Here are a few cultures bits about crows from a village in Northern India.
- If a crows is sitting near your house and screaming, you are about to get guests or visitors.
- During monsoon time, a whole month is devoted to feed your ancestors. We put food out on leafs (banana is hard to find, peepal or turai squash leaf does the job). It's mostly eaten by crows. It is believed that ancestors visit you back as crows.
I never saw local crows doing extraordinary "smart things". They were very good at stealing food: especially butter during winter. But never heard about a crow opening a latch.
While nesting, they will dip a dry branch in water to make it soft so that they can bend it without breaking when making nest.
I never liked crows as kids. They would often kill small squirrels (chipmunks rather) and sparrows whom I liked very much -- though rarely.
- If a crows is sitting near your house and screaming, you are about to get guests or visitors.
- During monsoon time, a whole month is devoted to feed your ancestors. We put food out on leafs (banana is hard to find, peepal or turai squash leaf does the job). It's mostly eaten by crows. It is believed that ancestors visit you back as crows.
I never saw local crows doing extraordinary "smart things". They were very good at stealing food: especially butter during winter. But never heard about a crow opening a latch.
While nesting, they will dip a dry branch in water to make it soft so that they can bend it without breaking when making nest.
I never liked crows as kids. They would often kill small squirrels (chipmunks rather) and sparrows whom I liked very much -- though rarely.