If you first see a new moon through glass, your wish will come to pass.
Nails. A white spot on the thumb promises a present; on the index finger denotes a friend; on the long finger, a foe; on the third finger, a letter or sweetheart; on the little finger, a journey to go.
In America, white spots on the nails are considered lucky.
Nourgehan’s Bracelet gave warning of poison by a tremulous motion of the stones, which increased as the poison approached nearer and nearer.--Comte de Caylus, Oriental Tales (“The Four Talismans”).
Opal turns pale at the approach of poison.
Owls. The screeching of an owl forebodes calamity, sickness, or death. On one occasion an owl strayed into the Capitol, and the Romans, to avert the evil, underwent a formal lustration.
The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy with lustrations ...
The round-faced prodigy t’ avert.