Reply: Item #1304611 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET02#
"Another folk tradition holds that [King] Arthur lives on in the form of a bird. Cervantes tells us that the English believed that their ancient hero assumed the form of a crow, and an 18th century tourist in Cornwall was rebuked for shooting a raven, which might have been Arthur. The latest testimony from Cornwall takes the bird to be a chough or a puffin" (FUNK & WAGNALLS STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY, AND LEGEND).
As for politico-religious setting of the Whorl, we have the usual multiple answer <g>:
(A) Hierax (carrion birds, black animals)
(B) Tartaros (black animals)
(C) Palustria (swamp of chough origins)
(D) All of the above
(E) All of the above, sometimes
(F) None of the above
(G) The Outsider (who restarted Oreb's ticker?)
Re: Tick, anybody else here reminded of LITTLE FUZZY by H. Beam Piper?
=mantis=
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