If the crow (vāyasa) be seen to move its wing fearfully and strike with its feet the branches of trees, there will be fear of injury from destructive fires; if it be seen to throw into the house a red substance, a burnt substance or straw or a piece of wood, there will also be fear of injury from fire. If the crow be seen to cry from the house turning to the east, south, west, or north, the master of the house will respectively suffer from kings, robbers, quarrels and loss of cows, if such quarter be a dīpta one.