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Welsh Folk-Lore

by Elias Owen

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A Goose Flying Over a House

This unusual occurrence prognosticated a death in that house.

Goose or Hen Laying a Small Egg

This event also was thought to be a very bad omen, if not a sign of death.

Hen Laying Two Eggs in the Same Day

Should a hen lay two eggs in the same day, it was considered a sign of death. I have been told that a hen belonging to a person who lived in Henllan, near Denbigh, laid an egg early in the morning, and another about seven o’clock p.m. in the same day, and the master died.

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