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Crow

Nature · Beings

A smaller corvid than the raven, often standing in for it in folk speech. The two birds should not be merged just because English blurs them.

European folklore

  • Crow resembles Raven.

    Crow and raven are related corvids. Folk omen-speech often blurs them; zoology and Norse Huginn do not.

    resembles · interpretive · culturally specific

  • Crow is associated with Death.

    European folk speech can treat a crow as a death-bird. The omen is local custom, not Tlingit Raven the creator.

    associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

  • Omen is associated with Crow.

    Folk speech often lets crow stand in for raven as a bird of ill luck. The blur is English; the two birds remain two animals.

    associated with · interpretive · culturally specific

Shinto

Islam

  • Crow appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an (5:31) has God send a crow to show how to hide the corpse of Abel’s brother. A named crow in that revelation, not Raven as the Northwest being already walked and not a generic omen bird dump.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

Hellenic religion

  • Crow appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 2 seats the crow (cornix) among the Coronis episode’s bird-speech that warns the raven. A named crow in that poem, not a generic corvid dump and not raven as the same bird.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)

    Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).

  • Metamorphoses · Ovid

    Ovid, Metamorphoses.