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The Three Ravens
I came across an interesting tale, The Three Ravens, it was originally an old English ballad and it has been told in various forms over time. This is a very different version of The Three Ravens told by Jim Henson’s The Storyteller. You can watch it here…
Watch The Storyteller – The Three Ravens in Entertainment | View [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2011 under corvid, Crow, crows, Fables, Fairy Tale, Raven, Raven myths, ravens, story, video.
Tags: English ballad, Jim Henson, The Three Ravens
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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
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Corvus frugilegus (The Rook)
Communique
Originally uploaded by Mark Cummins
Another excellent photograph found on flickr. This one is by Mark Cummins. If you click on the photograph it will take you to the URL where it is originally posted.
I am not 100% certain what particular bird this is in the corvidae family. However, I think it might be a rook [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, Flickr, Habitat, omnivorous, Photograph, Pictures, Range, Rook, story.
Tags: corvid, Corvidae, corvus, Corvus Frugilegus, Crow, Europe, Great Britain, Habitat, Rook, Rook diet, Rook habitat, Rook nesting, Rook poem, Rooks, story
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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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