Archive for 'Literature'
Plant Your Feathers By Cyndie Morrell (McAuliff)
Today, I have the pleasure of sharing with you a story written by one of our readers, Cyndie Morrell. Now, it’s all hers…
Dedicated to my mom, Faith Booth, who encouraged rather than ridiculed me when I started planting feathers in the pot full of dying foliage that graced the lobby of her apartment building.
Plant Your [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2011 under corvid, Corvids, Crow, Crow art, crows, Literature, lore, story.
Tags: crow stories, crow story, Cyndie Morrell, plant your feathers, stories about crows, story about crows
Comments: 3
The Crow Girls
After the fantastic response to my audio recording of Charles de Lint’s Make a Joyful Noise (listen to it here), I decided to make a concerted effort to find all the literary references to these two magical characters, the Crow Girls. I have read them in various stories and books of Charles de Lint’s. I [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2011 under art, Charles de Lint, corvid, Corvid Art, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Crow, Crow art, crows, folklore, Literature, mythology, Rook, The Crow Girls.
Tags: Charles De Lint, Crow girls, Mary Ann Harris, Newford series, The crow girls, The Crow Girls Christmas
Comments: 2
Make a Joyful Noise Audio Recording
A few weeks ago I posted about Make a Joyful Noise written by Charles de Lint (read post here). I enthusiastically shared two of my favorite literary characters, the Crow Girls, Maida and Zia. This story is not available to purchase anymore but since I had a copy I thought I would ask the author [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2011 under art, corvid, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, Crow art, crows, Crows in literature, cultural reference, Culture, Fables, folklore, fun, intelligence, Literature, lore, myth, mythology, Myths about ravens.
Tags: Charles De Lint, Charles DeLint, Crow girls, crows and literature, literature about crows, Make a Joyful Noise, The crow girls
Comments: 17
A Crow Story by Leigh Hilbert
, originally uploaded by SparkyLeigh.
One sunny day in the small fishing village of Tofino, my then home on the outer west coast of Canada, I was in the mood to visit friends. I chose Jasper and Cristina on Neill Street. Jasper was out but Cristina put on some tea and we sat chatting in her [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2011 under art, Crow, Literature, lore.
Tags: crow story, story about a crow
Comments: 1
The Crow and the Pitcher more than fable?
The Crow and the Pitcher, originally uploaded by AnnaleeBlysse.
Scientists believe the fable of the crow and the pitcher might have been fairly accurate given the new research showing rooks using rocks to raise the level of water where a worm resided… to bring the worm up to their level.1
They are such incredibly intelligent birds. The [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2010 under Aesop, corvid, corvid brain, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crows, Crows in literature, Fables, feeding, folklore, Food, intelligence, Literature, lore, research, Rook, Tool Use.
Tags: Aesop's fable, crow and the pitcher, crow intelligence, fluid mechanics, intelligence, the crow and the pitcher, Tool Use
Comments: 1
Make a Joyful Noise
Crows make for interesting subjects in art and photography and they also make for meaningful symbols and delightful characters in literature. This is one of my favorite depictions of the magic of crows…
Charles de Lint imagined a pair of crow girls, Zia and Maida, who are mischievous and magical. They are obsessed with shiny objects [...]
Posted: December 14th, 2010 under Books about crows, Corvids, Crow, crows, Crows in literature, Literature.
Tags: Charles De Lint, Charles DeLint, Crow girls, crows in literature, Make a Joyful Noise, The crow girls
Comments: 6
