Some numbers are avoided.

Some signs are watched closely.

Some places are never entered at all.

For centuries, people across Britain have believed that the world speaks in symbols - if you know how to listen. A lone magpie. Salt spilled across a threshold. A black cat pausing in the road. Flickering lights said to mark the path of the dead.

There were not idle fears.

They were rules for survival in a world where luck, death and the unseen were thought to walk hand in hand.

In this episode of Mythic Albion, we explore the omens that shaped everyday life - the dread of the number thirteen, the warning cried of birds, corpse candles drifting through the dark, fairy rings avoided at all costs and animals believed to stand between worlds.

Were these beliefs born of coincidence, cultural memory, or something observed and misunderstood?

Some signs are still avoided. Some rituals still followed. And some superstitions refuse to die.

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