Skeptic Psychic: Hello! How's everything going? And welcome once again to the skeptic side kick? Well, we kinda delve into a lot of the Miss Fairy tales
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Skeptic Psychic: with me, is always the smart, talented Mercy thinks she's she's sexy. My sister Kim Rodriguez.
Kim Rodriguez: hey? How's it going?
Skeptic Psychic: All right? How about yourself
Kim Rodriguez: doing pretty good? I had a very interesting
Kim Rodriguez: experience the other day. Yes, Mercy and I went out to eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant.
Kim Rodriguez: Excuse Me Mexican restaurant.
Kim Rodriguez: and as we were there waiting for our food. I noticed this couple walked in. It was, you know, a man and a woman, and
Kim Rodriguez: the guy looked very much native American not in his dress or his attire, but just you know his features. He appeared like he would be native American, and I was like, Oh, that's interesting.
Kim Rodriguez: Well, when the waitress brought our food I noticed that this gentleman was talking to the hostess.
Kim Rodriguez: and I saw like it almost looked like a smoke. and it just kind of like came off of the gentleman, and it lingered in the air after he walked off.
Kim Rodriguez: and my first thought was, Oh, well, he just came out from Smoke here like he was smoking a cigarette. But this is a no smoking restaurant, so he couldn't have been smoking restaurant, so that I was like, Oh, my gosh! Is the restaurant on fire!
But the smoke just kind of dissipated. So it was like, no, it's not on fire either.
Kim Rodriguez: so it almost makes me wonder if maybe there was like a spirit lingering in the restaurant.
Kim Rodriguez: That either knew this guy or came in with this guy and it just kinda like I was able to see it in smoke form. I talked to one of my friends who's a psychic medium. And she did say, like her mother, see spirits in in a smoke form like that. So, yeah, that was very interesting, very, very odd situation.
Kim Rodriguez: But I just wanted to share that, and, you know, get people's thoughts and opinions on it. What are your thoughts?
Skeptic Psychic: Who knows? Maybe you saw something?
Kim Rodriguez: Well, it does run in our family. But I tried to think of all the rational things that could be, and like I said it couldn't be cigarette smoke, because there's no smoking
Skeptic Psychic: It was far enough away from the kitchen that it wasn't coming from the kitchen.
Kim Rodriguez: and so I don't know. It's just very, very odd.
Skeptic Psychic: I don't know, either.
Kim Rodriguez: So tonight we are continuing our conversation on sacred birds.
Skeptic Psychic: I hope you all were at the edge of your seats waiting after last week's fabulous episode.
Kim Rodriguez: the sacred birds are Fabu.
Skeptic Psychic: Yeah.
Kim Rodriguez: okay.
Kim Rodriguez: so like.
Kim Rodriguez: sorry. Why don't we kick it off?
Skeptic Psychic: I was gonna kick it off. But no, I changed my mind. Oh, come on, this is what the people are here for. maybe.
Kim Rodriguez: Well, then, if we're not going to talk about that, what are we going to talk about?
Skeptic Psychic: I just
Skeptic Psychic: just talk about me. Why not talk about me, Toby Keith? Let's talk about birds. Alright. The Greeks believe that all crows were once white.
Skeptic Psychic: that they were cursed with the darkness after a crow opposed to God.
Skeptic Psychic: Apollo, to tell him his human
Skeptic Psychic: is, you may know.
Skeptic Psychic: lover, a Thessalonian princess named
Skeptic Psychic: Cornelia.
Kim Rodriguez: No, I know Coronius Coronas.
Skeptic Psychic: who was pregnant with Apollo's child.
Skeptic Psychic: had become enabled by a man named E. Isithia.
Skeptic Psychic: Apollos. Texas. Okay. and anger? Demanded his sister Artemis. Stay slay the Princess. A lot of people actually died, thanks to the plague ridden arrows that Artemis rang down the
Skeptic Psychic: or Apollo in anger. Dark in the Apollo. also I
Skeptic Psychic: the fit, darken the feathers of the Coronas. He did, however, at least bear the child. Some stories claim that he recovered the child from his faithless lover.
Skeptic Psychic: swoom as it was thrown onto the fire, and then handed the child over to Chyron to raise, though other tales, insisted Hermes, who actually rescued the unborn child.
Skeptic Psychic: Coronas was eventually set apart at the Constellation Corvus.
Kim Rodriguez: Now corvids are often tied 2 stories of mourning.
Kim Rodriguez: the thought of early Europeans coming to dislike them and to hearken them back to root infestations that were prevalent across Europe, Asia, and Russia.
Kim Rodriguez: It's a cycle that I'm sorry. It's a cycle of life that some species are unaffected by a disease or find favourable locations that allow them to boom and grow.
Kim Rodriguez: Though nature typically holds these in balance. Rooks, however. are thought to be the reason that Nat Crap legends came into being.
Kim Rodriguez: Try saying that 5 times.
Kim Rodriguez: That's crap! That's crap, snatch, crap, natch, crep, nap, scrap!
