omens in literature

[cacian]

what omens have you come across in books?

the first that comes to mind is

good omens~ terry pratchet~

The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan, the coming of the End Times and the attempts of the angel Aziraphale and the demon (Anthony J) Crowley to avert them, having become accustomed to their comfortable situations in the human world.

[kev67]

There were several omens in Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A rooster crowed in the afternoon when Angel and Tess had just wed. Alec persuades Tess to swear an oath on what he thinks is a religious monument, but it turns out the monument was cursed. Later, Tess hears the d'Urberville coach, which is a portent of doom.

[Whosis]

Early in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a spider burns up in a candle, which is seen as a bad omen. Rain is a great bad omen. :p

[Lokasenna]

what omens have you come across in books?

the first that comes to mind is

good omens~ terry pratchet~

The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan, the coming of the End Times and the attempts of the angel Aziraphale and the demon (Anthony J) Crowley to avert them, having become accustomed to their comfortable situations in the human world.

One of my favourite novels... never fails to have me laughing out loud.

Of course, omens are a recurring motif in so much literature that it would be difficult to list them. In the case of Gaiman and Pratchett, the title is obviously a reference to the film The Omen, which they are conciously parodying.