danger-forewarning-call

Basajaun

“his footsteps or distinctive whistle in the night were taken as a warning that a storm or wolf attack was approaching.”

Knockers

“in some tellings a sudden burst of urgent knocking or hammering was read as a warning that a section of the mine was about to give way, sending miners scrambling clear”

Dinny Mara

“Pressed by the curious fleet to share their grounds, they told them honestly where they had fished; that night, off the Calf of Man, the crew heard the dinny mara speak from the water, in Manx: "It is calm and fine now but a storm is coming shortly." The Boys' Boat drew her nets and made harbor as the storm broke; the rest of the fleet was lost, and the fleet's controller afterward decreed that no crew should again be all single men.”

Hatif

“The old accounts, echoed across the compendia, agree on the office that follows from the definition — the hatif is a communicator, the deliverer of some needed intelligence in the way of advice, direction, or warning, arriving at exactly the moment the story requires it.”