Bird Medicine by Evan T. Pritchard

Bird Medicine by Evan T. Pritchard

Author:Evan T. Pritchard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Native American/Shamanism
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2002-01-02T00:00:00+00:00


Rockin’ Robin

Robins can be warning birds, too. On June 23, 2010, Monique Renaud, an officer of the Alliance Metis de Quebec, was conducting a healing session with a client in Gatineau, when they both heard a most unusual robin song, one that went on and on. Though quite tuneful, it was so unusual that they both ran to the window to see what was wrong. There they found a lone red breast sitting on a clothesline tree near the house, one that Monique had never seen a bird sit on before, as it was so close to the building. The singer was looking at them and at the house in general and was belting out a loud, high-pitched melody that seemed endless in variation, as if there was a long message in it. The man exclaimed, “It’s saying there will be rain! That’s a rain song!”

Monique thought, “If that’s a rain song, there’s going to be quite a deluge,” and yet when she looked up to the sky for thunderheads, she noticed that the sky was completely clear and sunny. This didn’t make sense. Monique said, “I’m going to remember that song. It must be some kind of warning!”

The tiny little thunderbird lifted up its wings and fled, leaving the two puzzled humans in a state of alarm. Immediately, the earth began to shake violently, and the floor heaved up and down in the house where they were standing. The walls rolled in and out, and shelves tossed objects onto the floor, as framed paintings rocked from side to side. The earth made a sound like a hundred jackhammers with the volume turned up high, and it seemed to go on forever without stopping. That drum roll officially lasted only seventeen seconds, but in fact it seemed to Monique and her friend to go on for ten minutes, as they ran for the door frame and held their breath. When the mayhem finally stopped, Monique quipped, “I’m going to pay more attention to bird signs from now on!”42

That earthquake was first estimated at 6.0 on the Richter scale, but later lowered to 5.0. Nonetheless, it was felt as far away as Chicago, Boston, and even New York. The bird was successful in getting them to come to the window but not to leave the building. The robin modeled the appropriate action by fleeing the scene, but sometimes interspecies communication isn’t easy and things get lost in translation.



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