Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Editors

EDITORS’ PREFACE

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

CHAPTER 1
THE PREHISTORIC BACKGROUND TO BIRD FOLKLORE

CHAPTER 2
THE MICHAELMAS GOOSE

CHAPTER 3
BIRD-MAIDENS

CHAPTER 4
THE RAIN-GOOSE

CHAPTER 5
THE BIRD OF DOOM AND DELUGE

CHAPTER 6
THE THUNDERBIRD

CHAPTER 7
NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS

CHAPTER 8
THE KING OF BIRDS

CHAPTER 9
THE WREN HUNT AND PROCESSION

CHAPTER 10
FIRE-BIRDS

CHAPTER 11
SONG-BIRDS AND TOADS

CHAPTER 12
THE HARBINGER OF SPRING

CHAPTER 13
WINGED SOULS

CHAPTER 14
BIRD FISH

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX AND CHAPTER REFERENCES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

B&W Plates

Colour Plate

Acknowledgments

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