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Animal superstitions 4Category Animal Superstitions
Subcategory: Sow Bugs
A Texas superstition says that a bag filled with 13 sow bugs tied around a child's neck will cure the child from the thrash, or sores in the mouth.
Subcategory: Storks
Storks deliver babies.
Storks were sacred to Venus in Roman mythology.
If a stork builds a nest on your roof, you have received a blessing and a promise of never ending love from Venus. Aristotle made killing a stork a crime, and Romans passed a stork law, saying that children must care for their elderly parents.
Killing a stork - bad luck
Building a nest on the roof - good omen
Seeing two storks - omen of pregnancy
Subcategory: Swallow
Herald of the summer
Killing a swallow - bad luck
Nesting on the roof - protection especially against lightning and fire
Storms will accompany the arrival and departure of swallows
Subcategory: Swans
A swan's feather, sewed into the husband's pillow, will ensure fidelity.
Subcategory: Toad
If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning nothing worse will happen to you all day.
Crossing the path of a bride on the way to the church - prosperous and happy union
Seeing a toad - end of drought or good fortune
Thought to be the familiars of witches
Killing a toad - rainstorms
Carrying a dried toad - protection against plague
Handling toads - causes warts
Subcategory: Tortoise
Killing a tortoise - bad luck
Wearing a tortoiseshell bracelet - protection against evil
Subcategory: Wasp
Killing the first wasp of the season - good luck
Subcategory: Vulture
Seeing a vulture - omen of death
Subcategory: Weasel
Seeing a weasel - bad luck
Keeping money in a weasel skin purse - financial security
Subcategory: Wolf
During the middle ages, wolves were ascribed magical powers and wolf parts became an important part of many early pharmacies. Powered wolf liver was used to ease birth pains. A wolf's right paw, tied around ones throat, was believed to ease the swelling
It was widely believed that a horse that stepped in a wolf print would be crippled
The gaze of a wolf was once thought to cause blindness
The breath of the wolf could cook meat.
It was believed that Wolves sharpened their teeth before hunting
Dead wolves were buried at a village entrance to keep out other wolves (some farmers continue to shoot predators and hang them on fence posts to repel other predators.)
Travelers were warned about perils of walking through lonely stretches of woods, and stone shelters were built to protect them from attacks. Our modern word "loophole" is derived from the European term "loup hole," or wolf hole, a spy hole in shelters
Seeing a wolf - dumbness
Subcategory: Wren
Harming a wren - broken bone
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