| Show WHY WH Y of superstitions by H IRVINO KINQ it BIRDS IN THE WINDOW 66 athe yes ES we failed said a nan man to the writer the other day 1 I knew we would the first day we opened the shop a bird flew in at the window I 1 told my partner then we would never make a go of it IL let anyone investigate and tie will be surprised how many people of his acquaintance believe a bird flying ln in at a window brings bad luck here we have a survival from the dim shadowy days of old your respected ancestor Stone hatchet probably felt as perturbed when a bird flew into his cavas ca vetas you do when one flies files into your drawing room primitive man considered everything with relation to himself an and d what he could not cot understand he be was suspicious of birds could fly he could not therefore there ther ewas was something supernatural about birds he himself representing the natural pa tural when a bird for no apparent reason violated the rules and came flying into his cave something ing was wrong it was unusual and the unusual puzzled and scared the prim primitive mit roan here we get the origin ot of a bird 11 superstition which survives tn in its original form unto this day modified tri in some cases though by other superstitions ions which gradually gathered about birds thus in some sections a bird flying into a room Is considered to be or to symbolize a soul come for another soul and thus to td portend death this comes from the idea w which aich grew up among some tribes of bf the transmigration of souls into birds also primitive man become became obsessed with the idea that birds somehow indicated the future the early name for the chief of theroman the roman augurs was the observer of birds the word augur itself which means in not t only onh onea who predicts but also the act of predicting though of uncertain origin lias has been thought by many philologists to come from a combination of two words meaning cleaning bird talk Q by syndicate |
