3563. A cock's crowing in the front door brings a guest.

3564. If a rooster crows while looking in at the door, expect a stranger the next day.

3565. Someone is coming if a rooster crows. He will come from the direction in which the rooster's tail points.

3566. If a rooster crows in the kitchen, a tramp is coming.

3567. If a cock crows before your door, there will be a death in the neighborhood.

3568. If a rooster crows three times in the door, a death will follow.

3569. If a rooster crows on a fence with his head turned toward the house, welcome guests will arrive.... ..................................Mountains

3570. If a rooster crows on a fence with his head turned away from the house, unwelcome guests may be expected ..........................Mountains

3571. When a rooster crows with his head turned toward the door, there will he an increase in the family... ..................................Mountains

3572. When a rooster crows with his head from the door, there will he a decrease in the family... Mountains

3573. The presence of chickens on the porch indicates the arrival of a large amount of company.

3574. If your neighbor's rooster whips your rooster, your chickens will not do well.

3575. If a rooster crows in the back-yard, a man will come.

3576. A cock's crowing in the back door brings a servant visitor.

3577. If a rooster jumps upon a fence and crows, someone is coming.

3578. When a rooster crows at night, expect company the next day.

3579. If two roosters fight, a man is coming.

3580. If two hens fight, expect two women. If one hen is dark and the other light, one woman will wear dark and the other light clothes.

3581. If two hens fight in the door, two women are coming.

3582. If two old hens are fighting, two old women are coming soon.

3583. If a rooster crows before ten o'clock at night, bad news may be expected.

3584. When a rooster crows at noon, hasty news in the neighborhood may be expected. Louisville Negroes

3585. If a rooster crows at a certain time in the night, you will hear hurried news.

3586. If a rooster crows about dusk, you will hear unexpected news.

3587. It is a sign of bad luck when a rooster goes crowing to roost.

3588. If a cock crows on the roost, someone in the family will die.

3589. If the cocks crow on the roost, you will hear bad news of some one of your relatives.

3590. If a rooster begins to crow about nine o'clock at night, it will turn cold.

3591. If a rooster crows before midnight, there will be a fire.

3592. A rooster's crowing at night, except at Christmas time, is a sign of bad luck.

3593. There will be bad luck in the family if a rooster crows on the steps on Sunday, unless he is killed at once ..............................Mountains

3594. Should you find a feather in your hair in the morning, you will get a whipping..........Blue Grass

3595. "A whistling woman or a crowing hen, never comes to a very good end."

3596. "A woman that whistles or a hen that crows, has her way wherever she goes."

3597. When a hen crows in the door, someone in the family will die.

3598. A crowing hen must be put to death; otherwise death in the family or other bad luck will follow.

3599. It is a very bad omen for a chicken to die in one's hand.

3600. It is disastrous to let the chicken head die in your hand when a chicken is killed.

3601. If you pull a bunch of feathers from the back of a chicken's head before you wring its neck, it will not flop............................Mountains

3602. To make a chicken die quietly after you have wrung its neck, pluck three feathers from its breast........................................Mountains

3603. After wringing a chicken's neck, pull some feathers from its back and put them on its breast, to make it die quietly.

3604. A black chicken's meat is coarser than that of other chickens.

3605. The scratching of a gray chicken under a window means bad luck.

3606. If on your way to a funeral, you meet a white chicken, you will have bad luck.

3607. A turtle-dove's cry on the first day of the year means a good crop year.......Western Kentucky

3608. The flying of a turtle-dove over a house portends death in the family.

3609. If a turtle-dove comes into the room, there will be a death before the week is out........Mountains

3610. If you hear a turtle-dove call as you are going up a hill, you will have bad luck the rest of the year.... ...........................Southern Kentucky

3611. If you kill a turtle-dove, you will have a boil, carbuncle, or other skin eruption.

3612. It is a sign of death to see two turtle-doves in a tree..............................Blue Grass

3613. If you see a white turtle-dove before breakfast, your father will die very soon.............Mountains

3614. If a duck comes into your kitchen, you will never starve............................Blue Grass

3615. Wild geese flying south make the initials of each state through which they pass...........Negroes

3616. It brings good luck to pass a flock of geese.

3617. If an owl hoots, someone will die.

3618. If an owl hoots on the top of a house, there will be a death in that household.

3619. It brings bad luck to imitate the hoot of an owl.....................................Blue Grass

3620. If an owl hoots at the door for three successive nights, the sound foretells a death in the house.

3621. An owl's hoot about midnight is a sign that a member of the family will meet with an accident.

3622. Tie a knot in your dress or skirt to stop an owl's hoot.

3623. Avert the disaster of an owl's hooting by turning an old shoe upside down.

3624. To make an owl stop hooting, take off your left shoe and turn it over.