There are some who would say that if a bird, any bird, flies into your window and dies there will be a death in the household.
The superstition started in the past when glass and therefore windows, were expensive and small. The likelihood of it happening was small and the correlation between the happening and a death more noticeable.
If there were any truth to this superstition today, the profusion of birds flying into skyscrapers would be quite frightening.
Yes, but it's a silly superstition.
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A bird in the house is a sign of a death. If a robin flies into a room through a window, death will shortly follow.
In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," the superstition is that a dog howling at night signifies death. Tom and Huck believe this superstition and are frightened when they hear a dog howling at night after they witness a murder.
There is a strong death superstition surrounding birds hitting the windows of a home. If a birds hits someone's home then someone in that house will die.
It is believed that if a bird flys in your home someone in your family will die
No. This is just a superstition and not based on fact or truth.
Of course not. Otherwise the entire population of the earth would be dead.
War, famine, death, any disaster - with the comet being the herald.
China. The word for 4 sounds just like the word for death.
That a pigeon died. I'm not really sure where you wanted to go with that...
The last passenger pigeon was named "Martha" and lived in the Cincinnati zoo until her death in 1914.