Kim Rodriguez: About the time of the stories that came to life. There were a route a rook, infestation.
Kim Rodriguez: and scavengers with inky black feathers
Kim Rodriguez: began being talked about as the flocks were growing.
Kim Rodriguez: The farmers were upset, that they were devouring the seeds, and you know they were just as bad as the carry-ons.
Kim Rodriguez: and the Talpho, who looked at the mass of flocks loudly calling as they flew overhead in the dark cloud. No, I can attest to how annoying that is because we do have.
Kim Rodriguez: They're not.
Kim Rodriguez: They're a type of blackbird, but they're not crows. However they are. I think they might be related to the pro family.
Kim Rodriguez: I'll have to look up at the name of those.
Kim Rodriguez: No? Well, that's see. I think that's the English name for it, but they have a different name in Spanish. I just have to look up what it is. and when these birds.
Kim Rodriguez: In the winter they come by the masses, and it it looks like a scene from the birds. I mean, they are just everywhere, and they're so loud and so annoying what? They're squawking.
Kim Rodriguez: So yeah, I can understand how annoying the they must have been, you know, in Europe at this time.
Skeptic Psychic: Right. The Ned Crap.
Skeptic Psychic: or night raping is Eurasian myth that variants can be found around the world. There are stories to the positive and negative surroundings.
Skeptic Psychic: These Covid and the night rate.
Skeptic Psychic: Let's hit the negative negatives first. The night Raven, as depicted in house mythology. Oh, Norse mythology has simply applied sockets for eyes, and if you look into them it will cause death.
Skeptic Psychic: Its wings are filled with hosts in which the illness and disease fall from the spot. If you spot them. Europeans believe that. It leaves the hiding places at night in order to hunt for food.
Skeptic Psychic: Any children who seize the bird
Skeptic Psychic: are so abducted and carried off to their nest. where they are necessarily devoured. First their limbs are pulled off and eaten
Skeptic Psychic: while they're still alive. only to die.
Skeptic Psychic: This one's open, the bird
Skeptic Psychic: reaches in and eats their heart in front of them.
Skeptic Psychic: Some stories have mentioned the nightmares fuel by saying that instead.
Skeptic Psychic: just
Skeptic Psychic: And said that the birds puts the children into a bag and carries them away. There's a virgin of an angry night raven in Germany
Skeptic Psychic: that doesn't abduct children, but rather crows loudly and beats its wings about until fussy children are frozen in terror and unable to make a move.
Skeptic Psychic: There is, however, an Australian version known as the good knight Gravin. who enters children's bedroom and gently sings them to sleep. Sheep.
Skeptic Psychic: sheep!
Skeptic Psychic: I can see your eyes getting heavier, heavier.
Skeptic Psychic: I am an Australian. Good night, Raven.
Kim Rodriguez: Wonderful music! I will sing to you, cause I am a children of the night.
Kim Rodriguez: I am still trying to find that the name of that bird. But in the meantime the Russians do have tales of
Kim Rodriguez: volcanos. which is a creature that possesses the body of a bird and the head of a woman. Now this does sound familiar to tales of the siren and the harpy.
Kim Rodriguez: This you know, the siren can be sort of the alter ego of us
Kim Rodriguez: Al Sano's, or I'm sorry. Elkano's. and it is not a destructive force that lures me into their jam.
Kim Rodriguez: She does sing enchanted melodies.
Kim Rodriguez: However, her voice instead causes those to hear it, to let go of their world whirl
Kim Rodriguez: worldly worries.
Kim Rodriguez: and they want nothing more of their lives.
Kim Rodriguez: Now this could still sounds horrific to some. I mean, what would life be like if we never wanted anything?
Kim Rodriguez: However, she is considered a creature of good luck. and this is also a symbol of harmony and peace.
Kim Rodriguez: and only happy people are able to hear it.
Kim Rodriguez: The iconost rules over the day. while the siren and her dark persona are rulers of the night.
Kim Rodriguez: The occanost has a voice of danger warning.
Skeptic Psychic: The Romans believed in a snowy white bird called Calais. I think the siren says it. Her voice is a danger warning. I'm not sure.
Kim Rodriguez: Okay, I apologize for that.
Kim Rodriguez: but I guess yeah. The siren would be a danger warning because they're the ones who lure you to your death.
Kim Rodriguez: But I digress.
Kim Rodriguez: The Romans believed in a snowy bird called Calladrius.
Kim Rodriguez: and it's said to live in the home of the king.
Kim Rodriguez: There are 2 legends about this bird.
Kim Rodriguez: The first is that the Caladrius had the ability to to absorb illness from a sick person.
Kim Rodriguez: as the bird would draw the disease away as it flew away with it.
Kim Rodriguez: and the second does not mention the birth healing ability. but rather that she perches on your bed and looks over you.
Kim Rodriguez: And you would live.
Kim Rodriguez: So basically, this bird comes into your home, sees you laying in bed sick, the bird flies away, and you're alive.
Kim Rodriguez: Praise the gods!
Skeptic Psychic: Yes. But however, what happens when it doesn't look at you
Kim Rodriguez: if she looks away?
