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Rh notion that breaking crockery would follow the taking of its nest; its song bodes ill to sick people; raps at the windows of the dying; sings on altar at Hurstpierpoint before a death, 124; “weeping” near a house a death warning (Suffolk), 60

St. Mark’s Eve: watchers in church porch see forms of those doomed to die; an old woman at Scarborough saw herself; a sexton who thereby counted the