**NOTE FOR THIS CLASS: the professor whom is teaching this course moved to a graveyard night schedule and isnt online during the days all that often at the moment. To recieve quills for this class, please PM her directly with the answers to these three questions:

1. What would a broom falling over signify (see lesson one)

2. Why is Omens NOT an exact science? (See lesson one)

3. Choose any omen or superstition from the list on this site and write me a paragraph on why you think you WOULD or WOULD NOT trust that sign....**

An omen or superstition is a phenomenon or everyday occurrence that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. Though the word "omen" itself is usually devoid of reference to the change's nature, hence being possibly either "good" or "bad", the term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word "ominous". Omens are found in many different cultures and in almost every part of the world. They can be as simple as watching a picture fall off the wall, a broom sliding out of its place, or even as hard to understand as the cry of the banshee. The list of omens is quite long and each omen has very detailed meaning. Superstitions are often passed down generation to generation, like 7 years of bad luck for breaking a mirror, or even something as simple as crossing a black cats path...Why is it that we search for these hidden clues to our own demise? Why do we continue to pass them down generation to generation?

In this class we will find out, not only what omens and superstitions are, but what they mean to us and the world around us.