Today, if a cat crosses your path, people stop for a while or change their path. It is believed that if a cat crosses your path, you should not go through that path, because it leads to some untoward incident. Similarly, there is a belief about the color of the cat. Different meanings are derived for a black cat and a white cat crossing your path. Similarly, a cat crossing your path is considered a superstition or delusion. There is also a scientific reason behind this. However, various myths about cats are prevalent not only in India but in many countries of the world. At some places, a cat is considered auspicious, while at other places, a cat is considered inauspicious. Let us know why we stop when a cat crosses our path.
Stop when any other animal crosses your path, not just a cat
No scientific reason has been found for considering a cat inauspicious. But most people consider a black cat to be a bad omen. By the way, the tradition of a cat crossing your path was made for the night. Actually, in the olden days, when there was no electricity, people used to stop if they heard any noise on the road. So that if a wild animal was crossing the road, it could pass by peacefully and neither harm them nor the animal.
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Scientific reasons for black cats
If we talk about the superstition related to a black cat crossing the road, then there is a special reason behind it. Decades ago, plague disease often spread due to rats, and crores of people died due to the epidemic. Now the cat eats rats. In such a situation, there is a possibility of infection spreading through the cat. In such a situation, people were asked to stay away from the cat. Now, wherever the cat used to go, there was a possibility of infection-causing germs, so people used to avoid going to that place for a while.