The black cat Gladstone achieves the position of Chief Mouser to the Treasury in the United Kingdom.
Since the 1880s, the color black has been associated with anarchism, and the black cat in alert, fighting stance was later adopted as an anarchist symbol
Poe published his story "The Black Cat"in 1843, about a murderer carefully concealing a crime, but eventually breaking down and revealing himself because of a nagging reminder of his guilt.
This 13thcentury Latin church document is where Pope Gregory IX first suggested black cats were associated with Satan.
