Black cats for Halloween

Halloween cat by Alina Kurbiel

It will soon be Halloween. At this time of year in the past I have looked for images of Jack o’ lantern and Will o’ the wisp, owls, cauldrons and skulls. This time I decided to choose some images of black cats, believed by some to be witches’ “familiar spirits” or animal guides. Click on each image to find out more about the source.

A spooky cat – with a scarf – by MapleSpyder

Fairy Cat by starwoodarts

A realistic black cat with pumpkins by deskridge

An incredible float featuring huge black cats for the Knights of Momus ‘krewe’ at the New Orleans Mardi Gras in 1909

Cute rather than scary kitten by tinca2

A Familiar Cat by CLB Raveneye

Halloween greetings card by American illustrator Frances Brundage (1854–1937)

Well-armed Samain cat by Catell-Ruz

Haunted cat by CaptainSquirel

Equipped for anything, a Halloween cat by jengslizer

Nothing to do with Halloween, but I like it anyway – this poster advertises the tour of Rodolphe Salis’s Le Chat Noir shadowpuppet theatre – the design is by Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923), a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker

This is a bit different – Cat Bomb – a feline skeleton by Mozakade

Simple Halloween cat design from Clipart

Luminescent little witch girl and her cat by lexxercise

Artwork from the world of Sonic the Hedgehog, with Shadow as a cat with Rouge the bat, by shadowxrouge

Raunchy alley cat by Wildering

Fiddling cat needlework design by Orenco Originals

Halloween cat and pumpkin with a full moon, by orderofshadows

Love Potion (1903) by Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) – Pre-Raphaelite sorceress plus black cat