Cockerels and Doves

Cockerels are prominent in folk tradition, sounding a warning or reproaching the guilty. A cockerel crowing in the night brings ad news the next day. If a cockerel should crow on the afternoon of a wedding day in the hearing of the happy couple, it foretells an unhappy and quarelsome marriage, and if a cockerel should stand in the bride's path and crow complete disaster is forecast. On the other hand, if the newly married pair should come across a pair of cooing doves, the marriage will be long and happy.