The Black Cat versus The Price and Snow Glass versus Snowhite by Brothers Grimm

A Reading Reflection Review of The Black Cat versus The Price and Snow Glass versus Snowhite by Brothers Grimm
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Question 1
The traditional Attitude on Belief about Black Cat
According to Poe (1843), all black cats were traditionally compared with witchcraft and superstition. In this article the black cat, the author explains his experiences with the black cat and though he was himself was not an adherent of the belief that black cats were superstitious, his experiences with them and the nightmare they caused him made him to harbor this belief. According to him, “mere household events” with the black cat and the failure to take serious the assumption of the superstitious nature of black cats indeed caused him “immense torture and terror and eventually destroying his life” (1). Although some intellectuals may argue against this aspect, Poe articulates that the natural causes, and effects that happened in his house when he reared two black cats were enough to make him belief on their “extra ordinary influences”.
On his part, Gaimam (1998), in an article titled The Price reinforces Poe's assumption of the black cat being associated with witchcraft and superstition. Similar to Poe, Gaimam did not harbor any prior belief of black cats being superstitious. His earlier belief were that all cats, no matter what kind they were could be friendly or vice versa depending on how they were handled. However, his live experiences with one black cat affirmed the superstitious nature of them with no doubt left in his mind in this respect. He says that althou...