Raven ghosts

[wolfinthewood]

There are raven ghosts, great black bundles of feathers, for ever in the forest, night-hunting in famine for prey, emitting a last feeble croak at the blush of dawn, and then all at once invisible.

— ‘Celtic superstition’

cited by John Wilson (1785–1854)

in Recreations of Christopher North (1842)


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[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

This is very possibly the Gothest thing ever. Do not, do not let any Goth bands see this post or we'll be hearing songs entitled Raven Ghosts from now till Doomsday.