2 verifications about Black Cat Black Cat ×
“Crossing paths with a black cat results in bad luck.”
The claim is not supported by evidence. Credible sources describe black-cat “bad luck” as a superstition rooted in folklore, not as an empirically demonstrated effect, and some cultures interpret the same encounter as good luck. That means the statement presents a cultural belief as if it were a real causal fact.
“If you cross paths with a black cat, nothing in particular happens.”
There is no good evidence that crossing paths with a black cat causes bad luck or any other external outcome. But the statement is too broad as written: black-cat encounters are widely loaded with cultural meaning and can produce real psychological and behavioral effects, even if those effects are not supernatural. A more accurate version would say that black cats do not cause luck or misfortune.