INDEX
- Abbey, founded by birds, 269
- Adjutant Stork, stone in head of, 96
- Aetites, or eagle-stone, 96
- Albatross, raft-nest of, 76
- Alectorius, a magic stone, 95
- Alectromancy, 217
- American eagle, 36
- Ani, or Black Witch, see Jumbiebird.
- Anka, mythical bird, 198
- Arabian mythical birds, 193, 196
- Ark, messengers from the, 99
- Arthur, King, becomes a raven, 163
- Arvenus, legend of Lake, 78
- Asbestos, a bird’s skin, 195
- Augury and Auspice defined, 214
- Babes in the Wood, story, 116
- Bennu, a sun-symbol, 195
- Bestiaries described, 58
- Bird-myths, origin of, 226, 253
- Bird-of-Paradise, legends of, 63
- Bird-superstitions rare in United States, 7
- Birds, alleged hibernation of, 89
- Birds as “Openers,” 249–253
- Birds as pilots, 161
- Birds as spirits, 10, 25, 189
- Birds associated with monks and hermits, 262–271
- Birds becoming gods, 18
- Birds changing into other birds, 92
- Birds connected with Lightning, 242–253
- Birds, fabulous, explained, 202, 208, 226
- Birds, lucky and unlucky, 25
- Birds of Assyrian seals, 202
- Birds of the Bosphorus, 16
- Birds riding on bigger birds, 81
- Birds transport souls, 190
- Birds, variety of accounted for, 226–241
- Bittern, breast-light of, 79
- Blackbird, red-winged, 239
- Blackbirds blackened by Raven, 229
- Blackbirds once white, 233
- Bluebird, mountain, 23, 240
- Blue jay, legend of, 240
- Bluejay visits the Devil, 166
- Brahminy duck, sacred in Thibet, 18
- Buffon denies song to American birds, 78
- Bulbul, Persian nightingale, 48
- Butcher-bird, alleged trick of, 79
- Buzzard, turkey, features of, 227, 236, 241, 284
- Chickens as weather-prophets, 221
- Chickens used in augury, 216, 223
- Chimney swift, Josselyn’s account of, 62
- Chouans, named from owl’s cry, 187
- Cinamros, Persian myth, 205
- Cock, alectorius of, 96
- Cock, as Gaulish emblem, 44
- Cock, barnyard, a sun-bird, 218
- Cock, Christian legends of, 109, 151
- Cock, stoned on Shrove Tuesday, 123
- Cormorants, legends of, 228, 231
- Cranes carry away girl, 237
- Crane’s foot, origin, 170
- Cranes transport small birds, 83
- Cranes war with Pygmies, 94
- Crocodile-bird, legend of, 60
- Crossbill, Christian legend of, 113
- Crow, Chinese three-legged, 172
- Crow, formerly white, 233
- Crow, hooded, dread of, 165
- Crow in Ghost Dance, 176
- Crow, omens from, 213
- Crows’-feet at eyes, 170
- Crows visit the Devil, 166
- Cuckoos as rain-prophets, 223
- Cupid of the Gaels, 3
- Curassow, legend of, 170
- David beguiled by a pigeon, 259
- Deluges, birds connected with, 98–108
- Demonic birds, 52, 205
- Devil’s birds, 166
- Direction, element in divination, 8, 175, 213
- Divination by birds, 212–217;
- Dove and the Holy Grail, 137
- Dove as bird of peace, 140
- Dove, Christian legends of, 113, 139
- Dove guides Cortez’s ship, 138
- Dove instructs Pope Gregory, 133
- Dove of St. Remi, 133, 137
- Dove, revered in Islam, 135
- Dove saves Genghis Khan, 141
- Dove sent from the Ark, 101
- Dove, symbol of Holy Ghost, 133, 134, 138
- Dove, symbol of Ishtar, 127–132
- Doves at Dodona, 130
- Doves in Jewish sacrifice, 140
- Doves in Solomonic legends, 259
- Doves, prophetic, 5–9
- Eagle, double-headed, 29, 33, 52
- Eagle, emblem of St. John, 149
- Eagle, golden, or war, 24, 35
- Eagle, imperial, 30
- Eagle-lecterns, origin of, 149
- Eagle, legends of, 97
- Eagle, Mexican harpy, 38
- Eagle, myths about, 68, 73, 76
- Eagle of Lagash, 28
- Eagles, omens from, 213
- Eagle-stone, or aetites, 96
- Easter eggs, customs explained, 124
- Eggs in mosques and churches, 54
- Eskimo bird-tales, 273, 274
- Fairies traced to Morrigu, 165
- Falcon, symbolism of, 150
- Feng-whang. See Fung-whang.
