The Dog's Howl
: DEATH PORTENTS.: Welsh Folk-lore
A dog howling on the doorsteps or at the entrance of a house also
foretold death. The noise was that peculiar howling noise which dogs
sometimes make. It was in Welsh called yn udo, or crying.
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