Fir Trees. “If a firr tree be touched, withered, or burned with lighting, it is a warning to the house that the master or mistress thereof shall shortly dye.”--Thomas Lupton, Syxt Book of Notable Thinges, iii. (1660).
Fire. The noise occasioned when the enclosed gas in a piece of burning coal matches fire, is a sure indication of a quarrel between the inmates of the house.
Florimel’s Girdle would loosen or tear asunder if any woman unfaithful or unchaste attempted to put it on.--Spenser, Faëry Queen.
Gates of Gundof´orus (The). No one carrying poison could pass these gates. They were made of the horn of the horned snake, by the apostle Thomas, who built a palace of sethym wood for this Indian king, and set up the gates.
Grotto of Ephesus (The) contained a reed, which gave forth musical sounds when the chaste and faithful entered it, but denounced others by giving forth harsh and discordant noises.--Lord Lytton, Tales of Miletus, iii.
Hare Crossing the Road (A). It was thought by the ancient Romans that if a hare ran across the road on which a person was travelling, it was a certain omen of ill luck.
Lepus quoque occurrens in via, infortunatum iter præsagit et ominosum.--Alexander ab Alexandro, Genialium Dierum, libri VI. v. 13 p. 685.
Nor did we meet, with nimble feet,
One little fearful lepus,
That certain sign, as some divine,