Skeptic Psychic: Yeah.
Skeptic Psychic: alright. So Arabian. This contained the tails of a huge bird creature called the rock, and it doesn't smell what is cooking.
Skeptic Psychic: She has appeared in tales of Sin Bed, the sailor from the Caribbean Knights
Skeptic Psychic: Collection, and Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer, claims an appearance of beggars
Skeptic Psychic: back.
Skeptic Psychic: Did it? Beggar's belief, saying.
Skeptic Psychic: it is for the world like an eagle. but misled of enormous side.
Skeptic Psychic: as big, in fact, that the quills would wear 12 traces long and thick in proportion
Skeptic Psychic: as it is strong, it will seize an elephant with its talons, and carry him high into the air and drop him so that it smashed to pieces.
Skeptic Psychic: Having killed him, the bird would swoop down and the
Skeptic Psychic: on him and eat at his leisure.
Skeptic Psychic: Given that elephants depending on the genus can weigh between 8,000 to 16,000 pounds. So that's about half a ton to a 10 and a half
Skeptic Psychic: that one. Me's insanely strong. Bird illustrates over the ages, depicting that the elephant, looking as small as a mouse.
Skeptic Psychic: would when compared to a bald eagle. Paulo
Skeptic Psychic: Polo
Skeptic Psychic: would go on to say to claim that the rocks flew from the southern region up to Madame Gascar.
Skeptic Psychic: and that the great Asians Khan has sent messengers to Madagascar to fetch him one for the birds feathers.
Skeptic Psychic: It is often revered. Bird, and many have offshoot from the magnet guest, gar, Larry Bird.
Skeptic Psychic: namely, the
Skeptic Psychic: elephant bird. This bird has numerous sightings from 1420 to 60. 1668,
Skeptic Psychic: when sailors would pass into the Cape of Good Hope Fund, and not only this huge but but flightless bird itself, but the enormous eggs it would lay.
Skeptic Psychic: Europeans traveling to Madagascar in the 18 hundreds, retrieved eggs and broke the shells which would later scientists were able to monitor and confirm the beginning of the elephant
Skeptic Psychic: bird.
Skeptic Psychic: Madagascar, however, has had a long camp claimed in host, not only to the giant rock, but giant lemurs and pygmy hippos.
Skeptic Psychic: There has been fossil foul in the ice, however. the bargain.
Skeptic Psychic: They belong to the new extinct Madagascari crowned eagle.
Skeptic Psychic: It was not the same species as the elephant bird, however, this smaller it bird, white
Skeptic Psychic: while able to fly and become an apex predator. was about the size of a modern golden eagle. Definitely large creature, however, as far as small, decided to have the eagle in the traces of a rock.
Kim Rodriguez: Hmm. Interesting.
Kim Rodriguez: Now the rock has also been thought to be mistaken for its African ostrich.
Kim Rodriguez: The adult ostrich is unable to fly.
Kim Rodriguez: and it is thought to perhaps been confused as a chick for a much larger species of bird.
Kim Rodriguez: Yes, the ostrich looks nothing like an eagle. but odds were. No one was seeing these creatures up close as ostriches can be extremely dangerous on their own.
Kim Rodriguez: I don't see still, how they could.
Kim Rodriguez: A ostrich for an eagle even far away, that just that doesn't make sense.
Kim Rodriguez: In 1228 a d
Kim Rodriguez: cho chufei, or I'm sorry, Zao.
Kim Rodriguez: We Faye wrote a large island off the African. I'm sorry. A large
Kim Rodriguez: island off of Africa that had birds
Kim Rodriguez: large enough, that their quills could be used as water reservoirs.
Kim Rodriguez: And it is thought that he was given Franz from Arafa Paul.
Kim Rodriguez: and while he remained safe in Kubla Khan.
Skeptic Psychic: Kubla Khan. Yes.
Kim Rodriguez: It said that. You know these
Kim Rodriguez: these feathers were, you know, different than a actual rock feathers.
Kim Rodriguez: Also the rock is thought to have originated from India.
Kim Rodriguez: and there is a story of a bird called Go Garuda, Whoa.
Kim Rodriguez: that carried off an elephant.
Kim Rodriguez: That was at the time battling a crocodile.
Kim Rodriguez: No one in the scientific community has ever discovered what creature Vishnu's giant eagle could have been.
Kim Rodriguez: as nothing in the fossil records have ever been discovered to date on that
Skeptic Psychic: now the rock
Skeptic Psychic: Even drawn compar comparisons to hastifer Eagle.
Skeptic Psychic: an ancient eagle that went extinct in Fifth. In the fifteenth century, New Zealand, which boasted a 10 foot Wingspan.
Skeptic Psychic: or the Mararie legend of the Tihaq way. The Marari. Legendary creature, however, was not, was said in the
Skeptic Psychic: huge and widely colorful which descendants to earth.
to be carried off by humans to eat.
