The effigy is felled by the blow of an axe, and if it drops at the first stroke, the omen is favourable.
If she remained steady on one foot throughout the ceremony, it was an omen that the flax crop would be good; but if she let her foot down, it was feared that the crop might fail.
The Kingsmill Islanders deemed a shooting star an omen of death to some member of the family which occupied the part of the council-house nearest to the point of the sky whence the meteor took its flight.
He then complimented the high national feeling of the people by observing, that he considered it as a happy omen of the success of his arms that the increase of difficulties served only to augment the courage and constancy of the nation.
On the return of the procession, an incident occurred, which, had it happened among the nations of antiquity, would have been considered an omen of evil portent, which could only have been averted by a whole hecatomb of sacrifices.
This was of bad omen to any application that might be made to his majesty on the subject, for Pitt doubtless knew that his majesty had resolved not to recommend its attention to the members of parliament.
The two omens relating to Naram-Sin record a campaign against Apirak (Omen i) and against Magan (Omen ii).
The sixth omen is too fragmentary to yield any certain sense.
The last omen tells us something about Sargon’s campaign against the land Suri, how he overcame it, and took it, and how he destroyed its army.
The first omen records Sargon’s expedition to and subjection of Elam.
The losing of a ring given as a pledge of affection was considered in former times, as it is not unfrequently now, to be an omen of mishap.
Good omen such a morn as this,' her Grace of England said, 'What progress down our noble Thames hath Sir John Perrot made?
Inasmuch as this stone is almost as liable to change, and as capriciously as the heart itself, the omen it gives is verified with sufficient frequency to maintain its reputation for infallibility' (The Rev.
In the chapter on 'Ring Superstitions' I have mentioned the discovery of Lady Dundee's ring, and the omen attached to it.
On perceiving it at the close of the ceremony she fainted away, and the evil omen had made such an impression on her mind that, on recovering, she declared she should die within the year, and her presentiment was too truly fulfilled.
It would, indeed, be an ill omen for the future if any one were omitted through the miscarriage of an invitation.
My ring--ah, yes, and an omen of evil I deemed that loss to be; for it was the betrothal ring you gave me at the Thorns of the Carlinwark.
He was greatly terrified at this spectacle, considering it as some omen of very dreadful import.
Cicero also furnishes us (de Divinatione I 36) with a most striking parallel between a Babylonian-Assyrian animal omen and an Etruscan interpretation of the same omen.
It is because the malformation is an omen that it leads to further beliefs and fancies.
If the foetus is male and female--omen of Azag-Bau who ruled the land.
Whatever occurred to the king or to a member of his household was an omen for the general welfare under the ancient view of the king as the representative of the deity on earth.
Compare the omen in the case of the young of an animal, above p.
Thales that the birth of the monster is an omen of discord and sedition.
This birth-omen 'if a woman gives birth to a head' actually occurs in the Babylonian-Assyrian collections, e.
The line is defective, but the omen was without doubt unfavorable.
His intuition now grasped the meaning of the omen of the beckoning flame that had called him from the far coasts of Point Grey.
That it was some omen he never doubted, so he paddled inland, beached his canoe, and took the trail towards the little group of lakes that crowd themselves into the area that lies between the present cities of Vancouver and New Westminster.
Bad omen for my trustee meeting to-night," he muttered.
I have a growing group of loyal young dreamers, and you have come as an omen of greater things.
The Welsh Gwrach y Rhibyn (or the hag of the Dribble) bears some resemblance to the Irish Banshee, being regarded as an omen of death.
When his grandfather was offering sacrifice to (403) avert some ill omen from lightning, the entrails of the victim were snatched out of his hand by an eagle, and carried off into an oak-tree loaded with acorns.
Some verses which were published in his reign, intimate that he was born in the winter quarters of the legions, In castris natus, patriis nutritius in armis, Jam designati principis omen erat.
On the road, his mind was somewhat relieved, by observing the frivolous omen of a Gaulish soldier defeated and dragged by the hair by a Roman knight, which was sculptured on a monument; so that he leaped for joy, and adored the heavens.
At last it appeared by the event, that the omen had portended the elevation of Augustus.
If one dreams of a black cat at Christmas, it is an omen of some alarming illness during the following year.
