Similar to other cultures and countries, many people from Mexico believe that owls are a sign of death or sickness as well as bad luck. One Mexican saying roughly translates into “When the owl cries, the Indian dies”. Mexicans along with people from other parts of the world have historically regarded as the cry of appearance of an owl as a bad omen which suggests that death is near.
To this day there are still a number of people in small Mexican towns which fear the owl and genuinely believe the old superstitions which state that the owl is a symbol of death, sickness, and bad luck to those who are visited by one.
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