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If a crow fly but over the house and croak thrice, how do they fear, they, or some one else in the family, shall die. The croaking of crows and ravens foreboded rain. In this particular they resembled the woodpecker. It was, nay, it is yet held that to see a crow on the left hand is a sinister omen. In the
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Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophesies, by the Earl of Northampton, published in 1583, we find the following:--
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The flight of many crowes upon the left side of the campe made the Romans very much afrayde of some badde lucke; as if the greate god Jupiter had nothing else to do (said Carneades) but to drive jack-dawes in a flock together.
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or flock of plovers, in Lancashire, has been previously referred to. In Lancashire and the north of England magpies are termed pyanots. The old formula, which attributes certain results as the consequence of their appearance, is still firmly believed in, viz.:--
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One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding and four for death.