Mustelam habes.

You have a weasel in your house, was said to persons with whom everything turned out unfortunate and perverse. To meet a weasel was considered by the ancients as ominous, and portending some misfortune about to happen.

Among huntsmen in this country, Erasmus tells us, it was in his time deemed an ill omen, if any one named a weasel when they were setting off for their sport.

Theophrastus, in his description of the character of a superstitious man, says; “If a weasel crosses the road he stops short, be his business never so pressing, and will not stir a foot till somebody else has gone before him and broke the omen; or till he himself has weakened the prodigy by throwing three stones.”