If their heads are turned towards you it is lucky, but if their tails it is the reverse.
Moles work harder than general before rain.
A mole's foot carried in the pocket is a sure prevention against witches.
Birds.
Crows foretell rain when they caw and walk along on the banks of rivers and pools.
A crow alighting in front of anyone walking is unlucky.
Two crows bring good luck, and if they fly away over the person's head it is very great good luck.
Four crows foretell a death in the person's family.
I was recently told that two crows alighting on a house betokens a death, and a very peculiar instance was given. My informant told me that his coat of arms bears three Choughs and the night before his father died two crows sat on the window sill of his father's bedroom, and it was remarked that one of the three birds being absent foretold the death which occurred next day.
A bird flying into a house foretells a death.