Description: If a sparrow enters a house it is an omen of the death of one of the people who live there.
Origin: Roman
For the ancient Romans, sparrows were sacred to a group of family gods called the Penates, and carried the souls of the newly dead from a household. In later times the appearance of a sparrow in a house foretold an impending death; the solution was to catch and kill the bird, which might prevent the death, but brought more general bad luck.