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All the instances of omens you have mentioned are founded on reason ; but how can you explain such absurdities as Friday being an unlucky day, the terror of spilling salt, or meeting an old woman ? I knew a man, of very high dignity...

The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL.D.: Late President of the Royal ... - Page 466
by John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 547 pages
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Animal Ghosts: Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

Elliott O'Donnell - 1913 - 324 pages

...; whilst Sir Humphry Davy wrote : " I know a man of very high dignity who was exceedingly moved by omens, and who never went out shooting without a bittern's...riband, which he thought ensured him ' good luck.' " Ravens and swallows both, at times, prognosticate death. In Lloyd's Stratagems of Jerusalem (1602)...

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