For a white pigeon to single out a house and hover round it is a sure sign of an early marriage or engagement in that house.
A cock crowing during the night-time means a bad illness for someone close at hand: if it crows during the afternoon, a visitor will arrive.
Sailors are not over-fond of seagulls, believing them to be the spirits of their dead mates, yet they are most indignant if anyone tries to shoot or kill one of them.
OTHER ANIMALS.—A cricket singing within a house ensures good luck for all the household.
Kill a spider and it will surely rain.
See a moth on your clothes and you will get new ones.
A death's head moth indicates bereavement.
Pigs are unlucky creatures when seen singly.
To see a white horse and then, shortly after, a red-haired person, tells of approaching good fortune.