3625. An owl will stop hooting if you pull your shoes off and cross them.

3626. To stop an owl from hooting, turn the toes of your shoes to touch the wall.

3627. To avert the disaster that follows the hoot of an owl, heat a poker until it is red hot.

3628. If you eat the lights of a partridge, you will have success in love.

3629. To hear a peacock cry or to see a peacock means bad luck.

3630. A peacock feather brought into a house will surely cause death.

3631. Do not put your hand into a pigeon's nest, for the pigeon will not come back.

3632. If a pigeon flies against the window, there will be a death in the household.

3633. The cooing of pigeons is a sign of death in the family to which they belong..........Blue Grass

3634. It causes bad luck to kill a raincrow.

3635. It brings bad luck to have a redbird fly across the road when you are out riding.

3636. You can avert the ill luck which the flying of a redbird across your path brings by turning the lap-apron over.................Southern Kentucky

3637. If a redbird flies across the road in front of you, you will get a letter.

3638. If a redbird crosses your path, going to the right, good luck will follow.

3639. If a redbird crosses your path, going to the left, bad luck will follow.

3640. If you see a redbird, you will get a letter.

3641. If a redbird comes into your house, the house will be burned.........................Mountains

3642. It brings good luck to see a Kentucky Cardinal.

3643. If a redbird or a Kentucky Cardinal flies in front of your door, someone unexpected is coming.

3644. If you see a redbird in the morning, you will see one of your cousins before night......Mountains

3645. If you see a redbird on Saturday, your sweetheart is coming.

3646. The sight of a robin means that someone is coming.

3647. To kill a robin will bring bad luck.

3648. When you see a robin, spit on your fingers and stamp them with your fist; if you go through this operation a hundred times, you will find something ..................................Blue Grass

3649. If you put salt on a sparrow's tail, you may catch it.

3650. If a lone turkey-buzzard flies over the house, someone is coming.

3651. If a turkey-buzzard flies close to the house, some-one will die........................Blue Grass

3652. If a turkey-buzzard is killed with a gun, the gun will soon burst and will never be of any more value ...........................Western Kentucky

3653. If a whippoorwill sings in a tree near the house, a death will follow.

3654. You will have bad luck if you kill a whippoorwill....................................Mountains

3655. If a woodpecker picks on a tree in the immediate neighborhood of your house, expect a caller.......................................Blue Grass

3656. If a woodpecker is heard on or near the house, there will be a death.

3657. If a woodpecker pecks on the roof of a house, a person will die there soon.

3658. It brings bad luck to kill a wren.

3659. A wren building near a house brings good luck.

3660. If a bat flies into a house at night, there will be someone missing the next night.

3661. If a bat lights on one's head, it will stay there until there is thunder.

3662. You will have bad luck if you kill a bat.

3663. If a honey-bee flies before you, you will get a letter.

3664. A yellow honey-bee is a sign of good luck.

3665. A black honey-bee is a sign of death.

3666. It brings bad luck to sell a beehive; if you sell one, the contents of two hives will die.

3667. All of your bees will die if you count your bee hives.

3668. If you ring a bell while bees are swarming, you can drown the orders of the kingbee or the lieutenants,

3669. When the head of the house dies, someone must go out to whisper his death to the bees; unless this precaution is taken, they will leave or die...........................................Negroes

3670. If a butterfly comes into the house, a lady will call wearing a dress of the same color.

3671. If a butterfly comes into the porch, somebody is coming.

3672. If you bite a butterfly's head off, you will have a dress the color of its wings, or, as some believe, the color of the butterfly.

3673. It causes bad luck to pull a butterfly's wing off. ...................................Mountains

3674. If a butterfly lights on you, you will get a new suit of clothes.

3675. It is a sign of good luck to have a butterfly light on your shoulder.

3676. Put some green pennyroyal in your pocket, to keep away chiggers .....................Mountains

3677. When a crab bites one, it will not let go until there is thunder.

3678. If a crawfish catches your toes, it will hold on until there is thunder.

3679. To kill a cricket will cause bad luck.

3680. If you kill a cricket, the rest of the crickets will eat your clothes.

3681. If a cricket is killed, it's mate will come and cut the socks or stockings of the killer.

3682. A cricket brings luck into a house.

3683. It brings bad luck for a cricket to crawl over a hoe..................................Mountains

3684. It brings good luck to hear a cricket singing after you go to bed at night.

3685. A doodle-bug will obey the following rhymed command, spoken at its hole:

"Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, come out of your hole, If you don't I'll beat you as black as a mole."

3686. If you speak the following words at a doodle-bug's hole it will come up:

"Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, doodle-bug, Jim fire's burning up."

3687. If after catching an eel you draw a circle around it, it cannot get out of the circle.

3688. If you put your initials on a terrapin's shell he will never leave your farm.