If these live in one's house, they succeed in removing calamity. The same is the case with cockroaches. If fireflies and vultures and woodpigeons and bees enter a house and live in it, acts of propitiating the celestials should be performed. These are creatures of evil omen, as also ospreys. One should never give out the secrets of great men; one should never have sexual union with a forbidden woman. Nor should one ever have such union with the consort of a king or with women who are the friends of qucens.
गृहेष्वेते न पापाय तथा वै तैलपायिकाः॥ उद्वीपकाश्च गृध्राश्च कपोता भ्रमरास्तथा। निवेशेयुर्यदा तत्र शान्तिमेव तदाऽऽचरेत्। अमङ्गल्यानि चैतानि तथाक्रोशो महात्मनाम्॥ महात्मनोऽतिगुह्यानि न वक्तव्यानि कर्हिचित्। अगम्याश्च न गच्छेत राज्ञः पत्नी सखीस्तथा॥