Nothing can bring better luck to a house and its inmates than for swallows to build their nests round it; or, on the other hand, be a worse omen than for the nests to be forsaken. Terrible penalties are paid by the rash hand that destroys or robs a swallow’s nest. Rain will continuously descend on his crops for a month, or his cows will cease to give milk, or else give it mixed with blood; or death, or some great calamity, will fall upon his family.
Swainson/Birds, 1886
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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