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From March to September, sparrows observe the lives of people. When a touch of fall begins to arrive, sparrows fly to Gangnam, where the goddess lives. The birds then tell what they have seen to her, who will reward or punish the mortals for their deeds. (2/2)

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My favorite version of the Firebird is the Slavic Where a magical feather summons a Firebird! One that casts a sleeping spell & tells our hero how to destroy the villian. By throwing the egg (where the soul resides); breaking it, & the curse!

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Wild Swans.
📸 me; illust. by Susan Jeffers, The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen.

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The children of Lir is an Irish legend about a king's four children who are turned into swans for nine hundred years by their jealous step mother.


Art by P J Lynch

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8. The is a in It is a human sized black and white bird, said to summon and with its & & is said to have an insatiable for
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6. In the was a that would visit the homes of the The Caladrius was able to take the into itself and then fly away, dispersing the sickness and both itself and the sick person.
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John Anster Fitzgerald often paired birds and fairies in his paintings. He would frame some of his pictures in a fragile mesh of gilded twigs so that they resembled a nest...

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Stravinsky’s “Firebird” was written for the ballet. The firebird holds a sacred place in Russian folklore. A symbol of doom to hope, the Firebird’s rise from its ashes has inspired many. It inspires me & is playing whenever I write.
🖼️ Ballets past & present

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The Morrigan and her sisters are most commonly associated with crows and ravens, carrion feeders who flock to fields of battle like the three war goddesses. Commonly she/they can transform into crows, as displayed in the tales of Cuchulainn.

🖼: J. Juta

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"As I was walkin' all alane
I heard twa corbies makin' mane
The 'tain unto the tither say, o
"Where shall we gang and dine the day, o
Where shall we gang and dine the day?"

"Twa Corbies" (two ravens) tells a grim tale of said birds feasting on a slain knight

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In the Tsimshian cycle Raven the Trickster sees that the world is covered in darkness. He then returns to the heaven & as a cedar leaf is swallowed by the chief’s daughter. Born as her son he steals the daylight, wears his raven skin & flies in the world w/ it.

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One by one, brave knights in armour rode out to fight the Dragon. But their lances were too old and too blunt to pierce its iron scales, and they choked on its poisonous smoke.

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My research pinboard while writing Day 3. The Cheshire Prophet Robert Nixon. Said to be a stupid ploughboy yet if he existed, foretold death of Charles I, Great Plague & 'Three years of great wars,' one still to come...
https://t.co/tncPrEqk2U

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Some magical birds by Arthur Rackham for you all today (circa 1906-15). Somehow, with his fairy-tale eye, he made these feathered friends seem enchanted, unique, & wise all at the same time. ☺️🪶💕

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The and The Rose by Oscar Wilde is a of love, loss, sacrifice, selfishness and selflessness. First published in 1888 in the The Happy Prince and Other
Beautifully illustrated here by P J Lynch.

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Kalaviṅka or in Japanese Karyōbinga is a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso. It is said to sing while still unhatched within its eggshell. Its voice is a descriptor of the Buddha's voice. Image by Katsushika Hokusai.

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In Finnish mythology, Siberian Jay could hold human souls. The souls that passed on into a Siberian jay were hunters, witches, people who had gotten lost and died in the forest. Sometimes even forest sprites would move into a jay.

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"Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf" is a Russian fairytale collected in the 19th century by Alexander Afanasyev and illustrated in 1969 by Nika Goltz. Ivan has to capture a firebird which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor.

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In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl Blodeuwedd. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers The Owl Service 1960 was born

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