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Budapest's black cats get Halloween protection
For a Hungarian animal shelter, Halloween is less about pumpkins, witches and ghosts, but keeping black cats out of the hands of Satanists
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or a Hungarian animal shelter, Halloween is lessabout pumpkins, witches and ghosts, but keeping black cats out of the hands ofSatanists.
'Unfortunately cats here are prized by Satanists who want to use them in seances and sacrifical rituals around Halloween,' Kinga Schneider, head of the Noah's Ark Foundation in Budapest, told AFP.
Schneider said the shelter always gets a spike of telephone enquiries in October asking if there were black cats available for adoption.
'We tell callers no cats are given out from the middle of October to the middle of November,' she said