Skeptic Psychic: Its cry occasionally heard, not only was seen by unfortunate victims. While the tikara
Skeptic Psychic: theory, however, it was discovered at the 1988
Skeptic Psychic: that a local they snipe bird, would create an unusually loud roaring sound
Skeptic Psychic: with the tails. When fighting another male for the chance to mate.
Skeptic Psychic: it is now generally believed that the loud noises is why the malaria only heard the noise, but never witnessed the enormous bird they believed to be seen inside
Skeptic Psychic: and be able to make the sound.
Kim Rodriguez: Now griffins
Kim Rodriguez: had the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.
and these were first mentioned in Greek mythology.
Kim Rodriguez: How's Griffendo? Or Sorry
Kim Rodriguez: off topic.
Kim Rodriguez: And these were the guardians that protected the treasure of Apollo.
Kim Rodriguez: and it was said in some of these texts that the Griffin singular was male.
Kim Rodriguez: and he would lay his eggs in the carcasses of burrows.
Kim Rodriguez: And if you discovered the nest that it would be shown with golden nuggets, so I'm assuming that
Kim Rodriguez: the griffins were asexual.
Skeptic Psychic: I mean, if they could, if they were considered male. But they could lay eggs. We have to ask Vicky about that.
Kim Rodriguez: Yes.
Kim Rodriguez: in Dante's purgatory he uses the Griffin as a representation of Christ.
Kim Rodriguez: Given that the lion is the king of beasts, and that the eagle is the King of birds. However, before Dante's writing. the Griffin had already gone from a fierce protector to an indifferent god.
Kim Rodriguez: to a symbol of Satanism.
Kim Rodriguez: After Dante, however. griffins are now seen as a more benevolent creature. and they began to peer in royal sigiles and family crests. However.
Kim Rodriguez: Dante was not the first to write about the Griffin. as tales go all the way back to artices in seventh century BC.
Kim Rodriguez: By artists description.
Kim Rodriguez: It was a sharp, beaked, unbarking hounds of Zeus.
Kim Rodriguez: and so that would leave people to consider the Griffin to be wingless.
Kim Rodriguez: Yet Pliny the elder, who we talked about before in the first century BC.
Kim Rodriguez: First insisted that griffins not only possess wings.
Kim Rodriguez: but that they also have long ears.
Kim Rodriguez: Then we go to the Greek philosopher philosopher Apelinus
Kim Rodriguez: of China.
Kim Rodriguez: or I'm sorry, Tiana, and he wrote that not long after Pliny, that the griffins did not have wings.
Kim Rodriguez: but whether web feet and this allowed them to glide for short distances.
Kim Rodriguez: Pliny insisted that the creatures were found in Ethiopia and India.
Kim Rodriguez: and Science wondered if he somehow mixed up the lore of Griffin's with that of gold digging ants of India.
Kim Rodriguez: The ants were said to be of dog or fox sized insects. Dang! That's some big ants.
Kim Rodriguez: and they dug up gold in the sand.
Kim Rodriguez: Though these stories are considered to be from Ethiopia and transfer to India over time.
Kim Rodriguez: Then Isidore of Seville claimed
Kim Rodriguez: that
Kim Rodriguez: griffins were natural enemies to horses, as tales were already circulating at the time that ancient giants called Aramispians rode large horses that would raid Griffin's nests for their gold.
Kim Rodriguez: So it's really interesting. The different
Kim Rodriguez: ideas and thoughts that people had as to what these griffins must look like. I mean from one extreme to another. is it?
Kim Rodriguez: I might be wrong on this. You can correct me.
Kim Rodriguez: I am wrong. I'm not even gonna ask, because I know the answer is, no. So I'm gonna skip that but yeah, I went from having wings to not having wings to having web feet to being the enemy of horses. So I think people just, you know.
Kim Rodriguez: decided they wanted to go against the grain and like, Oh, well, no, you've you're wrong. It's actually this. Oh, no, you're wrong. It's actually this, it's like, Come on, people.
Kim Rodriguez: Can we agree on one thing?
Skeptic Psychic: Yep.
Skeptic Psychic: that's how was the thing. Now, why not properly worship the Chi Chilean.
Skeptic Psychic: Alecardo
Skeptic Psychic: Bird was sought by by the miners of a region like
Skeptic Psychic: a guiding star. It was considered a nocturnal bird that is incapable of fight.
Skeptic Psychic: whose wings shone at night, its metallic colors.
Skeptic Psychic: and the eyes smiling, its strange light depending on the myth. If you would follow the bird's wings, would change.
Skeptic Psychic: depending on what sort of
Skeptic Psychic: or
Skeptic Psychic: it is eaten, while others claim it was always the eyes that reflected of one's of the oar. It is recently consumed
Skeptic Psychic: in these later stories it was said that the birds wings where a coppery green
Skeptic Psychic: as he a lechant, was flightless. It was thought that the faster the Angentian ran.
Skeptic Psychic: Then there was an or in the area.
Skeptic Psychic: but if a miner was able to follow the slower Achillio without being spotted, then the bird would eventually lead him to a mineral deposit.
