Tag: crow

New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of the twenty-first century. This observation links America’s segregated past to its nominally desegregated present: an...

This post begins the cultural mythology of ancient Celtic peoples who had relationships with many spirits, often worshipped. The Roman occupations of those lands brought a different reality, in which the Druids were persecuted, who were often the priesthood who served the Tribes. Celtic peoples were...

Japan’s got crows. And ravens (we use the same word for both: “karasu”). Lots of ’em. They’re BIG. Much bigger than the ones I’m used to in Toronto. And smart, and sometimes mean. As we shall see, they’ve played a prominent and vexing role in the daily li...