Gwrach y Rhibyn was an ugly old hag with long flowing hair, glaring eyes and face as gloomy as death itself. The shriek of the old hag was supposed to foretell a death or some misfortune. She appeared, as a rule, only before the death of a person who had lived a wicked life; at least this is the saying in West Wales, especially in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. CWN ANNWN--HELL HOUNDS. Cwn Annwn were supposed to have been supernatural hounds whose yelling or howling on dark nights foreboded a death. If the howling was faint, it meant that the pack was close at hand, if loud, the hounds were only hunting at a distance. These hounds were supposed to watch for the souls of notoriously wicked men about to die. An old farmer, named Mr. Thomas Stephens, Llwyncelyn, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, informed me that his brother once heard the bark of these hounds on the road near Bronwen. OTHER DEATH OMENS. The Cock.--It was once thought in all parts of Wales that the crowing of a cock before or about midnight was a sign of death; but whether one of the family or one of a neighbour's family was going to die, it depended on the direction of the cock's head whilst crowing. The Hen.--A hen crowing like a cock is also supposed to indicate a death in the family or some very near relation; or if not death, some very bad luck. A hen laying two eggs in the same day was also a sign of death. A hen laying a small egg was also a bad sign. An Owl persistently screeching near a house or a raven croaking hoarsely also indicated a death. The Dog.--A dog howling, which is called in Welsh Ci-yn-udo, is a sign of a death. The Death Watch.--A sound made by a small insect like the ticking of a watch was once considered a sign of death. A few years ago a sound of this kind was for a long time heard at a house in the parish of Llanddewi Brefi; but as no one died in the house, the family was cured of the superstition. The sound in the ear as of a bell, is a token of death in the family. Clothes Burning.--A farmer's wife near Aberystwyth, informed me that a few years ago she placed a servant boy's wet trousers on a chair to dry before the fire. Then she went out to milk the cows, but when she returned to the house she found that the trousers was burnt. A few days after this her mother died. The untimely blossoming of a tree is another sign of a death. Yarrow and Heather.--Bringing either yarrow or heather into a house is a presage of death; white heather, however, is a sign of good luck. Death-pinch.--This is a mark that cannot be accounted for, appearing suddenly on any part of the body, and is a sign of the death of one of the family or a relative. A Funeral Procession moving too fast is a sign that another funeral will soon follow. MISSING A BUTT. A writer in "Bye Gones" for 1892 says:--