The Screech Owl

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Prompt: It is said that to keep the hag from giving you nightmares and bad sleep, you should lay a broom or rice in front of your door for her to count all night. What is a superstition or maybe a -stition you and/or your family believe in? ​ ​

The screech owl is really something that my Nana and family always will talk about. That if you hear a screech owl hoot three times it’s an omen of death, and then it carries into things happen in threes. So not only will there be a death, but there will be two other bad things that happen. And I remember, I live in Aiken, and I live in the south side. We’re not, you know, where I grew up, in the middle of nowhere with mountains and animals. And one night I was sleeping, and I awoke, and I heard an Owl hoot, and there’s nowhere really for an owl to be around. And I woke my husband up. I’m like, “Oh my god, someone’s gonna die.” And he thought I was absolutely crazy. And then I called my Nana, and she was on speaker phone. I’m like, “Nana, I heard an owl,” and she’s like, “Oh no, someone’s gonna die.” And he’s like, “Y’all are some special people.” That’s kind of where that is, but that’s still definitely something that all my relatives talk about is owl and their bad omens. 

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