- Fish-hawk, legend of, 80
- France, popular emblem of, 41–46
- Franklin compares eagle and turkey, 37
- Fung-whang, Chinese myth, 207
- Garuda, Hindoo myth, 206
- Gaul, name explained, 41
- Genghis Khan saved by owl, 186
- Ghost Dance explained, 177
- Goatsuckers, cries of dreaded, 6, 15
- Goldfinch, Christian legend of, 113
- Goose and golden eggs, 66
- Goose-bone fable, 222
- Goose, golden Capitoline, 255
- Goose growing on trees, 64
- Goose in Buddhist myth, 67
- Grebe, legend of, 240
- Green fowl, Mohammedan, 15
- Grouse, marks on ruffed, 238
- Guan, legend of, 107
- Guatemala, emblem of, 39
- Guillemots, origin of, 237
- Gulls offend Giant, 234
- Hair, superstitions about, 9
- Halcyon days, meaning of, 22
- Harpies, Sirens, etc., 193
- Hibernation of birds, 89
- Ho-ho, Japanese myth, 208
- Hoopoe, legends of, 153, 250, 261
- Hornbill, superstitions about, 16
- Hummingbird, hibernation of, 90
- Hummingbird, riding a crane, 81
- Hummingbird, voice lost, 241
- Indian poetic story, 275–279
- Jackdaw of Rheims, 157
- Jay, Canada, gives warning, 4
- Jumbie-bird, Ani, or Black Witch, 189
- Kamar, Persian myth, 206
- Karshipta, Persian myth, 206
- King, choice of by birds, 82, 206
- Kingbird, riding a hawk, 81
- Kingfisher, halcyon myth, 20, 234–239
- Kingfisher, sent from the Ark, 102
- Kiskadee, legend of, 239
- Kite, Egyptian legend of, 151
- Lapwing and Covenanters, 256
- Lark, Laverock, funereal, 115
- Legend, definition of, 254
- Lightning attributed to birds, 243–253
- Loon, origin of its cry, 279
- Lucky birds, 25
- Macaw as fire-bird, 41
- Magpie, portents by, 171
- Mexico, national emblem, 38
- Migrating birds carried by others, 81–88
- Migration to the moon, 91
- Moccasin flower legend, 6
- Monks, medieval and birds, 262–271
- Morrigu and her crows, 165
- Nightingale, myths and legends, 48, 50
- Number, important in divination, 8, 171
- Nuns of Whitby, 88
- Odin’s ravens, 150
- Omens trifled with, 257, 258
- Ornithomancy, origin of, 5
- Osage Indians, bird ancestry, 11
- Osprey, legend of, 80
- Ostrich eggs, use of, 54
- Ostrich, errors pertaining to, 54
- Ostrich plumes, symbolism, 153
- Owein’s ravens, 162
- Owl, a Baker’s daughter, 121
- Owl a monarch’s daughter, 183
- Owl, Athenian, 180
- Owl in medieval medicine, 185
- Owl once a singer, 112
- Owl once an Eskimo girl, 233
- Owl saves heroes, 186, 258
- Owls, Christian legends of, 121
- Owls, superstitions about, 181, 187, 213, 258
- Oystercatcher, why blessed, 112
- Palm, associated with phenix, 198
- Paradise-birds, 63, 64
- Peacock feathers, indicate rank, 144
- Peacock, feathers, superstitions, 148
- Peacock, saves Chinese general, 187
- Peacocks, legends of, 141–147
- Pelican, errors pertaining to, 58
- Pelican, Seri ancestor, 11
- Pelican, symbolism of, 147
- Pharaoh’s chicken, 34
- Pheasant, Argus, painted, 233
