Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — A Queer Superstition. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Superstition.

The Arabs have a superstition that the stork has a human heart. When one of these birds builds its nest on a housetop they believe that the happiness of that household is insured for that year The great painter Razzi filled his house with all sorts of animals, and taught his raven to cry “Come in” whenever than was a knock at the door.