Insects:
- Ants (visible hills) the weather will be fair
- Bees (flying near you) a message or news is in route
- Cricket (entering the home) improved luck or friendship
- Flies (biting) rain is coming
- Moth (moving towards you) a letter or message
- It is unlucky to destroy an ant colony
- If ants are especially busy, bad weather is near
- If you kill the first ant you see you will conquer your enemies
- If ants build a nest near your door, you will have security an riches in the future
- Bee venom is a remedy for joint diseases
- If a bee flies into the house, a stranger is coming
- It is unlucky to kill a bee
- Beetles can bring on storms
- The sound of the death watch beetle tells of a coming death
- If you kill the first butterfly you see you will have luck all year long
- A golden butterfly near a dying person was considered to be a good omen of eternal happiness
- If the first butterfly you see in the year is yellow, you will become ill
- three butterflies on a leaf are unlucky. A butterfly flying at night is an omen of death
- If a black moth flies into a house, someone will die, however it it flies at you from the darkness, an important letter is on the way
- If a dragonfly hovers over a fisherman, he will have good luck with his catch
- If you kill a spider it will rain
- A cobweb will stop bleeding when laid on minor wounds
- If a girl finds a cobweb on her door, her lover is seeing another girl
- If you see a spider spinning its web you will get new clothes
- If a spider falls on you from a ceiling, it is good luck. If you find one crawling on your clothes money is coming