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Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore
Ernest Ingersoll
Why does the eagle crown national flags, and how did people explain migration before science could? Ernest Ingersoll's tour through bird folklore answers with centuries of legend: birds as emblems of empire, the myths spun around their autumn disappearances, the fables that named them. A treasury of story and superstition. For anyone who loves where natural history meets old tales.
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20 chapters
- 1BIRDS IN LEGEND FABLE AND FOLKLORE
- 2CONTENTS
- 3CHAPTER I A CHAT WITH THE INTENDING READER
- 4CHAPTER II BIRDS AS NATIONAL EMBLEMS
- 5CHAPTER III AN ORNITHOLOGICAL COMEDY OF ERRORS
- 6CHAPTER IV THE FOLKLORE OF BIRD MIGRATION
- 7CHAPTER V NOAH’S MESSENGERS
- 8CHAPTER VI BIRDS IN CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND FESTIVAL
- 9CHAPTER VII BIRDS AS SYMBOLS AND BADGES
- 10CHAPTER VIII BLACK FEATHERS MAKE BLACK BIRDS
- 11CHAPTER IX THE FAMILIAR OF WITCHES
- 12CHAPTER X A FLOCK OF FABULOUS FOWLS
- 13CHAPTER XI FROM ANCIENT AUGURIES TO MODERN RAINBIRDS
- 14CHAPTER XII A PRIMITIVE VIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
- 15CHAPTER XIII BIRDS AND THE LIGHTNING
- 16CHAPTER XIV LEGENDS IN A HISTORICAL SETTING
- 17CHAPTER XV SOME PRETTY INDIAN STORIES
- 18LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO
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