- Phenix as a Christian symbol, 196
- Phenix described, 191
- Pigeons in church feasts, 125
- Pigeons of Venice, 125
- Pigeon shrine near Yarkand, 136
- Polynesian bird-gods, 19
- Quails, Israelitish legend, 93
- Quetzal-bird, 39
- Rabbit and Easter eggs, 124
- Rain-birds described, 223
- Rara avis (swan), 46
- Raven as culture-hero, 228–234
- Raven, characteristics of, 134
- Raven, Dickens’s “Grip,” 156
- Raven dresses the birds, 228
- Raven feeds Elijah, 158
- Raven feeds hermits, 164
- Raven flag of Danes, 159
- Raven, ghostly, 164
- Raven, Mosaic view of, 158
- Raven, myths concerning, 72, 105, 248
- Raven once white, 168, 232
- Raven, portents by, 169, 173, 213
- Raven saves body of St. Vincent, 164
- Raven sent from the Ark, 100
- Raven’s Hill and Barbarossa, 163
- Ravens, Odin’s messengers, 150
- Redbreast, Christian legends of, 114
- Redbreast covers corpses, 116
- Redpoll, bringing fire, 274
- Rhea, errors concerning, 55
- Robin, American, singing, 282
- Robin, European. See Redbreast.
- Roc (Rukh), Sinbad’s discovery, 200
- Sacred birds explained, 16, 24
- Sagehen, Paiute story of, 106
- Salamander as a bird, 196
- Scapegoats among birds, 25
- Scarlet bird of Taoists, 207
- Schamir, Solomonic legend, 249
- Seal of United States, 36
- Semiramis, story of, 128
- Sentinel-birds, stories of, 254, 256
- Seven Whistlers, 13, 89
- Shrike, errors regarding, 79
- Shrove Tuesday customs, 123
- Simurgh, Persian myth, 205
- Smell, sense in birds, 75
- Snow-owl blackens raven, 232
- Souls brought by birds, 12
- Souls carried away by birds, 13, 139, 148
- Sparrow in Christian legends, 112
- Speech by birds, 3, 10, 13
- Stones possessed by birds, 95
- Stork, as a migrant, 92
- Stork, legends of, 112, 153
- Stymphalia, birds of, 192, 194
- Swallow, Eskimo origin of, 238
- Swallow in Christian legends, 112
- Swallow, omens from, 25, 213, 218
- Swallow restores blindness, 96
- Swan, black (rara avis), 47
- Swan, death song, 76
- Swan, omens from, 213
- Symplegades, legend of, 131
- Thibetan divination, 174
- Thunder-birds described, 243–248, 281
- Thunder Cape, name explained, 245
- Trochilus legend, 60
- Trogon, or quetzal-bird, 39
- Trumpeter, legends of, 107, 239
- Tulare, legend of lake, 108
- Turkey, Franklin’s preference, 37
- Turkey, Indian legend of, 106
- Vulture, baldness explained, 227, 236, 241
- Vulture, omens from, 213
- Vulture revered in Egypt, 151
- Vultures, Persian, 207
- Vulture, Turkey. See Buzzard.
- Wagtail, Ainu legend of, 103
- War-eagle, American Indian, 35
- Weathercocks explained, 151
- Weather prognostics by birds, 217, 219, 282
- Whippoorwill as a prophet, 5, 6
- Winds as birds, 203, 206, 249
- Woodpecker, Californian, 281
- Woodpecker, magical powers of, 250
- Woodpecker, redheaded, 23, 106, 235, 241
- Wren, Cherokee story of, 282
- Wren, hunting of in Ireland, 118
- Yel, culture-hero, 230