This relationship will appear still more evident if we notice that the rival of the god is regularly either a crow or an eagle-hawk, and that these are quite generally the totems of the phratries.
We are now in a better condition for understanding what the native means when he says that the men of the Crow phratry, for example, are crows.
Among the Haida, says Swanton, the members of the two phratries of the Eagle and the Crow "are frequently considered as avowed enemies.
It is also the eagle-hawk and the crow which have given their names to the two phratries of the Ngarigo and the Wolgal.
The Crow people are also convinced that the Snake people have a mythical serpent as ancestor, and that they owe special virtues and marvellous powers to this origin.
We have seen that normally the totem is not an individual, but a species or a variety: it is not such and such a kangaroo or crow, but the kangaroo or crowin general.
This is because the Crow is supposed to be an "associate" of the Black Snake: in other words, it is a sub-totem.
By my troath heele yeeld thecrow a pudding one of these dayes, Ile go to him, husband youle come?
By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days.
It sounded like a crow of triumph; that was the way he crowed when the bug had been a delicious one.
Then he looked at the cheese, But the crowdid not open her mouth.
In a dairy a crow Having ventured to go, Some food for her young ones to seek, Flew up in a tree, With a fine piece of cheese, Which she joyfully held in her beak.
The silly crow foolishly tries, But she scarce gave one caw, When the cheese she let fall, And the fox ran off with the prize.
She further must not see the sky, and woe betide her if she catches sight of a crow or cat.
Take the nest of a crow from a margosa tree, and bury it at the cremation ground.
In regions of the country where the crow has been almost exterminated by poison and other means, this insect has left the meadows brown and sear, while grasshoppers have partially destroyed the most valuable crops.
Moreover, the crow destroys very many field-mice and other rodents, but chief of all he is the worst enemy of the May-beetle and its larvae.
We see a crow in mischief occasionally, and the fact is laid up against him.
Who would have thought that the squire and a crow could evoke such a peroration?
It can be proved beyond a doubt that the crow is unsurpassed by any other bird in usefulness.
The blue jay belongs to the crow family, and has all the brains of his black-coated and more sedate cousins.
Even the plucked think of them with tears of filial reverence, and having renewed their plumage, clap their wings, and crow defiance to all their foes.
The Winnebagos were glad it was so, because now the Sandwiches could not crow over them.
Catertown and dinner at twelve o'clock, ten miles due south as the crow flies!
When Blacky the Crow and Sammy Jay visit a place more than once, something interesting is going on there.
Digger had been so intent on his own affairs that he hadn't noticed anything unusual, but when Old Man Coyote mentioned the matter he remembered that Blacky the Crow headed straight for the Green Forest every morning.
There was a crow sat on a stone, When he was gone, then there was none.
I pray you, do not crow before day, And your comb shall be made of the very beaten gold, And your wings of the silver so gray.
COCK-CROW Cocks crow in the morn To tell us to rise, And he who lies late Will never be wise; For early to bed And early to rise, Is the way to be healthy And wealthy and wise.
The mists on the meadow became transparent, the sky turned almost white, a magpie began to chatter in the thicket, and a crow flew through the glassy twilight, very black and heavy.
Those fellows in the town might give over scribbling; no cock would crow the louder, nor would loaves of bread get any smaller.
The driver was a sturdy, thick-set man whose remarkable personal appearance was fixed instantly and ineradicably in the mind of the beholder by an enormous moustache whose shape, size and color suggested a crow with outstretched wings.
In the deep woods the struggle to maintain and reproduce life was at its height, and the courting songs of gaily coloured birds were drowned by hawk screams and crow calls of defiance.
A crow on the fence Joined him, and a kingfisher, heading for Loon Lake, and then Belshazzar caught the infection.
Happily, however, not all the earth is meadow and subject to this annual catastrophe; and I think the whole flock took refuge in a pasture where they were safe from the hay-cutters, and had for neighbors only the cows and the crow babies.
First of the fledglings to appear were a family of crow blackbirds, four of them with their parents.
Another visitor of whom the kingbird seemed suspicious was a purple crow blackbird, who every day passed over.
We are accustomed to regard the crow as a grave and solemn personage with a serious rôle in life; and indeed life is such a constant warfare to him that I cannot see how he finds any enjoyment in it.
He plainly recognized the youthfulness of the intruder, for after a moment's study he passed on, attending to his own business, while the youngcrow stared at him in open-mouthed curiosity.
Then a crow mamma created a diversion by helping herself to an egg for her baby's breakfast, when a robin and a vireo--curious pair!
In fact, there are, emphatically, two sides to the crow question, and I take the side of the crow.
This bird and the common crow were the only ones he drove away without waiting for them to alight; and if half that is told of them be true, he had reason to do so.
I do not like to figure as "Rawhead and bloody-bones" in the nursery of even a crow baby, so I tried several times to redeem the bad name of my race.
Then the disappointed youngster cuddled up to a brother crow baby, and both lifted up their voices and lamented the emptiness of the cold, cold world.
I looked over into the pasture, and there I first saw the crow baby, nearly as big and black as his mamma, but with no tail to speak of.
In fact, he was even conscious of being in a position to crow over the other, if the other only knew it, and though he strove hard to dismiss the idea, yet the idea was there.
Mr. Rouse says: "I cannot recollect more of Old Cranny Crow than that she entices children one by one out for a walk, and steals them from their supposed mother.
Then Cranny Crow puts another pie before her; this she discovers to be just like her Katy.
Accustomed as I had become to regard all these appearances as mere automatic symptoms, I confess that I heard with pleasure the crow of a distant cock.
I believe Mr. Irving has engaged a real fowl, to crow at the right moment behind the scenes," I said.
The strangers took that which led to the Crow Hill, a huge business which was in strong hands which had been able, thanks to their energetic and fearless New England manager, Josiah H.
A Crane and a Crow had made a league on oath, that the Crane should protect the Crow against the Birds, {and} that the Crow should foretell the future, so that the Crane might be on her guard.
An pestilent Crowhad taken her seat upon a Sheep; which after carrying her a long time on her back and much against her inclination, remarked: “If you had done thus to a Dog with his sharp teeth, you would have suffered for it.
When the Crow heard this, at once she warned the Crane, who took all due precaution.
On another day, too, the Crow hearing him ask for a stone, again warned the Crane carefully to avoid the danger.
The Crow made answer: “It is not my art that deserves to be blamed; but the purposes of double-tongued people are so deceiving, who say one thing and do another.
From his perch a white-necked crow was debating in his mind as to whether a certain diminutive tortoise crawling among the stones was worth the trouble of cracking and eating, or not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
