Doing a research project about eclipses. In some cultures, were eclipses ever seen as bad omens and if so WHY?

Question

I want to include in my report a section on mythology in astronomy.

Answer 1

there was one culture that believed that an eclipse was when a wizard stole the sun out of the sky and when it came back it was because the wizard was killed by the gods.  

Answer 2

Yes, because it is scary when the Sun goes out in the middle of the day.

Answer 3

"Eclipse: Disaster, end of the world.  In a far-reaching belief, an eclipse is the swallowing of the sun or moon by a monster; some of the monsters are: Alka, Buriat, Asura Svarbhanu, Rahu.  Figuratively, cast into shadow, darken, hide...

In Babylonian mythology period of darkness caused by seven devils invading the vault of heaven and surrounding the moon-god.  In China, caused by a dragon, which appears when an emperor lacks virtue and devours the sun or moon.  In Japanese mythology caused when the sun-goddess A-materasu retreated to escape the brutality fo her brother Susa-no-wo, [the] storm-deity."