death omen
Mortality's advance warning
A death omen is a sign believed to foretell someone's impending death.
Traditional examples include a black cat crossing one's path, an owl hooting near a house, or a clock stopping unexpectedly.
The term applies both to folk beliefs and to fictional portents: The raven was considered a death omen in many cultures.
Also called a portent of death or harbinger of doom.
- portentSign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- bad signForeboding indicator
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
raven · crow · banshee · black cat · black dog · owl · specter · warning · ill-fated · doom · curse · superstition · apparition · shadow · knell · tolling · vulture · moth
- scary storiesghost story, horror story, scary story, spine-chiller, campfire story
- literary deathdeathbed, dying, corpse, funeral, grave
- folk wisdomproverb, folklore, folk sayings, saying, proverbs
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- ghostsapparitions, ghosts, apparition, phantoms, specter
- Death MythsGrim Reaper, Anubis, Hades, Osiris, Charon
valence of sign
death omengood omen
Favorable sign of future
blessing · benediction · good luck charm · white butterfly · rainbow
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