This Indiana town required black cats to wear bells on Friday the 13th during World War II
In 1939, the small Indiana resort town of French Lick Springs passed what may be America’s most bizarre animal law – requiring all black cats to wear bells on Friday the 13th. This wasn’t just municipal overreach; it was a calculated wartime strategy to combat collective superstition-driven anxiety that was crippling community morale during the … Lire plus