Lucky Leaf
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The oak tree is lucky for money and health. Try to catch a falling oak leaf in autumn, before it touches the ground. Keep the leaf safely in your purse or wallet to ensure it will never be empty. If an oak leaf accidentally catches you on your person, this is very lucky and you should keep it safe. Likewise, if a bramble catches on your clothes it is considered lucky.
Owls
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An owl is often considered to be a bird of ill omen, and to hear an owl foretells bad news, but personally I love to hear the owls at night and find comfort in their nearness.
Owls are a symbol of wisdom and often associated with goddess figures in different cultures. However, to kill an owl is very bad luck, as is seeing one hunting in the daylight hours during winter, which foretells a time of need. But this is not true in the long summer days, when the owl needs to feed its family and the hours of darkness are short.
Robins and Wrens
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The robin and the wren are both lucky creatures. They bring good news if they fly into your home, but a dead wren or robin near your door warns of bad news on the way.
Magpies
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Members of the crow family, magpies are a sign of good luck if two are seen together, but one chattering near your property could be a warning of theft. This probably arises from the magpie's love of bright objects, which they will often collect to decorate their nests.
Swallows
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It is a fortunate house that has swallows nesting under the eaves. Good fortune will abide within. But if you destroy the nests and kill the birds, all happiness will fly away with them.
Rooks
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To have a property with a rookery on it, or in sight, is very fortunate, as long as the colony is fruitful. But if the rooks should desert the rookery, disaster and death are predicted. It is inviting disaster to shoot rooks.
A Lincolnshire businessman laughed at this "superstition" when he destroyed a colony on his property, but found himself bankrupt within a year and finally shot himself with the very gun he had used on the rooks.
In Ireland, when one was buying property that was blessed with a rookery the deal was once considered null and void if the rooks deserted the rookery within a year of the sale.
Crows and Ravens
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All members of the crow family are surrounded by mystery. Considered to be exceptionally wise and intelligent, some country people say that crows can live to be three hundred years old. The god Odin has two ravens associated with him, and Noah sent a raven out from the ark after the flood.
To see one crow is said to bring sorrow, while two mean joy. However , for some, it is the behavior of the birds which is significant, not how many there are. A crow standing in the road signifies a happy journey, while a dead crow might be cause to turn back.
Cockerels and Doves
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Cockerels are prominent in folk tradition, sounding a warning or reproaching the guilty. A cockerel crowing in the night brings ad news the next day. If a cockerel should crow on the afternoon of a wedding day in the hearing of the happy couple, it foretells an unhappy and quarelsome marriage, and if a cockerel should stand in the bride's path and crow complete disaster is forecast. On the other hand, if the newly married pair should come across a pair of cooing doves, the marriage will be long and happy.
owls are pretty and I can see why people say they are unlucky lol.
When I was younger I fell asleep at the beach and my grandma forgot about me and left me there where I was almost eaten by wild dogs that whole night I kept hearing an owl so I guess I could believe it but still they are so cute and whats better they can catch mice.
