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FAIRIES, FOLKLORE AND FORTEANA

CORVID COURTS

I wrote last month about the way that rooks are supposed to abandon rookeries before the death of the human owner (). Another chapter in corvid forteana is the notion of the ‘court’. A human witness watches as a group of corvids (usually rooks or crows)

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