- An
omen (also
called portent) is a
phenomenon that is
believed to
foretell the ****ure,
often signifying the
advent of change. It was
commonly believed...
- Boios,
dated to
before the end of 4th
century BC. In this Gr**** myth, the
ill-
omened strīx
herself did not
perpetrate harm on humans. But one
paper suggests...
-
Disdemona (the
equivalent of Shakespeare's
Desdemona – her name
means "
ill-
omened" in Italian) is
named – the
others are
simply called the Moor (the equivalent...
-
Noctes Atticae,
written around 177 CE,
speculated that
Vejovis was an
ill-
omened counterpart of Jupiter;
compare Summ****.
Aulus Gellius observes that...
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cannibals who
would capture and eat
victims who
ventured too
close to the
ill-
omened location. The cave is
blackened with soot to this day,
allegedly from...
-
ornithomancy superstitions connected with magpies,
considered a bird of
ill omen in some cultures, and in Britain, at
least as far back as the
early sixteenth...
-
describes the work as a "doom-filled
painting with
threatening skies and
ill-
omened crows". Its dark
palette and
heavy brushstrokes convey a
sense of menace...
-
convenient given that
infanticide could as
easily have been
precipitated by an
ill-
omened birthmark."
Victor Davis Hanson, a
National Review columnist and former...
- were
several religious sites indicating that the area had "unhealthy and
ill-
omened" ****ociations. A
public cemetery was
located outside the
Esquiline Gate...
-
Victorian Undead is a
series of
comics about Sherlock Holmes and
Doctor Watson dealing with the supernatural. The
first series Victorian Undead: Sherlock...
