| Category | | Superstition |
| General Superstitions: | | It is bad luck to see an owl in the sunlight. |
| General Superstitions: | | If an owl is staring at your house, someone there will die. |
| Halloween Superstitions: | | Many people used to believe that owls swooped down to to eat the souls of the dying. If they heard an owl hooting, they would become frightened. A common remedy was thought to be, turning your pockets inside out and you would be safe |
| Bad Luck superstitions: | | Bad Luck: An owl hooting 3 times |
| Bad Luck superstitions: | | Bad Luck: seeing an owl during daylight |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | The ancient Greeks revered owls and believed them sacred to Athena. Affiliated with the goddess of wisdom and learning, the owl was considered wise and kind. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | hearing the hoot of an owl is now associated with bad luck. To counter evil owl power put irons in your fire. Or throw salt, hot peppers or vinegar into the fire, the owl will get a sore tongue, hoot no more, and no one close to you will be in trouble. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | Any man who eats roasted owl will be obedient and a slave to his wife. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | If an owl lands on the roof of your house, it is an omen of death. Constant hooting near your house also foretells death. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | If an owl hoots at the moment of childbirth, the child will have an unhappy life. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | The Irish believe that if an owl flies into a house it must be killed immediately. If it escapes, it will take the luck of the house with it. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | If an owl nests in an abandoned house, then the dwelling must be haunted. An owl is the only creature that can abide a ghost. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | If an owl hoots during a burial service, the deceased is bound to rise from the grave and haunt the living. |
| Animal Superstitions: Owl: | | An owl living in the attic of a house will cause a pregnant woman to miscarry. |
| Mining Superstitions: | | The old alluvial tin streamers had many taboos about using the names of animals and birds which they might meet with in the mines; and so referred to the owl as the braced farcer, the fox as the long tail, the cat as a rooker, and the rat as a peep. |
