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Crows In The Twa Corbies

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We crows have been seen as malicious creatures for centuries. One example is in “The Twa Corbies.” In the ballad, two crows are talking about how they will feast on a dead knight, and even though this is how we obtain food, humans sees this as cruel. The way the author describes us makes us sound sinister and vicious even though we aren’t. We are just doing what we are born to do, but humans don’t understand that, they don’t understand that this is a means of survival. They are so appalled by us that they even call us a “murder of crows.” This is because we eat the dead; we are scavengers, it’s what we do. But humans are disgusted by this. They don’t understand that this is nature, that when things die, other animals eat it to clean the Earth.
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