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the country. 621 The sound of the owl is generally considered
inauspicious (72.3.7).
When carnivorous beasts and monkeys are seen roaring
104 and yelling near a city-gate and dogs are seen crying and
weeping in the cemetery, danger to the city is clearly
indicated (64.8.1). Similar danger is indicated when animals
and birds gather in large numbers, carnivorous beasts start
howling (64.7.1. Cf. BS 46.67), and crows act like cranes
near the city-gates (64.5.3) and strike the earth with their
beaks (64.7.9). When wild animals move about in a city or
a village (64.4.7), inauspicious animals, birds or reptiles
105 enter a house, or when a honey-comb is seen in a house or
106 when carnivorous beasts enter a palace, it prognosticates
evil (70.5.4-5). The city wherein wild deer (ruru), spotted
antelope (prsata) and other beasts are seen moving about,
soon turns into a forest. The minister in that place will
be killed in the seventeenth fortnight, and there will be
great danger to the people (71.3.3).
If frogs and scorpions harass a serpents the king will
be killed (64.8.8). If animals, which are, by nature,
antagonistic to one another, are seen together in friendly
104. AVP 64.7.9; 70.32.22. Cf. BS 46.68.
105. Cf. C.Hole, "Popular modern ideas on folklore",
Folklore LXVI, p.324. Kaus. (93.30; 123) prescribes a
rite to be performed when a bird or beast touches the
oblation-material.
106. Cf. BS 46.68. The sight of an animal or a bird carry-
ing a piece of flesh is considered ominous by Kaus.
(93.36; 129).