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Black Cat Tattoo Meanings - Black Cat tattoo designs are usually associated as a symbol of the Occult, Witches and Pagan religions. During the terrible times of the Medieval Inquisitions carried out by the Roman Catholic Church, individuals who were thought to be heretics or witches were actively sought out.

Black Cats were thought to be 'familars', or companions of witches and that was often enough reason for a woman to be accused of being a witch. In a period that has been called the 'Dark Ages' for good reason, black cats were seen as demons in disguise and creatures under the power of Satan. It did not help the case for cats, that despite their abilities to keep vermin in control, this was also the period of the Crusades and in the Middle East and Egypt cats were revered.

Women accused of being witches were often 'tested', or physically tortured to extract a 'confession' out of them. These tests including being bound and thrown into a pool of water, in which case, if the woman drowned, she was innocent, and if she floated she was clearly a witch in which case she would be burned alive at the stake.

The Black Cat as a tattoo design may symbolize a belief in feminism, independence from male domination, or an admiration for Pagan or Wiccan spiritual beliefs.

A variation of the Black Cat tattoo design, is the Black Panther that is the symbol for X-Rated or Restricted movies, meaning that the films in question contain graphic nudity and/or sexual situations which are deemed unsuitable for minors.

So there is also a strong element of the erotic, sensual and sexual in the Black Cat or Black Panther tattoo.

See also: Cat, Jaguar, Leopard, Lion, Panther

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