The dog in connection with a man's hand is mentioned in the Latin works of Petrarch, when speaking of Vespasian, who considered as a good omen the incident of a dog bringing a man's hand into the refectory.
Hence the song of the cuckoo was considered a good omen to whoever intended to marry.
Hence the ancients believed that it was a bad omen to dream of swallows.
Wolves eat each other; the wolf Sinfioelti becomes a eunuch; the wolf who flees before the hero is an omen of victory, as well as the wolf who howls under the branches of an ash-tree.
In the Ramayanam,[149] Bharatas considers it as of a sinister omen his having dreamed of a great elephant fallen into marshy ground.
Wolves are an omen of death; the loup garou of popular French tradition is a diabolical form.
The Spartans considered it an omen of most sinister import that the monkey of the king of the Molossians had upset their urn while they were going to consult the oracle.
The women of antiquity, when they met a lioness, considered it as an omen of sterility.
In a German belief noticed by Professor Rochholtz, two cats that fight against each other are to a sick man an omen of approaching death.
This was an omenof sorrow to the King," says Hoveden.
It was a more evil omen when Dover and Canterbury shut their gates against him.
So far was he indeed from exhibiting any one prognostic of this greatness, that every omen foretold a life at best, of mediocrity, if not of insignificance.
Let us conquer it today, and at sunset let the Spanish flag, whose fatal shadow has so long been the omen of misery and death, be lowered on our frontiers forever.
They were generally seen mounted on snow-white horses, and their appearance on the battle-field was a good omen for the army among whom they came.
Each city cherished carefully the fire that was sacred to Vesta, and never allowed it to burn out, for that was an evil omen sure to presage disaster.
At this good omen there was a murmur of satisfaction; for a refusal to eat is accounted a bad omen.
The prince now, at the request of the queen, proceeded to obtain an omen as to the success of his army.
If the herb they find has the hands conjoined, the omen is favourable; but unfavourable if the hands point different ways.
The omen sticks of the Druids, frequently referred to in the Bardic poems, were probably rods cut from a fruit-tree and marked with mystical emblems.
Accepting the omen he kisses the sacred tree, falls asleep beneath it, and wakes to find that the ants have been miraculously changed into men, the famous Myrmidons.
For lovers to see the rainbow, is an omen of much happiness from their union.
Fatal illness may also be the sad omen of this dream.
To see freight trains in your dreams, is an omen of changes which will tend to your elevation.
To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade, but love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects.
For a young woman to think a loadstone is attracting her, is an omen of happy changes in her family.
To dream of this little flower starring the grass at your feet, is an omen of joys laden with comfort and peace.
To gather the ripe fruit, is a happy omen of plenty to all classes.
For a young woman to play a successful game of tenpins, is an omen of light pleasures, but sorrow will attend her later.
To dream of seeing canker on anything, is an omen of evil.
To dream of eating vegetables, is anomen of strange luck.
To dream of hissing persons, is an omen that you will be displeased beyond endurance at the discourteous treatment shown you while among newly made acquaintances.
To see or eat roast in a dream, is an omen of domestic infelicity and secret treachery.
It is an omen of prosperity to the sailor, the farmer and the tradesman alike.
To the poor, this dream is an omen of easier circumstances.
To dream that you are urinating, is an omen of bad luck, and trying seasons to love.
The hidden meaning is that the sudden sight of the picture is a bad omenthreatening disaster which makes Clitophon postpone his journey to Pharos.
The maid Plangon interprets the dream as a good omen for future happiness.
A certain small black and white bird called pîtpît is believed to be an omen spirit, and therefore it is also properly called ído.
And on making the clearing if they see that snakes, owls, or other things of evil omen approach, it is a sign that they are going to die or to have misfortunes.
It will be noted that most of the things created by Búgan from the corrupted half of Balitúk were pests and things of evil omen to torment the people of Kiángan as they had tormented her.
Twas like the omen which precedes The earthquake when the summer reeds Are strangely still, until the shock The central earth shall wildly rock.
In his tried spirits' darkest mood, She was an omen still of good.
Is this a prelude to some new disgrace, Some baleful omen to my name and race!
To one this new satisfaction and lightness of heart may have been no false presage: to the other, what an omen of unsuspected evil, disaster and death!
