…heart-rending scream, and in spite of the remonstrance of the police, every one, saving myself and the constables who held me, made a rush for the door. The master of the house was lying on the floor beside his bed, face downwards, with the back of his skull smashed to pulp. He did it with his jemmy, without a doubt, I heard someone say.” See, there are bloodstains on his coat!” — Which of course there were, stains from my own blood. Then the police sergeant formally charged me with the murder; my clothes were searched, and all the trinkets I had nabbed from the dressing- table were brought to light.”And all the while this was taking place, that demon of a traitress was kneeling beside her dead husband — the man she hated and whom, I am positive, she killed — moaning and groaning, and calling upon Heaven, in…

…The eagles in dream represent freedom, intelligence, power, bravery, beauty and grace. The eagles also represent the rebirth of the dreamer’s consciousness and unconsciousness. The dream shows that you will reveal the great potential within your personality. If you see the eagle that wears chains, then it shows your inability to express yourself, because of the bad influence from others. Perhaps you feel that you cannot use what you have got. If you see the nest of the eagles, then such dream shows the beginning of important thing that is growing. You have killed the eagle in a dream, then it shows the disappointments you will suffer, because of your silly actions. You must concentrate and do not make any serious mistakes anymore. The dream also shows that you are going to use even the worse tools in order to achieve what you want. You might do some damage…

…father died, and I dreamed one huge magpie flew in at the door and perched on one of the knobs at the foot of my bed, exactly a week before the death of my eldest son.”I, too, have dreamed of magpies, and, as in the case I have just quoted, the dreams have always occurred shortly before a death. The night a very near relative of mine died, I dreamed a large number of magpies flew in at my window; and the day before a dog to which I was very much attached was run over and killed, I dreamed two magpies settled on my shoulder, and that I could not make them go. Also, when I was living in a big, rambling house in Cornwall, I dreamed a raven flew down the chimney and pecked me vigorously three times on the hand. Indeed, the pecks hurt me so much…