Category: DEATH PORTENTS.
A Raven's Croaking
A raven croaking hoarsely as it flew through the air became the angel of
death to some person over whose house it flew. It was a bird of ill
omen.
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Missing A Butt
Should a farmer in sowing wheat, or other kind of corn, or potatoes, or
turnips, miss a row or butt, it was a token of death.
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A Cock Crowing In The Night
This, too, was thought to foretell a death, but whose death, depended on
the direction of the bird's head whilst crowing. As soon as the crowing
was heard someone went to ascertain the position of the cock's head, and
when it was s...
Cyhyraeth Death Sound
This was thought to be a sound made by a crying spirit. It was
plaintive, yet loud and terrible. It made the hair stand on end and the
blood become cold; and a whole neighbourhood became depressed whenever
the awful sound was hear...
Heather
Should any person bring heather into a house, he brought death to one or
other of the family by so doing.
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Tolaethdeath Rapping Or Knocking
The death rappings are said to be heard in carpenters' workshops, and
that they resembled the noise made by a carpenter when engaged in
coffin-making. A respectable miner's wife told me that a female friend
told her, she had often ...
Another Tale Of A Doctor
I received the following tale from the Rev. Philip Edwards, formerly
curate at Selattyn, near Oswestry:--
There was, or perhaps is--for my informant says he believes the lady is
still alive--in a place called Swyddffynnon, Cardiga...
A Crowing Hen
This bird, too, is supposed to indicate the death of an inmate of the
house which is its home; or, if not the death, some sore disaster to one
or other of the members of that family. The poor hen, though, as soon as
it is heard cro...
Spectral Funerals Or Drychiolaeth
This was a kind of shadowy funeral which foretold the real one. In South
Wales it goes by the name toilu, toili, or y teulu (the family)
anghladd, unburied; in Montgomeryshire it is called Drychiolaeth,
spectre.
I cannot do bett...
The Owl
This bird's dismal and persistent screeching near an abode also foretold
the death of an inmate of that house.
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