Missing a Butt.
Should a farmer in sowing wheat, or other kind of corn, or potatoes, or turnips, miss a row or butt, it was a token of death.
Stopping of a Clock.
The unaccountable stopping of the kitchen clock generally created a consternation in a family, for it was supposed to foretell the death of one of the family.
A Goose Flying over a House.
This unusual occurrence prognosticated a death in that house.
Goose or Hen Laying a Small Egg.
This event also was thought to be a very bad omen, if not a sign of death.
Hen laying Two Eggs in the same day.
Should a hen lay two eggs in the same day, it was considered a sign of death. I have been told that a hen belonging to a person who lived in Henllan, near Denbigh, laid an egg early in the morning, and another about seven o’clock p.m. in the same day, and the master died.