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The Gaelic Names of Birds. 43
Nicolson says— " Tliat is, knowledge more than is natural. The
raven was believed to possess supernatural knowledge, and of
coming events in particular. This was also the Norse belief. Odin
was said to have two ravens which connnunicated everything to
him." There was also an old Highland su})erstition that the
young ravens killed the old ones, which is the origin of one of the
Ijitterest wishes or curses in the