Motopsychoz MC’s Black Bird Crew

All Members of MPMC that knew our fallen Brother J-bird are know as The Black Bird Crew.

Why Do People Fear Ravens, Crows and Black Birds?

Their black color, associated with the powers of darkness in many cultures, is the most persistent reason that crows are linked to evil and death, but there are other things about these birds that inspire horror:

Both ravens and crows eat carrion dead animals, including humans left in the open. They are familiar visitors to battlefields.

They tend to go first for the soft eyes of carrion, moving on to other soft tissues. Crows in particular don’t have strong enough beaks to break through intact skin.

Both ravens and crows can learn to imitate human speech.

Crows gather in large roosts, sometimes including millions of birds. Their rustling, noisy presence, blanketing groups of trees is an unnerving sight.

Neither bird is a beautiful songster; both produce a variety of rather harsh and sometimes disturbing noises.

Myths and Superstitions about Black Birds

There are many dark superstitions about Black Birds involving ghosts, fairies, the Devil, witches and death:

In Germany, Ravens were thought to be able to find the souls of the dead, and contain the souls of the damned. Witches rode on ravens.

Swedes believed the croaking calls of ravens were the voices of murdered people who had not been properly buried.

An Irish superstition said crows were fairies, bent on malicious mischief.

In England, six ravens are kept in the Tower of London: the legend says that if anything should befall them, the country will be invaded.

European tradition has it that both crows and ravens are birds of the Devil, and that all birds in this family descend into Hell annually while they are molting to give feathers to the Devil.

A crow or raven on the roof foretells death or misfortune to the home’s inhabitants; a raven on the church steeple is bad news for the entire community.

The Truth about Black Birds

The connection between these birds and carrion is well earned. Both are known to occasionally attack and kill live small animals as well, hence the “unkindness of ravens,” and the “murder of crows,” both phrases used to describe flocks of these birds. A similar phrase, “a parliament of crows” arises from the apparent crow habit of mobbing and killing members of their own kind. In reality, however, they eat many other foods, including berries, insects, grain, earthworms etc. When they do eat carrion, their scavenging ways help clean up dead animals.

Both crows and ravens are among the most intelligent birds, capable of cooperation amongst themselves and some tool use. Both have been domesticated by people. If they were a different color, we’d probably like them. 

 

Native Beliefs

Raven and black bird, like Mink and Coyote and other spirit beings of the Northwest mythology, was as fickle and unpredictable as nature and its seasons. Raven was a shape changer, who could assume any form – human or animal. Raven was a glutton and trickster, but he showed pity for the naked people he found in a giant clamshell. His trickery brought them the essentials for existence in a harsh world, game and fish and fowl, fire, clothing, shelter, and with them the rituals that would protect them from the dark spirits lurking about.  

Ravens are known as the ‘keeper of secrets’ in several native tribes, and are the teachers of mysticism. They have been wrapped in a wealth of myth and lore throughout many cultures and ages. Their black color and diet of dead associates them with the vast void of darkness, which is representative of the unconscious. Raven flies to us with heightened awareness and greater understanding of our consciousness. It is with this new perception that we begin seeing into the hearts of others and experience their feelings. Raven asks us to experience the transformation it brings within our multidimensional self, and be reunited with the mysteries of the universe so we can expel our inner demons.

Black Bird Meaning

‘Blackbird’ means ‘Gateway’. This bird teaches us that standing in a gateway without action are a denial of our responsibility, our power. Its call beckons us to become more self-aware to see the ways we can discover more of our hidden potentials, our motivations, to seek spiritual truths. In discovering new depths of self, we discover new ways of healing.

The song of the blackbird is varied and unmistakable; it is most often heard in those magical twilight times of dawn and dusk. They are associated with existing in dream time where ‘time’ does not exist. It teaches us the song of balance, to regenerate within and without. The blackbird ride upon the winds of change, teaches us of camouflage, a door is open, will you take it…?

 

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