s hosted on iTunes – Skeptic Zone on iTunes That’s found on the website – Skeptic Zone That’s found on the blog – Skeptic Zoners That’s found crossing your path, smashing your mirrors and [...]

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First Footing – The Most Sexist Superstition Of All?

by podblack on January 1, 2009

Oxford Dictionary of Superstitions: First-Foot at New Year / Christmas : female-unlucky. 1821: T.D Fosbroke Ariconensia 58 – ‘On the first day of the year, it is deemed very unfortunate, for a woman to enter the house first; and therefore an inquiry is mostly made, whether a male has previously been there.’ 1866: Henderson, Northern [...]

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My Mascot Don’t Believe In The Great Pumpkin

by podblack on October 24, 2008

What?? Myths about ‘You can’t buy a black cat before Halloween due to fear of potential Satanic rituals?‘ MSN reports: Sort of. Many shelters make adopting black cats before Halloween more difficult — but not necessarily due to the threat from cat-sacrificing satanic cults. In fact, little evidence exists to support the cat-sacrificing theory. The [...]

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Paraskevidekatriaphilia!

by podblack on June 13, 2008

One of my traditions is to celebrate the ‘birthday’ of my black cat, whenever it is Friday the thirteenth. Yes, I got her a new computer. Talented moggy. One of the first things you should be checking out today is the latest Skeptics of Carlos Blogcircle at Skepbitch – which features some great skeptical entries [...]

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Superstition Gets Your Goat And Podblack Does Perth Atheist Meetup!

by podblack on May 7, 2008

Sheesh, here I am researching superstitions for my thesis from the past to now… and even today another item pops up – NY Times: The goat option was tested at Katmandu Airport in September to propitiate Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god. Officials of Nepal Airlines told Reuters that they had sacrificed two goats in [...]

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Black Cat Day

by podblack on November 19, 2007

Italy’s Black Cat Day Aims to Halt Killings How’s that for a relevant post for PodBlack? As you might have guessed, black cats are somewhat thematic for me. It was held last Saturday, the 17th November, when I couldn’t get internet access and wrote my post ahead of time. Demonstrates an excellent example of the [...]

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