Spooky Silhouettes 2019 Forever Postage Stamps Self-Adhesive Sheet for Halloween Mail

The Spooky Silhouettes Stamps feature digital illustrations with Halloween motifs rendered as black silhouettes in eerily backlit windows.

When people think of Halloween, a number of spooky symbols come to mind.  One of the most common is the black cat.  In fact, in the United States, it is said that if a black cat crosses our path you will be cursed with bad luck.  At the same time, in other countries, black cats are believed to be very lucky.  So where did our black cat superstition come from?

When the Pilgrims came to America, they brought with them a set of very strict religious belifs.  This led them to condemn anything and anyone even remotely resembling evil.  It was these early Americans who began to associate black cats as being the familiars of witches – firmly believed to be worshipers of Satan.  Anyone found to be the owner of a black cat was severely punished and sometimes even killed.  The cats themselves were also destroyed.