Death and the Crow

aa battery · Mar 1, 2011

Went to a affluent part of town to deliver sympathy Flowers to a woman who just lost her husband. I pulled up to the door like i always do and walked up to the door. As i walked up i heard a strange sound, like a crow but not the same. I looked up and in the tree was a crow making strange sounds i never heard before. Ringing the door bell the widow answered looking like hell because of her loss. All of a sudden the crow squalled sending her in tears. She said since her husband died that crow wont leave her tree. $:-\$ At that time the crow flew down on the sidewalk and eyeballed both of us causing her to slam the door in my face. Now the Warden (my wife) educated me that Hindus and the Chinese believed the Crow comes after death and people feed them. Too weired for me. :help:

Rebel - KGC · Mar 2, 2011

CROW (bird) according to MY understanding from Native Americans (aka Indians) is simply a "bird of WARNING". A bird (little brown bird) hitting a window (according to AMERICAN early "folklore") is indicating that SOMEONE in that house is gonna "die" soon. I suspect that widow used to "feed" that CROW crumbs of bread previously, and CROW is "trained" to "make noises" for "feeding time". I have a few around here that I "feed" with crumbs of bread... Heckle, Jeckle, Bojo, Brutus, & Bad... (a BIG one!) :laughing9:

. They ARE noisy & NOSY birds... aren't they? Hindus just MAY believe her husband (RIP) may be possessing the CROW; my condolences to the widow. Tell your "Mrs." (Warden) hello from me... another FORMER Warden/Top Administrator on Duty. HA! :coffee2:

Coffee? 8) (SUNNY out in Virginia)

drewan29 · Mar 2, 2011

I used to work with a guy and his wife had passed away. well after his wife passed this crow would stay around his car all day I mean from mourning till the end of his shift. It was crazy and when he came to terms with her death the crow left.

Rebel - KGC · Aug 18, 2012

I now have TWO crows "hanging around", that I feed & have named MOJO & SHADOW; my mom just recently died (3/2012) & my dad died in 2004. I don't get the "sense" of mom & dad, tho.

woof! · Aug 18, 2012

Crows are very intelligent birds, are highly social, and through a long history of interaction with human beings they have evolved to recognize individual human beings and to figure out which ones are friendly to crows and which ones are nasties. And they tell their buddies which humans are friendly and which ones aren't, crows are quite the gossipers.

I regard it as quite likely that crows pay more attention to individual humans than humans do to individual crows; and that when a human dies, crows may react in their own peculiar ways with either joy or sorrow and may even attempt to communicate this to other humans. This is a matter on which Amerind traditions can probably provide some reliable information.

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Ravens are closely related to crows and exhibit many of the same behaviors, although they're not quite as sociable as crows. When I lived in Prescott we had ravens, didn't often see crows, I suppose the ravens chased them away. They mostly looked the same to me but I learned to recognize several individuals by their voices. And therein lurks a funny story.

One morning I heard a lot of dove cooing in my neighbor's elm tree, but couldn't see the birds through the foliage. (It caught my attention because although we had doves in the neighborhood, the time and place seemed wrong, and the bird conversation itself seemed unusual.) I walked around for a while quietly until I finally got the birds in sight. It was two ravens courting in dove language.

--Dave J.

Rebel - KGC · Aug 19, 2012

ALAS! What would EAP do? (WWEAPD?)

Kentucky Kache · Aug 19, 2012

woof! said:
Crows are very intelligent birds, are highly social, and through a long history of interaction with human beings they have evolved to recognize individual human beings and to figure out which ones are friendly to crows and which ones are nasties. And they tell their buddies which humans are friendly and which ones aren't, crows are quite the gossipers.

I regard it as quite likely that crows pay more attention to individual humans than humans do to individual crows; and that when a human dies, crows may react in their own peculiar ways with either joy or sorrow and may even attempt to communicate this to other humans. This is a matter on which Amerind traditions can probably provide some reliable information.

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Ravens are closely related to crows and exhibit many of the same behaviors, although they're not quite as sociable as crows. When I lived in Prescott we had ravens, didn't often see crows, I suppose the ravens chased them away. They mostly looked the same to me but I learned to recognize several individuals by their voices. And therein lurks a funny story.

One morning I heard a lot of dove cooing in my neighbor's elm tree, but couldn't see the birds through the foliage. (It caught my attention because although we had doves in the neighborhood, the time and place seemed wrong, and the bird conversation itself seemed unusual.) I walked around for a while quietly until I finally got the birds in sight. It was two ravens courting in dove language.

--Dave J.

Crows impersonating doves. That makes me miss the religion board.

I wonder if crows can sense people's sorrow, and maybe that's the reason they hang around people who have lost a loved one. I know they can sense a natural desaster and get out of the area before it strikes.