Skeptic Psychic: It wouldn't be hard to follow the bird with the glow of the wings
Skeptic Psychic: in the dark of the desert. But if the miner was spotted, then the italian would simply snuff out its light and escape in the assering darkness
Skeptic Psychic: and if it was not for the good hearted man. If he had a hearted heart of darkness, then the ensuro would simply read, lead you to a clip before extinguishing it, light
Skeptic Psychic: that way, fumbling in the darkness, intense darkness, the wicked minor which fit would plummet to the edge
Skeptic Psychic: and die
Skeptic Psychic: myth, those unfolded upon a real person in the tale of. After one
Skeptic Psychic: good old Ray discovered a large outcrop of silver. Back at 1832, Gordy discovered led to the Chachilian silver rush.
Kim Rodriguez: and another mythical bird that was not exactly worshipped per se was the antsu. This is an ancient Sumerian bird.
Kim Rodriguez: who, like the reverse of the griffin sport at the body of an eagle.
Kim Rodriguez: and it had the head of a lion
Kim Rodriguez: at the pre dawn time of Add Zoo. massive
Kim Rodriguez: in size and might, it managed to steal the tablet of destinies from the gods.
Kim Rodriguez: answered his great sides. The only tray that could hold his nest straddled, straddled the head of the 7 Rivers in Utu
Kim Rodriguez: the Sung. I'm sorry it shadowed the head of the 7 rivers of Utoo, which was a sun god.
Kim Rodriguez: As Anzi launched himself into flight. His wings stirred up dust. and God's thought of him as an opponent that would be difficult to kill.
Kim Rodriguez: Enlil, who was the son of one of the gods
Kim Rodriguez: followed, and Zoo, in order to bring the tablet back.
Kim Rodriguez: Most myths do agree that this minor deity battles antsu on the primordial world, primordial world meaning our world.
Kim Rodriguez: And this unleashed flood waters along with winds and storms. and
Kim Rodriguez: these all taking their part in shaping the world as it is to be
Kim Rodriguez: Enlil does manage to slay the giant bird and returns home in triumph, having the tablet.
Kim Rodriguez: But the world was already affected by an zoo.
Kim Rodriguez: And so, yeah, that was that this tale does date back around 1,200 BC.
Kim Rodriguez: And the Assyrian kings did eventually change the story of the battle to instead insert themselves as the victory of the battles. So, like most fiction, you just can't keep a bad guy down.
Skeptic Psychic: No
Kim Rodriguez: Israeli folklore eventually allowed Anzu to return from the grave as a powerful creature for the Israelis. and they did offer sacrifices to him to keep him appeased.
Skeptic Psychic: Hmm! Now let's talk about the wonderful.
Skeptic Psychic: Hoponi bird.
Skeptic Psychic: It's a real creature that is indistinct, of an appearance due to its raised crest feathers on top of its head
Skeptic Psychic: that resembles crowns.
Skeptic Psychic: These birds ranged from Egypt to large parts of Africa and even on Madagascar.
Skeptic Psychic: we've already talked about Madagascar, that's where the rock was supposed to be now the Egyptian
Skeptic Psychic: consider them as sacred. and the bird is often and depicted on walls of Tombs and
Skeptic Psychic: temples alike. it was considered a symbol of a children being the ha!
Skeptic Psychic: Sorry my eyes are getting tired.
Skeptic Psychic: Bingley. Helle! The heel heir to the fathers! And thus were approved, imported it to the royalty. The Minuan's empire in Crete, during the Bronze age.
Skeptic Psychic: had their small birds in similar way to the Egyptians. This bird was even listed, listed by name in the natura. though it considers it to be detestable bird, that is not the kosher, and therefore it is not to be eaten.
Skeptic Psychic: The reason, apparently, but that the bird was a subtle and sly with its words.
Skeptic Psychic: There's a story now that King Solomon was was rescued by the Hoopos, and gathered as the flock over his head to shade him beneath their wings. Other when he was lost in the desert.
Skeptic Psychic: Hoponos birds like the pre-islamic chituins.
Skeptic Psychic: and or hoarding countries bordering countries. Excuse me, sorry.
Skeptic Psychic: consisted of the birds sacred and Oy goddess! Too short.
Skeptic Psychic: and could be only hunted if you were given permission by the goddess, high priest, and even if you could only be attained for medicinal purposes.
Skeptic Psychic: Persia saw that the Hoopas, as a symbol of virtue by most European, considered this birds as an undesirable thief.
Skeptic Psychic: Scandinavians considered the bird of a harder harper of war. Aesthetonia had them tied to the death.
Skeptic Psychic: and the underworld, claiming, if you heard the song, it was a forefo foreshadowing mass.
Skeptic Psychic: Death. though the death could only be silver.
Skeptic Psychic: only be slither of a person's maid.
Skeptic Psychic: Arcado. neither of which would be seen as a positive.
Kim Rodriguez: interesting
Kim Rodriguez: kind of a bit blurry tonight.
