Reader Submitted

If you see three black crows together that means someone in your family will die. I saw three when my sister died a while back. My best friend’s father died around the same time.I’ve been seeing single black crows for some time now. I was told when this happens, I will hear of a death of someone I know. I remember this well, I was out on break at my job and a crow landed in front of my car and hawked at me. The same day, the vice president of my company died.

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Scott from New Bedford, MA

You may try to remedy this by wiping away the spot where the imaginary incision was made with your hand, Then blowing on your hand to blow it away to the wind, and covering it with the sign of the cross.

Cures:

• Working on Ascension Day is bad luck and brings about accidents.

Weather Omens:

Eggs:

• Eggs laid on Ascension Day will never go bad.
• Eggs laid on Ascension Day and placed on the roof will bring good luck for the whole year.

Gifts:

• If you make a gift to the blind or poor you will be blessed with great wealth during the year.

Cures:

• Biting into the bark of a peach tree at midnight on Ascension Day cures goiter.
• Rain collected on Ascension Day cures eye problems.

Cures:

• Put a live frog in the patient’s mouth to cure thrush with the frog’s breath.
• Wear the body of a dried frog or powered frog livers around your neck in a silk bag to avoid epilepsy.
• Swallow live young frogs to cure weakness, consumption and cancer.
• Rub a live frog on warts and impale the frog on a tree to die to make warts go away.
• To cure whooping cough, eat frog soup.
• To treat eye problems a volunteer must lick a frog’s eyes and then the eyes of a patient.

Frogs as weather omens:

• A frog with shiny skin means fine weather is coming.
• Frog spawn being laid at the edge of ponds means a storm is brewing.
• A frog with dull skin is an omen of rain.
• Frogs croaking during the day means rain is coming.

• Seeing a lone fox is good luck.
• Seeing several foxes together is bad luck.
• Seeing a fox near your home is an omen of disaster and death.
• Being bitten by a fox is fatal, you will not live more than seven years.
• Nailing a severed fox’s head to a barn door keeps witches away.

Cures:

• Laying a fox’s tongue on the skin draws out deeply embedded thorns.
• A fox’s tongue applied to the eyes will cure cataracts.
• Eating or carrying a fox’s tongue helps a person overcome shyness.
• Carrying a fox’s tooth helps treat an inflamed leg.
• Eating a fox’s liver cures coughs.
• Drinking milk sipped by a fox cures whooping cough.
• Drinking the ashes of a fox in wine cures respiratory problems and benefits the liver.
• Rubbing fox fat into the scalp cures baldness.

Carp:

• Carrying a carp fish charm brings good luck, especially to lovers.

Cod:

• Carrying the dried eye of a cod will bring good luck.

Eel:

• Wearing an eelskin garter cures cramps.
• Rubbing a wart with eels’ blood makes it go away.
• A live eel in a drink cures a person from drunkenness.
• Witches and sorcerers wearing eelskin jackets protects them from bullets.
• A cooked eel will become raw if left uneaten.
• A whole eel can be used to cure deafness.
• Eel fat will render fairies visible to humans
• EAting an eel heart gives you the power of prophecy
• Eating a whole eel will strike you dumb.

Haddock:

• It’s bad luck to burn a haddock.

Herring:

• Shedding blood near where herring frequent causes the herring to desert the area.
• Laying a salted herring at your feet will relieve a sore throat.
• Suspending a herring from the ceiling on Good Friday will keep your house free from flies during the summer.

Divination with Herrings:
To see an image of your future spouse: Eat a whole salted herring in three mouthfulls, retire to bed without a drink and don’t say a word. That night you will dream of your future partner.
To know if a future husband will be attractive and trustworthy:
Throw the white membrane of a herring at a wall. If the skin sticks to the wall and is not a crooked shape, your future husband will be attractive and trustworthy. If the herring skin sticks crookedly or fails to stick, your future spouse will be undesirable.

Tench:

• Eating tench makes you strong and wise and can cure illness.
• Other freshwater fish rub themselves against tench when they are sick.

Trout:

• Putting a trout’s head into a patient’s mouth cures whooping cough.
• Drinking beer in which a trout has been drowned cures whooping cough.
• Drinking milk in which a live trout has been made to swim cures whooping cough.

• It’s bad luck to meet a barking dog early in the morning.
• It’s good luck to meet a Dalmation or a Greyhound with a white spot.
• Black poodles appear on the graves of clergymen who have broken their vows.
• It’s good luck for a strange dog to follow you home.
• When a strange dog enters your house it’s a symbol of a new friendship.
• In baseball, It’s bad luck for the batting team if a dog walks across the playing field.

Running:

• A dog running between a dating couple means they will fight and not marry.
• A dog running between a woman’s legs means her father or husband will punish her for something.

Colored dogs:

• It’s good luck for a black dog to follow you home.
• If you dream of a black dog, or to see an image of a black dog in a fire, means a friend is near.
• It’s bad luck if a black dog crosses in front of you.
• It’s good luck to see a white dog before noon.
• It’s good luck to see three white dogs together.
• Regarding business, if a black and white dog crosses your path while you are on your way to a meeting, you’ll have good luck in your dealings.

Weather omens:

• If a dog retreats under a table or into a corner, bad weather is coming.
• Dogs eat grass and scratch for long periods of time when rain is coming.

Cures:

• Melted dog fat alleviates rheumatism.
• Wearing a dried dog’s tongue aroudn the neck cures scrofula
• A dog’s lick can cure sores on skin.

Death Omens:

• A dog howling at an open door for no reason.
• A dog howling outside at night.
• A dog howling once and then falling silent.
• A dog howling three times and then falling silent.
• A dog howling persistently in front of a house where someone lies ill.
• A dog digging a hole in your garden.
• A dog sleeping with it’s paws curled up and tail outstretched.