Cawing in the dim light, the crow stirs unease through the village lanes. In the Song era, people believed cr…
Cawing in the dim light, the crow stirs unease through the village lanes.
In the Song era, people believed crows could sense what others could not, foretelling fortune or calamity with their cries. When a crow cawed at something strange, they called it "crying at the unusual." Yet such cries were more often followed by misfortune than blessing, and so, with time, the crow became known as a bearer of bad luck.