If you was awakened a dark stormy night with a rasping sound on your bedroom window?

Question

to find out it was a large raven.How would you react?

Answer 1

honored!
the raven is one of the most intelligent birds


--"tales say that ravens will hunt with wolves
and share the kill with them

--"once paired, ravens mate for life

--the raven is "strongly associated with storms and floods...

"perhaps the best known is the description of the raven's role on Noah's ark during the flood depicted in Genesis.
In this story the raven is sent off by Noah to see whether or not the waters have subsided—but the raven never returns.

"there are stories from North America which closely parallel the earlier Babylonian associations of flood and raven.
"the Algonquin Indians relate a myth which was recorded in 1634 describing how the sun was hunting with wolves when he entered a lake. The lake overflowed and submerged the world. The sun then asked the raven to search out some dry land to make the world again, but the raven could not find any.

--"to kill a raven is very bad luck

--"in Swedish folklore, ravens are the ghosts of murdered individuals who have not had a proper Christian burial,
--and in Germany, ravens were thought to be damned souls"

....above quotes by mark schwan
in "alaska fish and game"


--"in medieval times ravens represented virility.

--"among native cultures, Raven is the 'trickster' spirit,
--"a popular totem,
--"and the creator of man, who placed the Sun in the sky."
...quote from: "the aviary"


--"you can not imprint a raven completely,
regardless of how you get them. A friend of mine raised some from the egg and even so, they took mates and moved back out into the wild."
--"have you ever seen a raven try to comfort a small child in tears? They do it with children that they consider family members. Few people have witnessed this behavior. I have seen it more than once while raising our girls. That is a complex emotion if ever there was. How is it that a bird can recognize the emotional needs of a human and react accordingly?"
....above quotes by christine tarski
in: "a glimpse into the world of ravens"


ravens represent both, death and life
and it'd be great!
to have one visit

Answer 2

in step with risk it is your mom and pop in the different room. LOL. in case you do no longer stay with all of us, then it rather is a secret. feels like an enticing concern. you're conscious of the supernatural precise? You greater powerful have self belief it cuz it rather is there. i realize it for a actuality from my studies. do no longer concern approximately it. There are spirits all around us. they by using risk uncovered themselves. They have been in all probability guffawing approximately that query somebody published up there approximately what share farts could it take to pollute the international.

Answer 3

That's happened to me a few times. No biggie. If it's above freezing I open the window and give it a piece of bread. If it's below freezing I just ignore him. Ravens are very smart.

Answer 4

I would be very realived but be mad at the bird for scaring me,but what can the bird do?nada!
did that make sence?!

Answer 5

Hide under the covers and cry!

Answer 6

With great astonishment; He finally came, Now I know my life will change..

Answer 7

I would be freaked out

Answer 8

I would scare it away. I wouldn't think nothing of it.

Answer 9

I would be mad cause a freakin raven woke me up while i was ****in asleep!!!!!!

Answer 10

I would give it food then shoot it with ma beebee gun.