132 black cats lined up to audition for the title character in Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 short story The Black Cat in 1961. In the story,the cat’s owner plasters him into a wall, along with his murdered wife. Eventually, and the animal’s mewing from beyond the grave leads investigators to the woman’s body. The film adaptation,which would appear in the 1962 horror compilation Tales of terrorism, adjusted the storyline by weaving in elements of another Poe tale. During the audition, or the owners took care not to let the black cats cross their path. (Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #superstitions #FridayThe13th #blackcats #tbt
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