Os y ddylluan ddaw i’r fro,
Lle byddo rhywun afiach
Dod yno i ddweyd y mae’n ddinâd,
Na chaiff adferiad mwyach.
If an owl comes to those parts,
Where some one sick is lying,
She comes to say without a doubt,
That that sick one is dying.
Peacock.
The peacock’s shrill note is a sign of rain. Its call is supposed to resemble the word gwlaw, the Welsh for rain.
Pigeon.
If the sick asks for a pigeon pie, or the flesh of a pigeon, it is a sign that his death is near.
If the feathers of a pigeon be in a bed, the sick cannot die on it.
The Raven.
The raven has ever enjoyed a notoriously bad name as a bird of ill-omen.
He was one of those birds which the Jews were to have in abomination (Lev., xi., 5-13).
But other nations besides the Jews dreaded the raven.