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Ravens and Crows
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Posted by: Makarios on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 08:00 AM
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By MetallicUrsine
Crows and Ravens are the creatures of the otherworld, and are also portents of omens, magic, witchcraft, death, regeneration, and prophecy. And in truth, anything black was considered a creature of the devil, such as black dogs (the howling of a dog was the announcement of death, and dogs have had a long deep association with death and the otherworld) , black cats (up until the 19th century crows or ravens were seen as witches in disguise, a bad omen as ill-wished as the crow in seeing or crossing paths with like a black cat; and as well as up to 1922 in Somerset the black cat was considered to be a creature of the devil, but to own one was to have its owner looked upon as having a lucky talisman – showing the duality of the folklore) , black horses, and also black birds of most types, such as magpies. Two crows seen was called a “corbie coupling, ” from the Latin word for crow (coracicus, corvinus) . Its powers of omens stopped inaugurations of Archbishops (Such as with Adamson of St. Andrews in 1586 by a man named David Ferguson saying the crow was cawing “Corrupt!” in portent to the intended Archbishop) to battles, to births, peace, etc. And later on, it is still linked to agriculture, as we have the scarecrows, and the folk art of the crow always with the harvest, and even in modern France there is a festival dedicated to this bird in the light of agriculture. And anyone who’s lived with crows, knows them as more than mere birds, some call them “feathered humans” in their ability to speak, and bond with humans.
Travelers would look to see a raven to foretell a fruitful journey, or one of ill-luck or death. In 40 B.C. Virgil writes in his Eclogue IX “If a timely raven on my left hand had not warned me at all costs to cut short this last dispute, neither your friend Moeris nor Menacles would be alive today.” As well as folkloric sayings of “As a crow flies” in relation to describing distance and time relations.
Read the complete article: The Witching Hour Approaches
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Black cats bring you love and good luck
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 01:00 PM
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 By Bev Greco
As I have relayed to you in previous articles, our shelter animals at the Cumberland County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals also are suffering the wintertime blues.
One group that we have been especially worried about is our black cats. In general, black cats are the least likely to be adopted. With most animal shelters filled to the brim with cats, the more colorful felines seem to attract much more attention. For whatever reason, these onyx-colored gems get passed over time and time again.
In America, black cats are associated with Halloween, bad luck and witches. Yet, in other cultures and seafaring lore, they are revered as quite the opposite. Sea captains kept them to ensure safe voyages. The Brits and the Scots view them as a good omen and a symbol of prosperity.
Read the complete article: The Daily Journal
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Pets and people buried together
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 01:00 PM
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 By Rose Hamada
Like many people, widow Penny Lally plans to be buried alongside her family. But in her case, that includes a menagerie of family pets. Her husband, John, who died of cancer three years ago at the age of 64, is already buried with their horse Super Sam, Blot the cat, Muppet the dog, and even Brian the bird.
"I often tell people that John has a canary singing in his ear, a cat purring at his feet, a dog at his side and a horse to ride on when he likes," Lally said. "I know some people might find this strange, but I loved my pets and wanted them all to be close to me and my husband and to each other."
Lally, 66, runs a pet crematorium and woodland burial place in Penwith, Cornwall, in southwestern England. She has buried more than 30 owners alongside their animals and has over 100 more plots reserved for pets and their owners, she said.
Read the complete article: CNN UK News
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Six Creepy Animal Behaviors That Science Can't Explain
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Posted by: Makarios on Monday, January 18, 2010 - 12:00 PM
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<snip> #6.Animal Suicides
One of the major things that separate humans from animals is that most lower life forms have an intense will to live. Unless they are defending their babies or food, most animals will prefer to run off than fight, because life is precious. Plus, given the fact that most don't really appear to be all that self aware, the likelihood of goth hamsters and emo pigeons seems pretty thin.
Then why do some animals just up and decide to off themselves sometimes? We've already shown you a bridge that seems to drive dogs into a suicidal frenzy, but that kind of thing doesn't happen often, does it? Well, recently (and by recently we mean 2009) there were a couple of major animal suicides; in Switzerland, 28 cows decided to leap off a cliff over the course of three days, and in California, dozens of monstrous squids beached themselves.
And lets not forget Jatinga, India, where hundreds of birds from several species dive into the ground to kill themselves every year.
