Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Divination in Nature: Other proverbs


Rats leaving a house mean that the building will collapse.
A cock crowing outside a back door means that someone is coming.

A dove calling from outside a back door means that someone is coming.
Bees flying into a house mean that a visitor is coming. 

 See a spinning spider on a web, and you will get new clothes.
Birds flying on the right side are a lucky omen.  (Fly on left, unlucky)
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Works Used.

Conway, D.J. “Animal Magick”, Llewellyn: St. Paul (MN), 1999.

Nightshade, “Folklore and Superstition”, The Raven’s Aviary, 1998, http://www.shades-of-night.com/aviary/folklore.html,

Schlosser, S.E., “Rain Proverbs and Sayings”, American Folklore: Weatherlore, 2010, http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/rain_proverbs_sayings.html,

----, “Weather Proverbs and Prognostics: Animals”, “The Old Farmer’s Almanac”, Yankee Publishing, 2012, http://www.almanac.com/content/weather-proverbs-and-prognostics-animals,

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