Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 9: A Medium for Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January-June 1890
The pigeon is always a sinister bird in folk-lore. It isa common superstition that no one can die happy on a bed of pigeons' feathers, and for the bird to settle on a chimney portends death.
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