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	&quot;Unfortunately cats here are prized by Satanists who want to use them in seances and sacrifical rituals around Halloween,&quot; Kinga Schneider, head of the Noah&#39;s Ark Foundation in Budapest, told AFP.</div>
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	Schneider said the shelter always gets a spike of telephone enquiries in October asking if there were black cats available for adoption.</div>
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	&quot;We tell callers no cats are given out from the middle of October to the middle of November,&quot; she said.&nbsp;</div>
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	&quot;They never call back&quot;.</div>
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Budapest's black cats get Halloween protection

BUDAPEST (AFP) - For a Hungarian animal shelter, Halloween is less about pumpkins, witches and ghosts, but keeping black cats out of the hands of Satanists.