Show same queer beliefs held about cuckoos the cuckoo has been a bird of mystery from time out of 0 mind and many strange superstitions salli still center round it A common belief Is that whatever you are doing when you hear the cu cuckoos choos note for the first time jou iou will do most often during the year both aristotle and pliny remark that the cuckoo wakes makes no nest but lays her eggs in the nest of another bird it was once thought that one of the gods had taken the form of a cuckoo and it was then serious crime to kill the bird years ago the cuckoo was assort assoil buted with the character of the man whose wife was unfaithful this belief appears to have hae come from the romans and probably entered english fol folklore kore through the normans in many parts of england the old people still belleve bellee that the cuckoo Is only a hawk changed for a time and unable to forget its old habits they say tills this from the cuckoos habit of perching like hawks and owls on posts and ralls rails or on anything upright and detached and the old od folks also say that if an unmarried man hears the cuckoo he will remain a bachelor for as many years as he hears bears the cuckoo repeat its call |