Crows and Death;

junkyard

I'm not sure if its true or not but I've heard the a bird flying into your house is a sign that someone will die in the house. A few years ago a crow flew into my garage where I work and landed on a ledge high up where we couldn't reach. We tried to hunt the crow out but it didn't seem to want to leave. A few days later the crow was still up on the ledge, not moving and seem to be frozen there but still alive. The thing was that it couldn't get out only when we opened the garage door. This was Friday and we were closing up for the weekend so the guy working for me and myself decided to give it one more chance to hunt the crow out but after half an hour it was going nowhere. Anyway, that evening the guy working for me was killed in a traffic accident and I often wondered if the crow was some kind of an omen of death or something. The strange thing was that the following morning I went out to my garage and the crow was nowhere to be found, if it was dead on the ground I would of found it, it wasn't up on the ledge as I could see if it was and it couldn't get out as I was the only one with a key. Strange but true.:eek:

elivsvonchiaing

Personally I guess you've seen the move "The Crow" and are just freaked out by events. I would not read anything more into it if I were you.

**** just happens!.

gardenlily

I've never seen so many crows and that was in Singapore they are everywhere.
Just dont believe something will happen.

Zombrex

junkyard wrote:

Strange but true.:eek:

Birds have a long history in European superstition for predicting certain events, lucky and unlucky. Even the symbol or image of a bird in a house can be considered very unlucky to some.

There was a thread on this a few months ago that was moved to Spirituality. Can't actually find it because I can't work out this (not very good it seems) new search system they have on Boards.ie

6th

elivsvonchiaing wrote:

....**** just happens!.

Yeah you're right, lets not question anything and walk around with our hands in our pockets hummimg.


Seriously there was an ok thread on here before about birds being messengers of death and to be honest i think there is something in it. Some animals are very sensitive to different energies (Penguins can see ultra violet light) and maybe some can sense when someones going to die. Now dont get me wrong I'm not nuts, I understand that this guy died in an accident and not of poor health (possible the accident was caused by him having a heartattack, fit etc?).

Still birds sensing the failing of health is just one suggestion but there are plenty more from numerous cultures which believe the spirit of the animal is that of a passed family member come to guide them to the next world. there's many more but i'm sure most of them would get ripped apart on here.

Nevyn

Crows and the other members of the corvius family are scavangers and will pick clean the flesh of bodies.
They would gather before battles and would not and gather arround those that were due to die be they animal or human.

Animal instinct or omens and portents or a spiritual meanings
it depends on your view and what you believe.

Thread in spirituality
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054869236

Saruman

Hey 6th remember in Charleville recently? There was a crow that flew inside the castle and was flapping around... freaked the girls out
Just reminding you of it. I do not believe anyone who was in the castle died since then.

I think it more a myth as crows are scavengers and while they cant sense death in the future... I would say they can pick up death once it happens like Vultures etc.

However thats an interesting story junkyard. Im sure its all true but i doubt the crow knew they guy would be killed in a car accident.

6th

Birds getting into the castle is nothing unusual (remember how much shit there was on the upper floors!).

I still wont dismiss there being something behind the harbingers of death view of things.

Zombrex

6th wrote:

I still wont dismiss there being something behind the harbingers of death view of things.

I think it is the other way around.

The original supersition is based on luck. The bird flying in doesn't fortell the person is going to die, the person is going to die because the bird flew in, an event that is bad luck (like breaking a mirror)

That is why some people won't even had pictures or wall paper of certain birds in their homes, they believe they make the home and the home owners unlucky to the point where they will die prematurely

6th

Wicknight wrote:

I think it is the other way around.

The original supersition is based on luck. The bird flying in doesn't fortell the person is going to die, the person is going to die because the bird flew in, an event that is bad luck (like breaking a mirror)

That is why some people won't even had pictures or wall paper of certain birds in their homes, they believe they make the home and the home owners unlucky to the point where they will die prematurely

From what i've read, including threads on here, its usually more a case of birds heralding a death as opposed to causing bad luck and ultimately the death of a person.

6th

Wicknight wrote:

The original supersition is based on luck.

I dont know of an original superstition? This is a belief which has very similar version spread over many cultures, to say there is an origin to it may be true but i'm sure its untraceable at this stage.

Zombrex

6th wrote:

I dont know of an original superstition? This is a belief which has very similar version spread over many cultures, to say there is an origin to it may be true but i'm sure its untraceable at this stage.

Sorry I mean the origin (at least in western europen and north america) of the supersition is based on the connection with birds and types of luck has origins in western europen, particularly england and germany, and the idea that a bird trapped in a home seems to be linked to this.

6th wrote:

From what i've read, including threads on here, its usually more a case of birds heralding a death as opposed to causing bad luck and ultimately the death of a person.

Well I'm sure the exact nature of the superstition varies from place to place and time to time, but as far as I know the bird in the house signifies bad luck, just as seeing certain other birds can mean good luck. This idea would make sense with the common supersition found in England and North America where people refuse to have any images of birds in their homes.