SC - Abso-Floggin'-Lutely OT - Re: Funeral Feasts

[ChannonM at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/30/99 1:16:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Elysant at aol.com 
writes:

<< eerrr.... actually, in Wales we do still think that if a wild bird flies 
into 
 the house 
 there will shortly be a death associated in some way with one of the people 
 who 
 live (or work) there.  (And yes I've seen it happen too - more than once).
   >>

Here in the hinter lands (jokingly),  we still comment that if a bird flies 
into a window (not necessarily through the window) it signifies an imminent 
death  BIG OMEN,  comes to mind. Now I'm not so sure where that originates in 
my family as my back ground is Irish (good old "morrigan" stories), 
French-Metis Canadian (the crow is symbolic to our ideas of death and 
delivery of messages), Catholic (oh now, be gentle on the poor little 
religion. Not being of the Catholic Church anylonger, I was still raised in 
it's mindset). I imagine that there are many more cultural issues. I think 
that if I was to pull out some Jungian theory, we'd see the bird as an 
archetypal symbol of messenger (look at that dove thing going on in the Bible)

Hauviette 
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