Read the complete article: Cracked
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Owls: kings of the night
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 11:00 AM
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 By GARY CLARK
If ever an owl could stare you down with a haunting look, it would be the barred owl that occupies woodlands from eastern to central Texas. The bird's big, round, dark eyes set against a large oval head and a forebodingly gray-brown facial disk can look like the hollowed-out sockets in a skull. Its brawny body draped in a dull-brown cloak with splotches of white and with dark bars like black scarves running across its throat and down its pale belly would make even Dracula cower.
“Strix” in the barred owl's scientific name, Strix varia, while deriving from Latin and Greek meaning an owl, also has ancient mythological references to witches who transformed themselves into shrieking, blood-sucking owls.
Read the complete article: Houston Chronicle
Note: ...king??? 'Owl medicine' is 'female, psychopomp, night-eagle, messenger' etc...
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From crickets to whales, animal calls have something in common
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Posted by: Makarios on Friday, January 15, 2010 - 02:00 PM
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Scientists who compare insect chirps with ape calls may look like they are mixing aphids and orangutans, but researchers have found common denominators in the calls of hundreds of species of insects, birds, fish, frogs, lizards and mammals that can be predicted with simple mathematical models.
Compiling data from nearly 500 species, scientists with the University of Florida and Oklahoma State University have found the calls of crickets, whales and a host of other creatures are ultimately controlled by their metabolic rates — in other words, their uptake and use of energy.
"Very few people have compared cricket chirps to codfish sounds to the sounds made by whales and monkeys to see if there were commonalities in the key features of acoustic signals, including the frequency, power and duration of signals," said James Gillooly, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of biology at UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a member of the UF Genetics Institute. "Our results indicate that, for all species, basic features of acoustic communication are primarily controlled by individual metabolism, which in turn varies predictably with body size and temperature. So, when the calls are adjusted for an animal's size and temperature, they even sound alike."
Read the complete article: Biology News Net
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Love Your Familiar: Cats
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Posted by: Makarios on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 04:00 PM
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By Jamie Freeman
Ah, the iconic witches familiar–the cat! Google “witches familiar” in the image search engine, and you see the vast majority of the pictures are of people’s cats. Like us, the cat is nocturnal, and spends her evenings under the light of the moon. Cats can take care of themselves and are very independent–at least, that’s what we’ve been taught to believe. A recent bunch of surveys show that cats are more popular than dogs. And to Witches, they hold a special place in our hearts because we have been associated with them for so long.
A familiar is a creature who works with the witch while she does her work. In traditional English medieval witchcraft, the familiar was a spy and servant, but they could also help with divination, and be a companion much like a roommate. These days, we avoid forcing our animals into servitude, but familiars still lend the same assistance today.
How to know if your pet is a familiar:
o You can’t keep them off your altars and shrines around the house. You are best off just making room for them, rather than trying to keep them off these elevated places.
o When you are working in circle, they enjoy walking in and out of it, or sitting just inside or beyond the circle. I suspect they like the energy, but they also are trying to protect you. I was taught that animal and small children can pass through the circle without cutting it, because they are “between the worlds” already.
o You talk to her and she talks back. Like, in your head.
o Your cat appears in your dreams.
o Your cat likes to “help” with tarot and divination readings. Usually by sitting in the middle of what you are doing.
Read the complete article: Witchful Thinking
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Tiger, lion and bear form unusual friendship
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Posted by: Makarios on Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 07:00 AM
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Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old.
They had been kept as status symbol pets by the drug barons.
Delivered to the Noah's Ark animal rescue centre in Locust Grove, Georgia, the decision was made to keep the youngsters together.
"We could have separated them, but since they came as a kind of family, the zoo decided to keep them together," said Diane Smith, assistant director of the Noah's Ark zoo. "To our knowledge, this is the only place where you'll find this combination of animals together, they are our BLT, (bear, lion and tiger).
Read the complete article: The Telegraph
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A Quick Thought on Critters
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Posted by: Makarios on Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 04:00 PM
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<snip> One of the things that I tell people curious about totemism is that one of the best ways to get to know totems is to study their natural history and biology, to get to know the physical animals attached to the totems. What I see all too often is a romanticization of animals, and a lack of understanding of actual animal behavior. For instance, there’s the oft-related myth that non-human animals never injure or kill another except in self-defense or for food. Yet this ignores a host of documented, and sometimes common, animal behaviors. Male lions taking over a new pride will kill the young of their predecessors so they can breed with the lionesses. Male dolphins rape females. Foxes and other canine/vulpine predators have been known to kill an entire flock of chickens (or, in the case of larger predators, sheep), much more than they can eat and cache.
