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The Folklore of Birds
Edward A. Armstrong
Editors
Table of Contents
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
A NOTE ON THE THUNDERBIRD CONCEPT
CHAPTER 7 NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS
CHAPTER 8 THE KING OF BIRDS
CHAPTER 9 THE WREN HUNT AND PROCESSION
ENGLAND
SCOTLAND
FRANCE
THE DEATH OF THE WREN
WALES
ISLE OF MAN
IRELAND
THE WREN HUNT AND THE FOLK PLAY IN IRELAND
EXPLANATION OF THE WREN HUNT
THE ORIGIN OF THE WREN HUNT
CHAPTER 10 FIRE-BIRDS
The Robin & the Wren
The Swallow
CHAPTER 11 SONG-BIRDS AND TOADS
Nightingale, Yellowhammer, Lark, Stonechat & Wheatear
CHAPTER 12 THE HARBINGER OF SPRING
The Cuckoo
CHAPTER 13 WINGED SOULS
SILENCE BROKEN BY A MOTHER’S SONG
THE SEVEN WHISTLERS AND THEIR KIN
CHAPTER 14 BIRD FISH
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX AND CHAPTER REFERENCES
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Part I PROPER NAMES
Part II BIRDS
Part III SUBJECTS
B&W Plates
Colour Plate
Acknowledgments
Other Works by the same Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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