Birds in Legend Fable and Folklore
by Ernest Ingersoll
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
- Title
- Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
- Subject
- Birds -- Miscellanea
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 59598
- Release Date
- May 25, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BIRDS IN LEGEND FABLE AND FOLKLORE
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.CHAPTER I A CHAT WITH THE INTENDING READER
- 4.CHAPTER II BIRDS AS NATIONAL EMBLEMS
- 5.CHAPTER III AN ORNITHOLOGICAL COMEDY OF ERRORS
- 6.CHAPTER IV THE FOLKLORE OF BIRD MIGRATION
- 7.CHAPTER V NOAH’S MESSENGERS
- 8.CHAPTER VI BIRDS IN CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND FESTIVAL
- 9.CHAPTER VII BIRDS AS SYMBOLS AND BADGES
- 10.CHAPTER VIII BLACK FEATHERS MAKE BLACK BIRDS
- 11.CHAPTER IX THE FAMILIAR OF WITCHES
- 12.CHAPTER X A FLOCK OF FABULOUS FOWLS
- 13.CHAPTER XI FROM ANCIENT AUGURIES TO MODERN RAINBIRDS
- 14.CHAPTER XII A PRIMITIVE VIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
- 15.CHAPTER XIII BIRDS AND THE LIGHTNING
- 16.CHAPTER XIV LEGENDS IN A HISTORICAL SETTING
- 17.CHAPTER XV SOME PRETTY INDIAN STORIES
- 18.LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO
- 19.INDEX
- 20.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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