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Legendary Ravens
Ravens are majestic birds and thus inspire great and terrible legends, myths, folklore and superstitions. It is no wonder with their capacity for intelligence. Ravens have exactly the same brain-to-body ratio as dolphins and almost the same as humans. “If crows were human, their average IQ would be 135 (the average for humans is 100!)”1 [...]
Posted: April 14th, 2009 under corvid, Corvidae, Corvids, folklore, Huginn, intelligence, learning, legend, lore, Memory, Muninn, myth, mythology, Myths about ravens, Odin, origin of raven, Raven, Raven myths, ravens, superstitions.
Tags: beliefs about ravens, raven beliefs, raven folklore, raven lore, raven mythology, Raven myths, raven superstitions, ravens and beliefs, ravens and folklore, ravens and legends, ravens and lore, ravens and mythology, ravens and myths, ravens and superstitions, Ravens are intelligent
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Rooks, Easter Lore and More
Like many in the corvid family Rooks are attached to many legends, myths, lore and superstitions. In Shropshire, it was believed that rooks never carried sticks to their nests on Sundays or Ascension Day, but simply sat quietly on trees and did not work. It was also believed to be futile to wear new clothes [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2009 under Easter Lore, etymology, folklore, legend, lore, myth, mythology, name origin, Rook, stealing, suspicious.
Tags: corvid legend, corvids and legends, corvids and myths, frugilegus, Rook, Rook origin, rookery, Rooks, rooks and easter folklore, rooks and easter legends, Rooks and easter lore, rooks and easter myths, the meaning of the word rook, the rook and easter folklore, the rook and easter legend, the rook and easter lore, the rook and easter myths, the rook and england, Where the name rook came from?
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Magpie (pica pica) Rhymes
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told.
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One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven you’ll see the de’il himsel’
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One for sorrow, two for joy;
Three for a girl, four for a boy;
Five for silver, [...]
Posted: April 10th, 2009 under legend, Magpie, Magpie nursery rhyme, Magpie Rhyme, nursery rhymes, nursery rhymes about magpies, Pica pica, play, playing, rhymes, songs about crows, songs about magpies.
Tags: Magpie, Magpie nursery rhyme, Magpie Rhyme, magpies, nursery rhyme about magpies, nursery rhymes about magpies
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Ravens in Norse Mythology
Ravens have often been featured in myths and legends, stories, poems, and religious beliefs. For example, the Norse God Odin was said to have a pair of ravens, Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory). They were said to travel the world from early morning to late into the evening each and every day in search of [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2009 under Huginn, legend, Memory, Muninn, mythology, Myths about ravens, Norse mythology, Odin, Raven myths, ravens, thought.
Tags: Huginn, Memory, Midgard, Muninn, Norse mythology, Odin, odin and ravens, Raven, raven myth, raven mythology, ravens and norse mythology, ravens and odin, thought
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Uncatchable
According to a story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, there once was a virgin princess, a girl so beautiful that she attracted the attention of the lecherous sea god, Poseidon. When sweet words failed to seduce her, the hot-blooded Poseidon attempted to take her by force, and the girl called to the heavens for help. Her plea [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2008 under Athena, folklore, Greeks, legend, myth, Poseidon, story.
Tags: Athena, Coronis, Crow, folkore, Greek, legend, metamorphoses, myth, ovid, Poseidon, princess, sea god, virgin, wisdom
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Demon Bird
During the witch craze in Western Europe, ravens and crows were sometimes feared as demons. In Strathnaver, Scotland, for example, in the seventeenth century, an entire congregation of prayerful souls was seized with dread when they sensed a spectral raven in the house with them. Evil emanated from this shadowy presence, and the people were [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2008 under folklore, legend, myth, Raven, story.
Tags: bird, curse, Demon, folklore, legend, myth, Raven, scotland, story
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