Dubh_Sidhe's Faerie Garden

Faerie

The Faerie's Workshop

The faeries have been working very hard--well, faeries ALWAYS work very hard, like their cousins, the elves. Remandy and her work troup have come up with something special for their feathered friends:

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Avian Appetizers!

rice cakes
peanut butter
millet
banana chips
coconut
popcorn
blueberries, dried papaya, apples, apricots, raspberries, green grapes
cranberries

Mix some milet with peanut butter. Spread this mixture onto both sides of a rice cake. Press pieces of above into the mixture. Hang on a tree branch for the birds to enjoy.

During the night the Fae also made garlands of snackables using a blunt tapestry needles and a string of raffia. Onto this they put dried fruit and peanuts in the shell.

Chicadees love canapies of yellow cheese put in a green grape.
Woodpeckers favor unsalted peanuts and multi grain cereal
Mockingbirds and Thrushes will eat banana chips and cranberries all day long!

Remandy's favorite morning greeting is this: "If you could study every feather of any one bird for a year, you would never cease to be amazed. Birds are but a hint of what heaven must be like!"

Birds protected by superstition:

The Chough--was protected in Cornwall because the soul of King Authur was fabled to have migrated into him.

The Falcon--was held sacred by the Egyptians because it was the form assumed by Ra and Horus.

The Ibis--was also held sacred by them because the god Thoth escaped from the pursuit of Typhoon disguised as an Ibis.

Stormy Petrels, or Mother Cary's Chickens, are protected by sailors from a superstition that they are the living embodiment of the souls of dead mariners.

The Robin is protected because of Christian tradition and nusery legend. Christian tradition says that when the Lord Jesus was on His way to Calvary, a robin picked a thorn out of his crown, and the blood which issued from the would falling on the bird dyed its breast red.

The Stork--is held sacred in Sweden, from the legend that it flew round the cross crying, "Styrka, Styrka!" (Strengthen, Strengthen!) when Jesus was crucified. It is also believed that a stork will kill a snake on sight.

Swans--are protected in Ireland from the legend of the Fionnuala (daughter of Lir) who was metamorphosed into a swan and condemned to wander the waters until the advent of Christianity. Moore wrote a poem on the subject.

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