Kim Rodriguez: Not a problem. You need. Glasses
Skeptic Psychic: need sleep
Kim Rodriguez: now by the medieval ages the hopo was shifted to a specifically evil bird that was used in magical spells
Kim Rodriguez: and
Kim Rodriguez: there were some spells in Germany that were called the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic.
that would often cause
Kim Rodriguez: call for a sacrifice
Kim Rodriguez: of this bird for sevening demons, or another dark magic.
Kim Rodriguez: Despite its past. The Hooper was named the National Bird of Israel in 2,008,
Kim Rodriguez: and Germany and Latvia now both include the bird in numerous coat of arms
Kim Rodriguez: the logo. Sorry it is the logo of the University of Johannesburg.
Kim Rodriguez: The bird, however, is still used in numerous locations around the world as an ingredient of folk. Medicine for a variety of health issues.
Kim Rodriguez: Its days of being worshipped has definitely not helped the species much.
Kim Rodriguez: In fact, it seems to have mostly
Kim Rodriguez: than for the bird's detriment.
Kim Rodriguez: you know, for a bird being held as worthy for being one of the only species who's young. Take care of the elderly
Kim Rodriguez: It's also damned by the same brush, seeming condemned by God upon creation.
Kim Rodriguez: Now, what is it? Sin?
Kim Rodriguez: It refuses to eat any food presented for it.
Kim Rodriguez: so it was punished to only eat the poo
Kim Rodriguez: from other animals for eternity. I guess that's how it got its name
Kim Rodriguez: of the
Kim Rodriguez: the hoop, or actually, it's hoo po! But you know I would say, hoo, poo! Since it eats the poo.
Skeptic Psychic: Well, you know, that's maybe why the it's that's a a animal that's forbidden by the Torah to eat.
Kim Rodriguez: That is very interesting, because I know that they're very
Kim Rodriguez: like. That's the reason you don't eat shell fish. Also, the pig is considered to be a very dirty animal. That's why, you know they're for their donate pork, either, so that, you know, really makes sense. To put it up there with that
Skeptic Psychic: there are also tales i'm, sorry
Kim Rodriguez: there are also tales of the Cinemugulus. This is a bird from Arabia. and it said that this giant bird would construct its nest out of cinnamon sticks. Hmm! That smells good.
Skeptic Psychic: However, nobody knew where the bird would get these sticks from.
Kim Rodriguez: The Arabians, did devise a trick to obtain the cinnamon. As the bird nested off of sheer cliffs, where climbers could not reach for this trick they would sacrifice cattle.
Kim Rodriguez: and they would cut the beasts into chunks for the birds to swoop down and eat. The theory that the weight of the meat would break the nest off the cliff. and the Radians would wait below to collect the cinnamon sticks that fell to the ground.
Kim Rodriguez: Now you can continue
Skeptic Psychic: alright. Well, let's talk about Aristotle
Skeptic Psychic: now. The birds created in the branches that topple tree
Skeptic Psychic: far above where his climber could reach, withholding the limbs snapping beneath its weight.
Skeptic Psychic: Aristotle said that these or spice collectors would instead use boughs to shoot arrows, or they would use bows to shoot arrows.
Skeptic Psychic: Did you imagine shooting a a bow
Skeptic Psychic: depends on how big the bow is?
Kim Rodriguez: These weighted arrows would cause the stay the slender branches the nest were to snap off and drop the nest down into the
Skeptic Psychic: into your hands. Pretty much pit need the elder
Skeptic Psychic: poop poo the entire theory, insisting that the tales of the sentimentated nests were given, the justified, the high cost of the spice at the market.
Skeptic Psychic: It does make you think. however, why such stories would be considered tasteful.
Skeptic Psychic: Given that birds nestings on cinnamon would certainly be unsanitary.
Skeptic Psychic: but then the practice of attaching the fanciful to product to render the most desirable, yet still full. So swing today.
Skeptic Psychic: not only can we call it marketing, but modern day marketing would have us a hard time shooting that the consumerism
would
Skeptic Psychic: with the consumers these days. Given that the modern birds avoid the scent of
Skeptic Psychic: cinnamon as well as garlic, chili and cayenne.
Skeptic Psychic: Yeah, you know, these
Skeptic Psychic: spices were often what to cook them in
Skeptic Psychic: folkler at the Scottish Highlands. Bring us the poopri.
Skeptic Psychic: a shape shifting bird that does not fly, but rather uses its wings to swim.
Skeptic Psychic: and can be found in lakes and oceans along the country's western shores.
Skeptic Psychic: It seems to often take the form of a
Skeptic Psychic: cormorant or 2, or lou. but is considered to be perhaps based on the great auk
Skeptic Psychic: which is now extinct. The ark.
Skeptic Psychic: a flightless water burg
Skeptic Psychic: died out in the nineteenth century. and we're
Skeptic Psychic: We're from the genus PIN Guinness. or the name, and the look of the birds somewhere resembles a modern-day penguin.
Skeptic Psychic: The 2 species were completely unrelated. Pigments received their names because they were vaguely resembled to the great up.
Kim Rodriguez: Interesting.
Skeptic Psychic: Yeah.
Kim Rodriguez: Now to the squats, the booberry was found of cattle.
