Sentence examples for evil omen from inspiring English sources

They also rejected the night owl, which Arabs believe to be an evil omen.

So when, last month, a crack appeared by the statue's right breast, it was an evil omen.

Because a hundred years ago, Igbo culture considered the birth of twins to be an evil omen.

But a defeat in his first public test would be an evil omen, making the army even less willing to countenance his liberalisation plans for Spain.

A number of factors suggest that volatility could soon returnChina: An evil omen A women was beaten to death in a branch of McDonald's by members of an illegal religious sect.

In her 1959 Caldecott acceptance speech she explained: "How many children will know that the magpie sitting in my pollarded willow in 'Chanticleer and the Fox' is an evil omen?

In every cloud he beholds a destructive storm, in every flash of lightning an omen of evil, and in every shadow that falls across his path a lurking foe.

"After pregnancy the placenta needs to be put in a certain location, to avoid evil spirits and bad omen" (a man in Nakiloro village, Rupa Sub-county, Moroto District).

And what with months of the plague, shipwrecks, bandits, heatstroke, drunks, hailstorms, curses, omens and the evil eye, why not kick back for a day before returning to work?

It predates and predicts such fashionable fads as The Da Vinci Code, the omens of terrorist evil and the slow erosion of the citizenry's faith in the Federal Government".

Wigmore's installation, playfully renamed as Mind Control Tower, sees the timeworn defense system transformed with 'prayer flags' pieces of fabric draped around a building, inscribed with good omens in order to ward off evil spirits.