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What event from "The Black Cat" validates the wife's superstition about cats?

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The superstition of the narrator's wife in "The Black Cat" that cats are witches in disguise seems to be proved correct when their house catches fire the night after the narrator kills Pluto by hanging him from a tree. The next day, the narrator sees the figure of a cat with a rope round its neck on the wall of the burned house.

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Having said that his cat, Pluto, was unusually intelligent, the narrator of "The Black Cat" continues:

In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.

The narrator thinks that his wife was not quite serious on this point but mentions it in any case, and it has a clear bearing on the events he relates.

As he tells his story, the narrator is under sentence of death. Though the crime for which he is to be executed is the murder of his wife, he also seems to feel that he is being punished for his cruelty to the two cats in the story, particularly the first, Pluto. The narrator gouged out Pluto's eye with his pocketknife in a fit of drunken rage, then,...

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later, killed the cat by hanging him by the neck from a tree in his garden. The fact that he is now due to be executed, probably in a similar manner, might be taken as evidence of Pluto's supernatural power of revenge. However, this event was also foreshadowed the night after he killed Pluto, when his house burned down. Although the burning of the house might, by itself, be regarded as a coincidence, he returns the next day to find "the figure of a gigantic cat" with a rope around its neck on the wall of the ruined house. This seems to confirm his wife's superstition.

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What events in "The Black Cat" support the wife's superstition about the cats?

The narrator’s wife in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” half-jokingly mentions the idea that the titular cat is associated with witchcraft and black magic shortly after the couple gets Pluto as a pet.

Several happenings as described through the narrator’s eyes certainly indicate that the cat has mystical powers. The first of these occurs after the narrator’s house catches fire. On the only remaining wall, a curious placement of ashes shows the silhouette of a cat in negative space, meaning that the only part not covered in black ash is the outline of the animal.

Another event that suggests the cat is witchy is its reappearance at the tavern the narrator frequents. The second cat is curiously similar to Pluto, even though the narrator has previously hanged the cat in his cellar.

The third—and most poignant—event comes at the very end of the story when the narrator is showing the police officers around his new home. The one-eyed cat screeches from within the wall where the narrator has concealed his slain wife’s body, thereby outing him to the police. The cat is described as “crying out its revenge,” suggesting that the cat had a plan all along for ruining the narrator’s life after he killed it the first time.

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