Kim Rodriguez: and it could pull from ships also it ate otters.
Skeptic Psychic: which were abundant in the region. Oh, the poor baby otters!
Kim Rodriguez: Now, since this bird was a shape shifter, it could take on the manifestation of a water bowl or water horses. and in this form it galloped across the waters as if it were solid ground.
Kim Rodriguez: Even its hoofbeats sounded as if it was striking the earth.
Kim Rodriguez: Now mythos say in the summers it was often spotted as a large insect. it would suck the blood from the horses and other knives, stop lamps and calves. who are also a culprit. To many of the creatures untimely death.
Kim Rodriguez: The brewery had a loud bellowing call.
Kim Rodriguez: and some scholars have attributed this to a real call. who have the common bitter. This is a small but loud bird. and they were occasionally found in Scotland.
Kim Rodriguez: However, they did not natively reside there.
Kim Rodriguez: The brewery was considered a benevolent creature.
Kim Rodriguez: and one tell of his capture tells a farmer I'm sorry, tells of a farmer
and his son that were plowing afield.
Kim Rodriguez: This was on the island of Mall.
Kim Rodriguez: and that is located west of Scotland, and amongst the inner Hebrides, Lylands.
Kim Rodriguez: On this occasion the farmer and his son had 4 horses that were hitched to a PAL.
Kim Rodriguez: One of the horses threw a shoe, so the plow, the ploughing had to be haunted, halted.
Kim Rodriguez: haunted, halted
Kim Rodriguez: tomatoes. Yeah, we are told that today I do apologize. People a BD bad today.
Kim Rodriguez: words hard. So they had to plow. They had to halt the plowing, and the farmer and his son didn't notice a horse grazing nearby.
Kim Rodriguez: and so he thought it would he. I'm sorry they thought
Kim Rodriguez: they would see if it could be used as a replacement for their laying force. So it's like, Hey, Dad! Look! There's a horse over there in the pasture. Why don't we try using that one?
Kim Rodriguez: Apparently it was easy enough to capture the animal and to get it harnessed up. as it seemed to be familiar with plowing. So they continued on
Kim Rodriguez: as the plowing took them closer to a lock at the end of the field. The new horse became restless.
Kim Rodriguez: so in our in order to calm it, the farmer snapped a whip alongside the animal.
Skeptic Psychic: you know, kind of as an incentive to get back to work.
Kim Rodriguez: Yeah, I should take that whip and slap him.
Kim Rodriguez: However, to their amazement, the so called horse chick form
Kim Rodriguez: into a giant boobury. and it dove into the lock.
Kim Rodriguez: However, the new shape did fail to allow it to get out of the cornice
Skeptic Psychic: Vietnam harness.
Kim Rodriguez: So the farmer's plow and the other 3 horses were pulled in with it.
Kim Rodriguez: Horses did did not surface again.
Kim Rodriguez: The farmer and his son waited at the lock's edge for 7 h.
Kim Rodriguez: and you know sadly their horses did demise
Skeptic Psychic: right now. The boobery however, also have a feature testimonial
Skeptic Psychic: positivity in the sometimes John Campbell of Isley. a specialist in Celtic studies back in the mid 18 hundreds, shared a
Skeptic Psychic: tail of a booby who had taken form of a bull.
Kim Rodriguez: a boobri, not a booby.
Skeptic Psychic: a ruby
Kim Rodriguez: boobree. We don't. We're not talking about boobies here.
Skeptic Psychic: Yes, they're very nice birds
Skeptic Psychic: now. The the animal was wounded and was standing beside a lock in Argyll, where it was found by young men who nursed it back to health.
Skeptic Psychic: A few months later, after finding the pull and his return to health, the young man's girlfriend was attacked by a former boyfriend alongside the lock.
Skeptic Psychic: The water boil, appeared and knocked him, knocked the attacker over. then knelt as the frightened girl could climb on to its back.
Skeptic Psychic: He carried her to safety and then disappeared that night, not to be seen again.
Skeptic Psychic: The fate of the World Bowl translation from original Gaelic claims that the poor beast
Skeptic Psychic: had been a Boobury under the spell of a bondage that it kept trapped in the water. But from the 300 years, thanks to young man's healing it, repayment by saving the maiden
Skeptic Psychic: from the water. That the water bowl now revealed to be a blueberry, was freed from its landscape, and once again his presence.
Skeptic Psychic: if, of course the blue bring was not a creation to be worshipped or considered sacred. It is certainly a superstition that still stirs today in the Scottish folklore.
Kim Rodriguez: Now we go on to Persia.
Kim Rodriguez: Which I just recently found out was historical Germany.
Kim Rodriguez: But I digress.
Kim Rodriguez: The Persian mythos holds that the chamrush is a large bird that lives on the summit of Mount Albros.
Kim Rodriguez: the Ying to Chamois's Yank.
Kim Rodriguez: I'm sorry.
Kim Rodriguez: Let me start that over. The Persian mythos holds that the Chamroch is a large word that lives on a summit of mouth.
Kim Rodriguez: Aberos.
