Taken from 'Superstitions of Nature'
Tradition has always said that the dove is only bird that the devil cannot harm and cannot enter its soul,,, a superstition by many miners was that if dove was sitting anywhere the mine shaft no one would go down the mine untill it had left, The indians also believe it is the soul of someone close to them and its forbidden to kill any.if a person is dying its said to place a pillow with pigen feathers below their head and they will make a recovery.