Cattle give warning of an earthquake by their uneasiness.
Children Playing Soldiers on a road is said to forebode approaching war.
Coals. A cinder bounding from the fire is either a purse or a coffin. Those which rattle when held to the ear are tokens of wealth; those which are mute and solid indicate sickness or death.
Corpse Candles. The ignis fatuus, called by the Welsh canhwyll cyrph, or “corpse candle,” prognosticates death. If small and of pale blue, it denotes the death of an infant; if large and yellow, the death of one of full age.
Captain Leather, chief magistrate of Belfast, in 1690, being shipwrecked on the Isle of Man, was told that thirteen of his crew were lost, for thirteen corpse candles had been seen moving towards the churchyard. It is a fact that thirteen of the men were drowned in this wreck.--Sacheverell, Isle of Man, 15.
Cradle. It forebodes evil to the child if any one rocks its cradle when empty.--American Superstition.
Crickets. Crickets in a house are a sign of good luck, but if they suddenly leave, it is a warning of death.
Crow (A). A crow appearing to one on the left hand side indicates some impending evil to the person; and flying over a house, foretells evil at hand to some of the inmates. (See “Raven.”)
Sæpe sinistra cava prædixit ab ilice cornex.
Virgil, Eclogue, i.