... Sacrificed: not only to propitiate the gods, but toobtain omens or signs for their future guidance... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...In the days when omens were observed, it was considered a matterof high import to hear the song of the Nightingale before that ofthe Cuckoo...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...He can undertake nothing whatever unless the sorcerershave declared the omens favourable; he may not eat warm food: oncertain days he may not quit his hut; and so on...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
... Apparently flying foxes are good omens in Tubetube (Southern Massim)...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...Thucydides does not so much as mention the coincidence, but Plutarchtells us those who took account of omens were full of concern for thefate of their countrymen...
Jane Ellen Harrison 「Ancient Art and Ritual」
...[Beltane cakes and fires in the parishes of Logierait andKirkmichael; omens drawn from the cakes...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...[The Midsummer fires in Swabia; omens drawn from the leaps overthe fires; burning wheels rolled down hill; burning the Angel-Manat Rottenburg...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...From thestones cast into the fire omens may perhaps be drawn, as inScotland, Wales, and probably Brittany...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...But before the corn was brought into the city they were told to consult the soothsayers, who were to divine the future and ascertain whether the omens were favourable...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
...But the entrails presented discouraging omens, and thesacrifice was again renewed...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
...As I say, they are becoming extremely rare; their rarity, which may beeasily accounted for, is one of the evil omens of the time...
Anthony M. Ludovici 「Nietzsche and Art」
...TheGreeks and Romans considered them as celestial omens, and kept some ofthem in temples...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...They were simply the compilation of lists ofcrude astrological omens, of the most foolish and unreasoning kind...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Letus rather accept the joyful omens of the time, and trust that, asthe barrier has begun to yield, it will speedily be effectuallyprostrated...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...The "signs of heaven" were symbols ofgreat spiritual events, not omens of mundane disasters...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
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