Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1906 — Peacock Feathers. [ARTICLE]

Peacock Feathers.

Unhu'klness seems to be. confinedto the bringing of the tail feathers of Juno's bird Into a house. I am not aware that this Idea Is held outside this country, and If it is confined to England many various cansea may have led to the belief, which possibly arose In comparatively modern times —no earlier than the crusades. Nothing is more probable than that several crusaders brought home the gorgeous feathers as curiosities, a strange sight and so likely to make a deep Impression. Nothing is easier to conceive than that some misfortune—death from disease, loss of wealth or other “bad luck”—may have happened to more than one possessor of the beautiful feathers and that they would on that account soon be credited with being the cause. A belief of this' kind once started Is of rapid growth and very long lived. London Notes and Queries.