Read the complete article: Therioshamanism
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Animal shelter has own 'Black Friday' special
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 11:00 AM
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 By MIKE DANAHEY
For holiday shoppers, the Friday after Thanksgiving typically is a bargain-hunter's paradise. And this year, even Anderson Animal Shelter is getting in on the act.
This Friday, the shelter is offering an adoption special on black cats. All black cats and kittens will have a special adoption fee of $50 instead of the usual $155. The adoption fee includes the spay/neuter, microchip, all vaccinations up to adoption, free vet visit, FIV/FeLV test, a free bag of food and 30 days of free pet insurance.
"About 40 percent of the cats in our shelter are black," director of operations Michelle Groeper said. On one hand, the promotion is a play on the day after Thanksgiving being commonly referred to as "Black Friday" because all those deals and specials are intended to bring retailers into the black ink on the ledger, as the sales results that day can mean they will make a profit for the year. On the other, the effort is intended to help the shelter find a home for a big portion of its orphaned felines.
Read the complete article: Courier News
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Holiday puts black cats in spotlight
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 01:00 PM
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 by Margie Hyslop
Black cats mean bad luck. That superstition, or its variants, holds sway in some cultures, especially around Halloween. In other places, beliefs are just the opposite.
Scots have welcomed a strange black cat at the door as a harbinger of prosperity, not a spooky symbol. Some English seafaring families have kept black cats on the notion that doing so ensured that sailors and fishermen would return home safely. And Germans have viewed a black cat crossing from left to right as a good omen — unlike one crossing from right to left. But in many American communities, including Montgomery County, the real bad luck associated with black cats is in the difficulty those felines have finding a home. An inordinate number of homeless cats are black or predominantly black, say animal shelter managers.
Read the complete article: The Gazette
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Bird Feared Extinct Rediscovered
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Posted by: Makarios on Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 09:00 AM
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Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged from hiding on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part to a Michigan State University scientist.
The Banggai crow was believed by many to be extinct until Indonesian biologists finally secured two new specimens on Peleng Island in 2007. Pamela Rasmussen, a Michigan State University assistant professor of zoology and renowned species sleuth, provided conclusive verification. An ornithologist who specializes on the birds of southern Asia, Rasmussen studied the two century-old specimens known as Corvus unicolor in New York's American Museum of Natural History. She compared them to the new crow specimens in Indonesia's national museum, to lay to rest lingering speculation that they were merely a subspecies of a different crow. The more common slender-billed crow, Corvus enca, also is found in the Banggai Islands, and likewise is all black.
Read the complete article: Michigan State University News
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Black Cat Superstitions and Omens
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Posted by: Copperwoman on Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 12:30 PM
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 by Amy Zerello
Feline Fallacies: Long ago, visitors to English homes were expected to greet the family cat with a kiss to bring good luck. And believe it or not, in the 16th century, white cats were a sign of bad luck, unlike today's idea about their midnight-cloaked counterparts.
More Cat Fancies: In Scotland, if a black cat happened to appear on the doorstep, the family believed their wealth would profit.
In Italy, fisherman's wives kept company with black cats to prevent disasters at sea.
Some folks thought a cat's sneeze forecasted rain, while others believed any unusually playful behavior signaled a storm was brewing.
Read the complete article: Readers Digest
Note: ...October is 'adopt a black cat month'. LOL!
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A woman in Pennsylvania is facing animal cruelty charges for marketing "gothic kittens" with ear and neck piercings. Holly Crawford, a 35-year-old dog groomer, has gone on trial in the northern Pennsylvanian town of Wilkes-Barre. Prosecutors say she inflicted pain on the cats to make money. Defence lawyers for Miss Crawford say she that didn't act maliciously. Her home outside Wilkes-Barre was raided in December 2008 after animal cruelty investigators received a tip that she was marketing the animals online for hundreds of dollars.
By Alastair Jamieson
By Richard Alleyne
