If an owl hits your car while driving is it bad luck?

Answer 1

On the contrary. In rural Lincolnshire it's considered to be a sign of good luck so much so that people actually go out at night in their cars and try and deliberately hit owls.

Answer 2

The only reason owls have this "bad luck" vibe about them is because back in the old old olden days the screech of an owl was thought to be a troubled spirit or ghoul, and if you have ever heard a barn owl call it sound like someone being murdered, so it was originally thought to be bad luck when you heard this noise and to see an owl was a bad omen. The most common owl in Britain is the barn owl, and when you see this white bird flying silently at a distance it is spooky and looks a bit ghostly, this is why people thought they were spirits wandering the night. It is also said that it is bad luck to see an owl in the daytime, if this is so i must be the unluckiest person ever because my owl sits right outside my living room window all day and goes inside at night.
I very much doubt that owls bring bad luck. If an owl hits your windscreen and causes you to crash your car, you probably crashed your car trying to avoid the owl. Owls have terrible eyesight and fly incredibly slow and low so it is common for owls to be hit by vehicles. Would you be so worried if you hit a pigeon.

Answer 3

The odds on being hit by an owl whilst driving must be million to one, I personally have never seen an owl driving so on that basis it must be terribly bad luck

Answer 4

It's the pretend owls which get on my goat. My ex girlfriend was scared to death of owls for some weird reason and she woke me up at 5am saying she was scared because a wood pigeon was going 'Hoo-hoo-hoo' outside. Even after I pointed out that even if it was an owl, it'd hardly fly through the window and attack her and being nocturnal, it wouldn't be singing to celebrate the dawn chorus. In the end I just got out my book about birds from the front room and showed her the page about Wood Pigeons. In answer to your question, I've wasted a lot of my life being superstitious and you're going to get good or bad luck no matter how many black cats cross your path (good luck in England), mirrors you break or ladders you walk under.

Answer 5

It's bad luck for the poor owl.

Answer 6

Not if you live in machester
the odds are too high, as your car is probably on bricks
or burnt out in a field. Therefore rendring it motionless
and the owl has great eyesight and would easily avoid such an obstruction
So in some cases yes

I misunderstood, only if he leaves the scene
do owls drive

Answer 7

For the owl? Yes, terrible luck.

Answer 8

sadly it usually is bad luck ---- for the owl.

although some merely get concussed
and recover ,to fly again as if nothing had happened

Owls are almost impossible, to avoid
as they fly down ,for some unfortunate small prey,
at an incredible speed
ignoring the traffic

>^,,^<

Answer 9

I would think it was bad luck on the owl, must have ruffled a few feathers

Answer 10

It sounds like it replaced into in basic terms an twist of fate, I incredibly does no longer undertaking approximately it. Owl superstitions are previous, no longer all superstitions have been undesirable, yet plenty have been linked with dying and ghosts. Owls have been additionally believed to deliver sturdy fortune in some cultures.