Kim Rodriguez: and it has a command companion in Amroch.
Kim Rodriguez: a simmer that is the Ying to Shimashus, the Yank
Kim Rodriguez: Chamrush lives beneath a Soma tree and has the body of a dog and the head of an eagle.
Kim Rodriguez: while Amrush nests in the Soma tree and has the head of a dog
Kim Rodriguez: and the body of an eagle.
Kim Rodriguez: So I guess maybe it's like a kind of weird thing where something happened in the dog and the eagle were together, and then you know, it split into 2 creatures.
Skeptic Psychic: Hmm! Maybe
Kim Rodriguez: the Creator! I'll rust
Kim Rodriguez: placed the Selma tree along the seashore of the Sea of Verook
Kim Rodriguez: Kasha, and then created Chamroash and Amrosh to fulfill a sacred duty.
Kim Rodriguez: Now both of these birds are immortal, immortal.
and their duty is to the tree and its unusual crop.
Kim Rodriguez: Every year the tree gains a thousand new branches that grow all of the seeds of the world.
Kim Rodriguez: As these seeds ripen and Rush sits on each branch in turn.
Kim Rodriguez: and they will shake the tree
Kim Rodriguez: and dropping the seeds to the ground. Now Shadrash's task is to strike the seeds from the ground with his wings. and this knocks them into the sea.
Kim Rodriguez: The seeds are then drawn from the sea into the clouds.
Kim Rodriguez: and which rain
Kim Rodriguez: comes down with the seeds to earth in their proper places.
Kim Rodriguez: There are, as we have pointed out, earlier, several birds that are held up in myth, not worship. but as an example of punishment for the wicked doings.
Kim Rodriguez: The Greeks originated the myth of the string or strychs. depending on which version you come across.
Kim Rodriguez: And this myth did find its way to the Roman belief system.
Kim Rodriguez: and then into the Middle Ages. Religious zeal
Kim Rodriguez: tell us about the strange.
Skeptic Psychic: Yeah. The strange were originally said to have been
Skeptic Psychic: 2 brothers who were cursed to become wild animalists for having killed and eaten a fellow man.
Woo cannibals.
Skeptic Psychic: once you become a sage, you're condemned to a life of being upside down, unable to eat food or drink, and we're blamed for all series. And just despair
Skeptic Psychic: Despairing cries heard from the night.
Skeptic Psychic: Some mythos, like in the string with vampires, are witches. Oh, that's interesting, because the Italian word for vampire is Stringoli, which is very similar to string
Skeptic Psychic: right? Others came to that the strange to be birds of prey during the day, and then which at night.
Skeptic Psychic: It isn't a bird of prey to fear, but the witch.
Skeptic Psychic: as it is said that when she strangles children and drains them of her's blood.
Skeptic Psychic: boy they don't like, which is too much there, much the same as the vampire. The witch can be detained by making amulet out of garlic to wear around their neck.
Skeptic Psychic: Plenty. of course.
Skeptic Psychic: had to weigh in on this myth, describing them as real creatures, but admits that he doesn't know much about them and their story.
Skeptic Psychic: but the time the string hit the Middle Ages they had transitioned from damned to their own actions for being servants of the devil.
Skeptic Psychic: But then, of course. there are many more sacred animals that could easily work. We can cover.
Skeptic Psychic: and another man's nightmares.
Skeptic Psychic: Are there stories of birds that you, from your own religion, culture, or ethnicity, that hold a place in your heart. feel free to comment as we should be able to
Skeptic Psychic: loved a team of more beliefs like this around the world.
Kim Rodriguez: Now, I know one that we didn't. Cover comes from the Mexican culture, which is the owl
Kim Rodriguez: the. And basically in that belief. It said, an app an Al is actually a witch and bird form.
Kim Rodriguez: it's really fascinating. I would love to to talk about that in
Kim Rodriguez: future episodes if we can do that. But yeah, that's what I know locally in my area. but I digress. We've gone through
Kim Rodriguez: the second half. Yes, and you had promised last week that you would inform us all who your fa, what your favorite
Kim Rodriguez: mythical, sacred bird is
Skeptic Psychic: the rock?
Kim Rodriguez: How did I know
Skeptic Psychic: I had a feeling you were going to say the rock
Kim Rodriguez: interesting. I'm psychic.
Skeptic Psychic: No, you just know me very well. That could be it, too.
Kim Rodriguez: But I digress. This does conclude part 2 of our sacred birds. We do ask that you like, and subscribe, and again leave a comment, letting us know which bird you like the best, or
Kim Rodriguez: if there's a bird we didn't cover from your culture again, let us know in the comments. and with that we look forward to next week.
We're gonna go a little more into the spookiness of next week, so make sure you look forward to that. Be talking more about haunting. So I'm excited. I'm not gonna say what we're gonna talk about, really, that
Kim Rodriguez: you know, as a surprise to get you to listen in. But I'm super excited about next week's topic. Anything else you'd like to add tonight before we close off this episode.
Yes, I just wanted to say that we do really enjoy your comments. Send us some.
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