Cackle
The cackling of hens in a dream often marks a sudden shock — news of an unexpected death nearby, sickness in the air. The dream tends to touch the jarring noise that breaks ordinary quiet with bad tidings, and to ask what abrupt, unsettling news we sense approaching, and how we will steady ourselves to receive it.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cackle, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To hear the cackling of hens denotes a sudden shock produced by the news of an unexpected death in your neighborhood, Sickness will cause poverty.