I was sitting outside when a Raven flew overhead. I felt some thing hit my head (at first I thought the thign pooped on me). When I reached up to feel what hit me, a feather fell on my lap.
I was curious to know if this has some meaning.
2007-06-04 07:17:49 · 6 answers · asked by Sherry 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Micheal N--I like the tale. Hope the raven wasn't saying I am a theif!
2007-06-04 07:33:31 · update #1
Now I am scared! I sure hope that it is not a eally bad omen!
Thanks everyone
2007-06-04 08:14:26 · update #2
Maybe the Raven stole the feather and was trying to ditch the evidence??? :)
LONG, long ago the raven's feathers were white as snow. He was a beautiful bird, but the other birds did not like him because he was a thief. When they saw him coming, they would hide away the things that they cared for most, but in some marvelous way he always found them and took them to his nest in the pine-tree.
One morning the raven heard a little bird singing merrily in a thicket. The leaves of the trees were dark green, and the little bird's yellow feathers looked like sunshine among them.
"I will have that bird," said the raven, and he seized the trembling little thing.
The yellow bird fluttered and cried, "Help, help! Will no one come and help me!"
The other birds happened to be far away, and not one heard her cries. "The raven will kill me," she called. "Help, help!"
Now hidden in the bark of a tree was a wood-worm.
"I am only a wood-worm," he said to himself, "and I cannot fly like a bird, but the yellow bird has been good to me, and I will do what I can to help her."
When the sun set, the raven went to sleep. Then the wood-worm made his way softly up the pine-tree to the raven's nest, and bound his feet together with grass and pieces of birch-bark.
"Fly away," whispered the wood-worm softly to the little yellow bird, "and come to see me by and by. I must teach the raven not to be cruel to the other birds."
The little yellow bird flew away, and the wood-worm brought twigs, and moss, and birch-bark, and grass, and put them around the tree. Then he set them all on fire. Up the great pine-tree went the flames, leaping from bough to bough.
"Fire! fire " cried the raven. "Come and help me My nest is on fire!"
The other birds were not sorry to see him flutter. "He is a thief," said they. "Let him be in the fire."
By and by the fire burned the grass and the pieces of birch-bark that fastened his feet together, and the raven flew away. He was not burned, but he could no longer be proud of his shining white feathers, for the smoke had made every one of them as black as night.
2007-06-04 07:23:32 · answer #1 · answered by Michael N 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Raven Feather Meaning
2016-11-14 05:44:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raven's are my personal totem animal. That and Spider. I have a lot of Native American Aquanitences and when I met most of them for the first time nd told them this fact, they all took a step back and said "I'm sorry, maybe you'll get new onces". Alas, we are stuck with one another.
Now, it could mean you were fortunate enough to get a cool feather for your collection.
However, have spent every day of my life surrounded by crows -(they always hang out in my yard, land in the street beside me - follow me in parks) I think you are being warned. Hold on to that feather for dear life. It's a good luck token and was given to you to ward off some future bad luck. (and they don't usaully show up if your going to break a nail...) Or as a symbol that God, the Universe, the Divine Consciousness - whatever has a message for you. And as wonderful as the message might be, they are never particularly easy to deal with (ask Buddha, Moses, Christ or Mohammad). It might be a small and personal message, it might be something quite profound that you want to share. Anyway, a Raven is the Messenger of the All Father. Keep that feather. Say thankyou for it.
2007-06-04 07:49:46 · answer #3 · answered by Cindy H 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm with Ronin on this one. A raven's feather is a sign of unexpected good fortune coming to you. In Tlinget mythology the raven is a beneficial trickster figure who saved man from the deluge, taught him to survive, and stole the light (sun, moon, and stars) from the "old man". It was escaping from the "old man's" house throught the smoke hole that turned his white feathers black. So to find a raven's feather is a lucky find, but the luck may come in some uncommon way, or be the good that comes out of something bad.
2007-06-04 07:36:24 · answer #4 · answered by E J 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
RE:
What does it mean when a raven's feather falls on you?
I was sitting outside when a Raven flew overhead. I felt some thing hit my head (at first I thought the thign pooped on me). When I reached up to feel what hit me, a feather fell on my lap.
I was curious to know if this has some meaning.
2015-08-02 02:56:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a raven with one less feather
2007-06-04 07:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by meanpressure0 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That you're lucky. Birds normally drop much nastier stuff.
2007-06-04 08:53:31 · answer #7 · answered by The Forgotten 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's good luck.
2007-06-04 07:25:28 · answer #8 · answered by Ronin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stick the Feather in your Cap!
(and call it macaroni)
2007-06-04 10:34:38 · answer #9 · answered by Ard-Drui 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means you should PayPal me everything in your bank account.
Seriously.
2007-06-04 07:21:02 · answer #10 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