Animal Auguries
The humming of bees foretold good news, but if their humming sounded angry, trouble was coming.
Cattle lying down instead of grazing foretold bad weather. If they rushed about, it foretold a thunderstorm.
Dogs heard howling at night, phantoms were about and death was foretold.
Seeing a frog meant your marriage would be a lifetime of passion.
A hare in the graveyard might very well be a shade of some dead person.
Seeing a lizard while pregnant meant a miscarriage.
Piebald ponies brought luck and a person could make a wish on it (that had a good chance of coming true) so long as they did not look at it again.
Snakes brought fertility with them. If it crawles into a hole in the ground, it was carrying messages for the dead.
Tiny spiders brought easy money, but large spiders also brought money - with a little work.
If the humming of wasps was heard, an unwelcome guest would drop in unexpectedly or evil tongues would lead to slander.