This most unusual item is a preserved and dried English Carrion Crow heart and a few glossy crow feathers.

The heart and feathers have been completely air dried and are free of odour and ready for use in many projects. The heart is approximately 3/4 inch (2cm) long and the feathers vary from 3 to 6 inches in length.

• Crows have been used for the purpose of divination since the time of ancient Rome.
• Finding a dead crow on the road is good luck.
• Crows in a church yard are bad luck.
• A single crow over a house meant bad news, and often foretold a death within. "A crow on the thatch, soon death lifts the latch."
• It was unlucky in Wales to have a crow cross your path. However, if two crows crossed your path, the luck was reversed. "Two crows I see, good luck to me" .
• In New England, however, to see two crows flying together from the left was bad luck.
• When crows were quiet during their midsummer's molt, some European peasants believed that it was because they were preparing to go to the Devil to pay tribute with their black feathers.
• Often, two crows would be released together during a wedding celebration. If the two flew away together, the couple could look forward to a long life together. If the pair separated, the couple might expect to be soon parted.
• In Somerset (West Country of England) locals used to carry an onion with them for protection from magpies or crows.
• The French had a saying that evil priests became crows, and bad nuns became magpies.
• The Greeks said "Go to the Crows" the same way we would say "Go to Hell."
• The Romans used the expression "To pierce a Crow's eye" in relation to something that was almost impossible to do.
• An Irish expression, "You'll follow the Crows for it" meant that a person would miss something after it was gone.
• The expression, "I have a bone to pick with you" used to be " I have a crow to pick with you".

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